2025 Compare Cities Health:
New Canaan, CT vs Santa Monica, CA

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Highlights
- There are 211 physicians per 100,000 people in Santa Monica.
- There are 288 physicians per 100,000 people in New Canaan.
- The US average is 210 physicians per 100,000 people.
 New Canaan, CTSanta Monica, CAUnited States
 Air Quality (100=best)  Unlock34.358.4
 Water Quality (100=best)32  Unlock55
 Superfund Sites (100=best)  Unlock9586.9
 Physicians per Cap.288  Unlock210
 Health Cost  Unlock89100
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Reviews for New Canaan    3 Reviews

Over 15 years ago

Beautiful town with wonderful people. Great place to raise children, however, it is extremely costly to live  More

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Over 16 years ago

Agreed, cost of living is too high, too many wall streeters (which have a bad rep nowadays), and diversity is almost non-existant, public schools are average/good but  More

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Outside of the other categories, which run very well here; schools are good and competitive, climate is relatively mild, crime is very low, diversity is strong, culture  More

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Reviews for Santa Monica    24 Reviews

I moved here to Santa Monica over 10 years ago from Oklahoma City. I was surprised to see that Oklahoma City was ranked higher than Santa Monica on best places. I  More

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I've lived in Santa Monica for over 30 years. It's a Mediterranean climate--sunny and temperate when the rest of the country is under snow! I am walking distance to  More

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I have lived in this city for 4 decades, and it is never been worse than it is now. It is a dangerous disgusting hell hole. Between the crime, the homeless that are not  More

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