2025 Compare Cities Rankings:
Urbana, IL vs Wasilla, AK

#10 Best Green Cities

#33 2005 Best Places to Live

#44 Most Competitive Public Colleges

#58 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Smallest Metro Areas)

#109 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (117 Smallest Metro Areas)

#3 Best Cities for Teleworking - Small Metro Areas

#15 Most Secure Places to Live 2011 (Mid-Size Cities)

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

#83 2005 High Gas Prices

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#100 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#160 2005 Best Places to Live

#308 Best Green Cities

This town is horrendous. I cannot figure out why they think they are so important, as they wouldn't even exist if the college was not here. Just another worthless 40,000  More

Greetings: Urbana is a good college town to live but it comes with the usual dependency on the university for most of its cultural entertainment. Thankfully, it has a  More

Urbana really doesn't have much in the way recreation unless, your into the partying scene and even then there are only a few hangout places. Urbana is more of a  More

I've lived in Wasilla for two years so far and I love it. I have no problems with the valley. I live about 10 minutes south of the center of town in Wasilla and bought  More

Previously lived for many years in Eagle River, Alaska. Moved to Wasilla almost 6 years ago now. The Wasilla cityscape is littered with aging strip malls and  More

The main reason I’m commenting is to point out a glaring error in this website’s data. School funding is not $5,700 per year as this site reports. It is likely double  More