2025 Compare Cities Rankings:
Meriden, CT vs Mobile, AL

#2 Most Competitive Private Colleges

#6 Best Cities for Teleworking - Medium Metro Areas

#17 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#17 2005 High Gas Prices

#20 Most Secure Places to Live in the U.S. (Large Metro Areas)

#20 The Most Single Cities

#22 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

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

#31 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

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

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

#62 Drought-Riskiest Cities

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

#109 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#149 2005 Best Places to Live

#207 Best Green Cities

#312 2005 Best Places to Live

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

#20 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#174 2005 Best Places to Live

#365 Best Green Cities

I was born and raise in Meriden, CT. Meriden has gotten way worse. Don't move to Meriden.  More

Don't move to Meriden. Lived here most of my life and I am moving out. Crime is on the rise and few employment opportunities. A very disjointed population that cares  More

Traffic patterns and constant disrepair tend to make for long and aggravating commutes. While there are employment gains the quality of the work is significantly  More

Avoid at all costs weak job market bad schools discrimnation of disabled in workplace and schools , I have lived here most of my life and have been trying to get out  More

someone freshly graduated from high school with no work experience can pick up a serving job and make more hourly than someone who works in an entry level healthcare  More

I lived in that City for almost 12 years I have nothing good to say about it I have nothing bad to say about it People especially the cops some cricket wrong doing  More