Best Places to Live | Compare cost of living, crime, cities, schools and more.

Find a Place Easily search for a place, browse our custom map, or simply click a state name to explore all of the cities, metro areas, counties, and zip codes in each state.

Make your selections, then push the "Build List" button to build your custom Top List of Places built for and by you.

2025 Compare Cities Perform an overall comparison between two cities on over a dozen categories and 100’s of items.

Why Sperling's? Over twenty years ago, we created the "Best Places to Live" study for Money magazine. Our reputation has grown, and now we do more of these "Best Places" studies than …

Bertrand Sperling is the COO of Sperling’s Best Places. He heads the company’s daily operations and oversees its research, content, and product development.

For over 35 years, Bert Sperling has been analyzing data about people and places, and rating them for major publications. Our goal is to provide you with a new level of accurate and up-to …

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Sperling’s BestPlaces is the United States’ most reliable and thorough resource for demographic data, from the national level down to the zip code (and everything in between).