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Members receive 10 FREE city profile downloads a month, Unlimited Quiz Credits with Personalized City Reports of your best places to live in the United States, unlimited access to our detailed cost of living calculator and analysis, and unlimited access to our DataEngine.

NEW! City Reports

- City Data only found on the reports.
- 1 to 10 index of every city on the site.
- Comprehensive City Data only found on BestPlaces.
- Example of page 1 of the report:


Premium Quiz Benefits

- Unlimited Quiz Credits
- Comprehensive 22-question quiz
- Once you finish the quiz we calculate your answers and give you 3 metro areas, 3 cities in each metro area, 3 zip codes in each city along with personalized printable reports.
- Cost of Living for each place
- Real Estate info on each place
- Job Market and Commute Times for each place
- Crime & Safety Reports for each place
- Climate and Weather Trends for each place
- Local Schools & Ratings for each place
- Local Economy info
- Potential Health Issues
- Religion and Churches
- Type of people who live here
- Politics & Voting
- Growth
- Social Climate
- Affordability
- and more

Enhanced Cost of Living Benefits

- Cost of Living Calculator and Analysis
- Super-detailed cost of living comparison which includes taxes, child care, and renting or buying a home.
- Enter your income and see what your taxes will be including state and local, income, sales, property, plus auto and real estate fees.
- Find the local cost of child care, auto insurance, health premiums and more.
- There's nothing else like it on the web.

City Profile Download Benefits

- 10 FREE City Profile Downloads per month
- Capture the full set of info on any of our 82,000 places in a downloadable “csv” file for use with spreadsheets and data tools.
- You’ll see a special “Download This Place” button on every one of our place pages. Click it and all those pages of valuable information are compiled into one file and downloaded automatically.
- Click the file and it’s loaded into your spreadsheet for your analysis.
- 10 FREE downloads per month, buy more if you need them ($5.99 for 10 Downloads, $10.99 for 20 Downloads).

The DataEngine Benefits

- Unlimited access
- Powerful online app we designed to let you easily and quickly drill down through mountains of data and download files for use in Excel Tableau or other data analysis tools.
- Lets say you want the annual snowfall for every city in Illinois? Just four clicks.
- How about the household income for all 351 zip codes in the D.C. Metro area? Only five clicks.
- You can spend days sifting through online government databases or minutes with DataEngine.






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