With almost half of the population saying that they’d prefer to live in a suburban area, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2025’s Best Small Cities in America, with five areas in Maryland (not all technically cities) listed in the top 8% of the
list. Three of them are in Montgomery County.
“To help Americans put down roots in places offering good quality of life and affordability”, WalletHub compared more than 1,300 U.S. cities with populations between 25,000 and 100,000 across 45 key indicators of livability. They range from housing costs and school-system quality to restaurants per capita and the crime rate. The highest in Maryland went to our very own Rockville, which was listed in the top 2%. Small-City Living in Rockville (1=Best; 659=Avg.):
- Overall rank for Rockville: 22nd
- 451st – % of Population in Poverty
- 511th – % of Insured Population
- 64th – % of Adults in Fair or Poor Health
- 279th – Crime Rate
- 1st – Unemployment Rate
Frederick, MD (Frederick County) came in ranked in the top 4%, state capital Annapolis, MD (Anne Arundel County) was in the top 5%, Bethesda MD (Montgomery County) was in the top 7%, and rounding out Maryland’s top 5 was Gaithersburg, MD (Montgomery County) in the top 8%…