Tinley Park, Il., Tops BusinessWeek's 2010 Best Places to Raise Your Kids List. Arcadia, Calif.., San Marcos, Texas, and Beaverton, Ore.., Also make the list.
Each year BusinessWeek Teams Up With OnBoard Informatics, a New York-based provider of real estate analysis, to choose a winner and two runners-up in each of the 50 states. Selections were limited to towns with at least 45.000 residents and median income between $ 40,000 and $ 125.000.
Data collected on each city to Determine ranking included: school performance, number of schools, household expenditures, crime rates, air quality, job growth, family income, museums, parks, theaters, other amenities and diversity.
Affordability, safety and school test scores were given the greatest weight. Relative safety levels for each city were determined by measuring the "total crime risk," a combination of the risks of rape, murder, assault, robbery, burglary, Larceny and Vehicle Theft.
The crime scores were determined by geographic and demographic analysis of crime in that city over the past seven years. School performance was based upon state reading and math scores.
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