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With a BestPlaces Premium Membership, you'll get access to detailed data and powerful tools to help you make your smartest decision.

Here's what your membership includes...

Enhanced Cost of Living Calculator and Analysis (unlimited access)

You asked for it, and here it is! A 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.

The DataEngine (unlimited access)

This is our own 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.

"One-Click" Data Downloads (10 per month) - FREE for a Limited Time

Capture the full set of BestPlaces info on any of our 82000 places in a downloadable “csv” file for use with spreadsheets and data tools.

With your BestPlaces Subscription 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 is compiled into one file and downloaded automatically into your computer. Click on that file and it’s loaded into your spreadsheet app for your analysis.

You’ll get ten downloads per month and you can sign up for more when you need them.