2017’s Best Places to Live in Massachusetts for Families according to WalletHub.
In WalletHub’s analysis of the Best & Worst States to Raise a Family, Massachusetts ranked No. 6 overall and earned particularly high marks in four out of five categories, including “family fun,” “health and safety,” “education and child care,” and “affordability.” But even in “socio-economics,” the final category, it outranked 28 states. Education and technology are unsurprisingly Massachusetts’ biggest industries, considering the state is the No. 1 most educated and third most innovative.
WalletHub’s data team compared 86 cities in Massachusetts based on 21 key indicators of family-friendliness. Our data set ranges from median family income to school-system quality to housing affordability.
Here are the Top 10:
- Longmeadow, MA
- Franklin Town, MA
- Winchester, MA
- Lexington, MA
- Wellesley, MA
- Needham, MA
- Belmont, MA
- Reading, MA
- Milton, MA
- Newton, MA