2025 Compare Cities Rankings:
The Villages, FL vs Wilkes-Barre, PA

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

#58 2005 Best Places to Live

#189 Best Green Cities

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

#16 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#26 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#68 Drought-Riskiest Cities

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

#164 Best Green Cities

#271 2005 Best Places to Live

The Village’s is a great place to ride your bike with all the many bike trails or golf cart trails to ride on, the problem with this place that ive experienced with this  More

we were considering the Villages but honestly, not interested in living in a place where people do not support our president, that is  More

Since 2010, it has had a population growth of 85.0%, which is a bit low compared to 2020. As for the Cons - Violent Crime - This is definitely not true. It might be in  More

I had the privilege of being born and raised here in Wilkes-Barre. Unfortunately, the town has deteriorated tremendously. I shall list pros vs.  More

Wilkes-Barre was a wonderful place to go to college. With two schools near each other (King's College and Wilkes College) the atmosphere was exciting. The city of itself  More