Manchester, NH named in Livability Top 100 Best Places to List
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ivability.com unveiled today its highly anticipated 2025 Top 100 Best Places to Live list, showcasing the nation’s most vibrant and livable small to mid-sized cities. This list, now in its 12th year of publication, empowers users to customize the set of places based on their individualized priorities, from health and cost of living to entertainment and the local job market.
Livability.com lets users build out their own ‘best places’ list, crafting a personalized ranking with a few simple clicks. Livability’s proprietary algorithm evaluates nearly 100 data points across eight key categories: economy, housing and cost of living, amenities, transportation, environment, safety, education and health. All categories are weighed equally in the initial selection process, putting the power of prioritization directly in the hands of the user. To emphasize affordability, Livability only includes cities with a median home value under $500,000, and awards a slight edge to places with reasonable rent and home costs relative to local income.
Livability.com partnered with Applied Geographic Solutions (AGS) to analyze data from over 2,000 U.S. cities with populations between 75,000 and 500,000. The platform’s intuitive filtering system allows users to refine the list by category importance, median home value, population size and region. Interactive maps further enhance the user experience, providing a visual exploration of each city’s attributes.
Living in Manchester, NH
Once on the map for its textile mill, Manchester, NH, has reinvented itself. Nestled along the banks of the Merrimack River, Manchester is thoroughly modern, with a nod to its storied history as a significant industrial and economic hub in New England. While textile mills used to dominate the area, the city is now home to diverse industries such as technology, health care, communications and manufacturing. People are moving to Manchester for various reasons, but the city draws residents because of its excellent educational system. There are a dozen or so colleges and universities that offer all kinds of career paths for students, which feed into the city’s strong economy.
