Minnesota’s Top 10 Best Places to Live for 2024
It's time for the annual list of the best places to live in Minnesota! It's always interesting to see which towns make the list. Let's see if the place you currently live or your hometown made it.
Worst Places to Live in Minnesota
Before we get to the best places to live in Minnesota, I just recently wrote about the WORST places to live in Minnesota. You might be shocked by some of the towns that ended up on the list. I know I was!
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How the Best Places to Live Were Selected
The annual study was done by Niche where they ranked the best places to live across the country. I broke it down to which towns they said are the best places to live in Minnesota and got our top 10.
In order to determine the towns that made the top of the list, Niche looked at several different items. Some of those include surveys people have posted on Niche's website and also data they gathered about the different places.
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They also weighted factors differently. Niche writes: "The goal of the weighting process was to ensure that no single factor could have a dramatic positive or negative impact on a particular place's final score and that each place's final score was a fair representation of its performance."
Minnesota's Best Places to Live, 2024
Now let's get the ratings for the top 10 best places to live in Minnesota.
Arden Hills (#10)
Minnetonka (#9)
Plymouth (#8)
Edina (#7)
Shoreview (#6)
Mendota Heights (#5)
Medina (#4)
Eden Prairie (#3)
Lauderdale (#2)
Falcon Heights (#1)
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Gallery Credit: Samm Adams