Best Cities · Families
Safety, affordability, quality schools, and kid-friendly climate — ranked for every city.
25% safety, 25% affordability, 20% education, 15% climate, 10% walkability, 5% environment.
Ranked by UrbRank Score with weights tuned for families.
Showing the top 25. See the full rankings page for more, or narrow to a specific state below.
State-specific rankings for every US state with scored cities.
A combination of safety (low violent and property crime), affordability (housing and groceries within reach on a single-earner household), school quality (proxied by the share of adults with a bachelor's degree, which correlates strongly with school ratings), and mild climate. UrbRank weights those four dimensions to rank the best family cities.
Each city gets scored 0-100 on seven dimensions. For the family ranking, we apply a weighted average: safety 25%, affordability 25%, education 20%, climate 15%, walkability 10%, environment 5%. The result is a single 0-100 UrbRank Score, which is sorted to produce the ranking.