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Best Cities for Seniors - complete list
(Note: scores indicate percentile rankings within each category; 100 is highest, 1 is lowest)
|
Metro area |
Health |
Trans. |
Housing |
Social |
Crime |
Envir. |
Econ. |
Disease |
Spiritual |
1 |
Portland-Vancouver, OR-WA |
97 |
81 |
46 |
53 |
44 |
40 |
85 |
59 |
34 |
2 |
Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA |
100 |
73 |
36 |
38 |
46 |
97 |
32 |
77 |
28 |
3 |
San Francisco, CA |
69 |
100 |
4 |
48 |
73 |
100 |
28 |
81 |
18 |
4 |
Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI |
93 |
97 |
42 |
55 |
65 |
77 |
79 |
44 |
57 |
5 |
Pittsburgh, PA |
12 |
93 |
85 |
89 |
91 |
57 |
51 |
20 |
97 |
6 |
Philadelphia, PA-NJ |
59 |
53 |
40 |
95 |
83 |
4 |
38 |
16 |
69 |
7 |
Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN |
95 |
36 |
77 |
61 |
57 |
10 |
34 |
10 |
83 |
8 |
New York, NY |
1 |
95 |
10 |
100 |
87 |
63 |
1 |
36 |
46 |
9 |
Boston, MA-NH-ME |
38 |
85 |
12 |
93 |
89 |
67 |
81 |
55 |
79 |
10 |
Chicago, IL |
6 |
79 |
30 |
97 |
42 |
28 |
10 |
30 |
44 |
11 |
Detroit, MI |
61 |
12 |
93 |
85 |
48 |
53 |
12 |
1 |
20 |
12 |
Cleveland-Lorain-Elyria, OH |
46 |
48 |
87 |
81 |
79 |
55 |
6 |
18 |
77 |
13 |
Salt Lake City-Ogden, UT |
81 |
63 |
95 |
2 |
61 |
85 |
71 |
97 |
100 |
14 |
Indianapolis, IN |
89 |
8 |
91 |
42 |
71 |
8 |
48 |
4 |
75 |
15 |
Kansas City, MO-KS |
83 |
14 |
73 |
65 |
4 |
6 |
16 |
57 |
89 |
16 |
New Orleans, LA |
44 |
24 |
100 |
36 |
28 |
48 |
8 |
2 |
42 |
17 |
Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA |
10 |
61 |
26 |
91 |
67 |
44 |
4 |
63 |
40 |
18 |
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI |
53 |
77 |
32 |
77 |
75 |
89 |
69 |
93 |
65 |
19 |
Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point, NC |
85 |
6 |
89 |
32 |
36 |
22 |
53 |
38 |
93 |
20 |
Denver, CO |
40 |
75 |
63 |
51 |
51 |
65 |
42 |
95 |
16 |
|
Metro area |
Health |
Trans. |
Housing |
Social |
Crime |
Envir. |
Econ. |
Disease |
Spiritual |
21 |
Houston, TX |
24 |
91 |
61 |
30 |
20 |
1 |
26 |
24 |
36 |
22 |
St. Louis, MO-IL |
28 |
32 |
79 |
73 |
22 |
20 |
63 |
28 |
87 |
23 |
Providence-Fall River-Warwick, RI-MA |
63 |
71 |
28 |
67 |
85 |
51 |
40 |
46 |
67 |
24 |
Nashville, TN |
71 |
4 |
97 |
22 |
16 |
46 |
44 |
34 |
95 |
25 |
Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV |
34 |
57 |
24 |
87 |
69 |
73 |
100 |
83 |
55 |
26 |
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC |
91 |
10 |
67 |
10 |
38 |
26 |
93 |
79 |
81 |
27 |
Columbus, OH |
65 |
22 |
65 |
40 |
18 |
32 |
24 |
6 |
48 |
28 |
San Diego, CA |
79 |
46 |
18 |
59 |
77 |
81 |
67 |
75 |
10 |
29 |
Austin-San Marcos, TX |
87 |
51 |
44 |
1 |
63 |
59 |
55 |
85 |
51 |
30 |
Orlando, FL |
51 |
59 |
57 |
26 |
12 |
34 |
83 |
67 |
32 |
31 |
San Antonio, TX |
57 |
55 |
75 |
4 |
2 |
42 |
59 |
61 |
71 |
32 |
Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News, VA-NC |
67 |
18 |
69 |
16 |
53 |
83 |
95 |
8 |
30 |
33 |
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL |
14 |
30 |
59 |
75 |
8 |
71 |
87 |
69 |
26 |
34 |
Newark, NJ |
18 |
83 |
6 |
79 |
81 |
38 |
57 |
22 |
59 |
35 |
Phoenix-Mesa, AZ |
22 |
34 |
81 |
34 |
6 |
79 |
73 |
89 |
22 |
36 |
Atlanta, GA |
16 |
20 |
55 |
69 |
40 |
2 |
65 |
40 |
53 |
37 |
Fort Worth-Arlington, TX |
55 |
2 |
83 |
8 |
24 |
24 |
22 |
32 |
73 |
38 |
San Jose, CA |
73 |
89 |
8 |
6 |
93 |
69 |
2 |
100 |
8 |
39 |
Baltimore, MD |
26 |
40 |
20 |
71 |
26 |
95 |
91 |
14 |
38 |
40 |
Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC |
48 |
1 |
71 |
28 |
10 |
12 |
46 |
53 |
91 |
41 |
Fort Lauderdale, FL |
32 |
87 |
34 |
18 |
55 |
18 |
77 |
42 |
4 |
42 |
Las Vegas, NV-AZ |
36 |
65 |
51 |
12 |
30 |
91 |
97 |
12 |
1 |
43 |
Oakland, CA |
77 |
26 |
14 |
46 |
32 |
14 |
14 |
65 |
14 |
44 |
Dallas, TX |
20 |
38 |
53 |
57 |
12 |
16 |
20 |
51 |
63 |
45 |
Orange County, CA |
75 |
28 |
16 |
20 |
95 |
61 |
75 |
91 |
6 |
46 |
Sacramento, CA |
42 |
44 |
38 |
14 |
34 |
87 |
18 |
48 |
12 |
47 |
Riverside-San Bernardino, CA |
30 |
16 |
48 |
24 |
59 |
30 |
36 |
26 |
24 |
48 |
Nassau-Suffolk, NY |
2 |
67 |
1 |
83 |
100 |
93 |
30 |
73 |
61 |
49 |
Miami, FL |
4 |
69 |
22 |
44 |
1 |
75 |
89 |
87 |
2 |
50 |
Bergen-Passaic, NJ |
8 |
42 |
2 |
63 |
97 |
36 |
61 |
71 |
85 |
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Metro area |
Health |
Trans. |
Housing |
Social |
Crime |
Envir. |
Econ. |
Disease |
Spiritual |