2025 Compare Cities Rankings:
Hillsboro, OR vs Watertown Town, MA

#1 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#2 America's Top Hygge Cities

#2 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#2 America’s Best Cities for Foodies

#2 Gloomiest Places in America

#3 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#4 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#4 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#5 Best States for LGBTQ Rights

#5 Metro Areas with Fastest Rising Income 2020

#6 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (100 Largest Metro Areas)

#6 Safest Cities for Families with Young Children

#7 America's Most Playful Cities

#8 Best US Cities for Seniors 2011

#9 Most Secure Large Cities in the U.S.

#10 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#11 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#11 Wrinkle Ranking Cities Most at Risk for Skin Damage by 2040

#12 2005 Best Places to Live

#13 America’s Least Manly Cities

#15 America’s Best (and Worst) Cities for Dating

#16 High Gas Prices - Which Cities are Hit the Hardest?

#16 Healthiest Cities

#16 Best Cities for Teleworking - Large Metro Areas

#17 Best Block Party Places

#20 Stressful Cities 2012

#20 Best Baseball Cities

#23 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#23 Failure To Lunch

#26 Best Airports to Make a Connection

#27 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#27 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#35 Most Energetic Cities

#37 Hypertension Hot Spots

#37 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#39 The Most Single Cities

#40 Sleepless Cities 2011

#40 Best Green Cities

#43 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#47 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#47 America’s Manliest Cities

#49 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#50 Second Annual “America’s Manliest Cities” Rankings

#51 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#70 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#71 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#76 2005 High Gas Prices

#82 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#1 Safest Cities for Families with Young Children

#1 Most Difficult Cities to Navigate

#1 Most Competitive Private Colleges

#2 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#2 Best Cities for Teleworking - Extra Large Metro Areas

#2 Best US Cities for Seniors 2011

#2 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#3 America’s Least Manly Cities

#4 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Mid-Size Metro Areas)

#4 The Most Single Cities

#5 Most Secure Large Cities in the U.S.

#5 Most Energetic Cities

#6 America's Most Playful Cities

#7 America’s Best Cities for Foodies

#7 Metro Areas with Fastest Rising Income 2020

#8 America's Top Hygge Cities

#8 Best States for LGBTQ Rights

#8 Best Airports to Make a Connection

#8 Sleep in the City Study

#9 Best Cities for Seniors 2005

#9 America's Top Hygge Cities

#10 Gloomiest Places in America

#11 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#11 Healthiest Cities

#12 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep

#12 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#13 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Large Metro Areas)

#13 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#15 Best Baseball Cities

#15 Wrinkle Ranking Cities Most at Risk for Skin Damage by 2040

#19 Failure To Lunch

#19 2005 High Gas Prices

#20 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#20 Sleepless Cities 2011

#22 Best Block Party Places

#24 Sperlings Skincare Wrinkle Ranking

#24 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#26 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#31 Second Annual “America’s Manliest Cities” Rankings

#33 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#35 Stressful Cities 2012

#38 America’s Manliest Cities

#40 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#41 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#42 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#43 Hypertension Hot Spots

#45 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#49 High Gas Prices - Which Cities are Hit the Hardest?

#63 America’s Best (and Worst) Cities for Dating

#64 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#67 Best Green Cities

#71 2005 Best Places to Live

#77 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (100 Largest Metro Areas)

#108 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#121 Best Green Cities

Hillsboro is definitely an improvement over Portland Oregon which went from a beautiful city to a major dump full of homelessness, garbage and crime. We had lived in  More

I've lived in HIllsboro twice. It is a very diverse part of Portland with tons of immigrants and the best rural flare in the  More

We lived here for seven years. What we loved about it was it was close to family; everything was close for doctors, shopping, libraries, parks,etc; and much was in  More

I’ve lived in Watertown for 3½ years after living in Cambridge. It’s slightly further out and could use a couple more MBTA bus lines to make being car-free easier  More

Watertown has "small town charm" in abundance despite literally sharing borders with both Boston and  More

I first lived in Watertown several years ago as fresh college grad, and now I've been here again for 2 years with my husband and son. In both instances, I've loved it.   More