Leawood named one in all America’s ‘finest small cities’

Monetary web site Wallethub has named Leawood among the finest small cities in the USA. Above, Leawood’s Metropolis Corridor constructing. File photograph.

Monetary web site Wallethub considers Leawood among the finest “small” cities to reside.

On this 12 months’s State of the Metropolis report, Mayor Peggy Dunn introduced town obtained a prime recognition in Wallethub’s most up-to-date small metropolis rating.

The report included a number of small cities throughout the USA.

Leawood best small cities — Above, a house in south Leawood. File photograph.

Wallethub ranked Leawood fifteenth in U.S. small cities

The report included cities with populations between 25,000 and 100,000 individuals.
Leawood positioned within the 99th percentile, which suggests it received Wallethub’s highest rating doable.
This marks the second time Leawood has just lately been placed on the map nationally, following the U.S. Census Bureau’s latest report additionally establishing Leawood as one of many nation’s wealthiest cities.

The rating took Leawood’s livability under consideration

Wallethub decided Leawood’s excessive standing primarily with 5 livability elements.
Leawood ranked extremely for its affordability, financial well being, training, high quality of life and security.
The report used 43 different “key metrics” to fee Leawood — together with highschool commencement charges and eating places.

Leawood was the one Johnson County metropolis to rank within the 99th percentile

Nonetheless, Lenexa and Shawnee scored within the 93rd and ninetieth percentile, respectively.
Within the wider Kansas Metropolis metro space, Lee’s Summit, Missouri, scored within the 59th percentile.
The general pattern within the report included greater than 1,300 cities throughout the nation.

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