The Best and Worst Cities For Raising a Family

If you REALLY cared about your kids, you’d throw the whole family into a moving van and say, “Good news, we’re moving to east Kansas!”

 

WalletHub.com just released the results of a study that ranked the 150 biggest cities in the country from the best place to raise a family to the worst . . . and Overland Park, Kansas came in number one.

 

The rankings are based on 41 different factors including things like playgrounds per capita . . . weather . . . the number of families with young children . . . schools . . . crime rates . . . housing prices . . . and cost of living.

 

The top 10 are:

  • Overland Park
  • Madison, Wisconsin
  • Plano, Texas
  • Seattle
  • Fremont, California
  • Minneapolis
  • Virginia Beach, Virginia
  • Sioux Falls, South Dakota
  • Irvine, California
  • Lincoln, Nebraska

 

And the 10 worst are:

  • Birmingham, Alabama
  • Detroit
  • San Bernardino, California
  • Shreveport, Louisiana
  • Hialeah, Florida
  • Miami
  • Jackson, Mississippi
  • Augusta, Georgia
  • Newark, New Jersey
  • Memphis

 

Reno comes in at #97.

 

(WalletHub)