2025 Compare Cities Rankings:
Worcester, MA vs Lafayette, IN

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

#14 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

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

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

#70 The Most Single Cities

#72 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#87 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#197 Best Green Cities

#286 2005 Best Places to Live

#292 2005 Best Places to Live

I don't understand why your statistics say there aren't any Hispanics/Latinos in Worcester. I'm Puerto Rican, and I grew up there. There are plenty of Latin people all  More

Great healthcare statewide, not just in  More

Though I don't live there, Worcester is a first class bargain for a great first class education! Worcester has at least 10 great colleges and universities in this city,  More

I have lived here for 12 years and in a smaller town 20 miles away for over 35 years and like the people. But crime is on the rise, more arrests lately related to people  More

Lafayette still has a small town atmosphere. It is a wonderful place to raise children. There is a strong sense of community. Unfotunately in recent years Lafayette has  More

I can say I have lived in Lafayette Indiana for 25 years. I'll say that home is home...but I would honestly say in less your a college student at Purdue, I would never  More