2025 Compare Cities Health:
Battle Creek, MI vs Portage, MI

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Highlights
- There are 275 physicians per 100,000 people in Portage.
- There are 157 physicians per 100,000 people in Battle Creek.
- The US average is 210 physicians per 100,000 people.
 Battle Creek, MIPortage, MIUnited States
 Air Quality (100=best)  Unlock6858.4
 Water Quality (100=best)72  Unlock55
 Superfund Sites (100=best)  Unlock72.486.9
 Physicians per Cap.157  Unlock210
 Health Cost  Unlock90100
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Reviews for Battle Creek    11 Reviews

Over 13 years ago

you need to really pay attention to the neighborhood you select. There are some great older neighborhoods with fantastic houses in the city, but those might only be one  More

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Over 13 years ago

Battle Creek is moderately ok in the summer months but any other time it is cold or cloudy and unpleasant. You better have warm clothes to survive the cold winter that  More

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Over 16 years ago

Battle Creek is a great place to raise a family. Sometimes hard to get people to move here but once here nobody wants to leave. Summers are absolutely beautiful. Yes  More

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Reviews for Portage    3 Reviews

I'm just writing because I think that the people who are in my opinion bashing Kalamazoo, really don't know anything about it. I have vacationed in much larger cities,  More

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Before I moved to Portage in 2007, I didn't have any real breathing problems. I had a minor case of hay fever. I moved here and I am stuck inside most of the summer  More

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Over 20 years ago

Portage is a nice palce to live and raise a family. I don't think it would be a good place for a single  More

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