Sonoma, Napa county cities named among best small cities in America by Wallethub

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The North Bay is home to four of the best small cities in America, according to a report out this week by WalletHub.

Napa, Petaluma, Rohnert Park and Windsor were all named in the financial website’s Oct. 1 list of “Best Small Cities in America (2024).”

For the list, WalletHub looked at 1,318 U.S. cities with populations between 25,000 and 100,000 and compared data in each city across five categories: affordability, economic health, education and health, quality of life and safety.

Given the large number of cities ranked in the study, WalletHub grouped cities by percentile. The 99th percentile represents the top 1% of small cities in America.

Of the four North Bay cities on the list, Napa ranked the highest. The city was grouped in the 81st percentile, primarily driven by its high quality of life ranking (No. 58).

Windsor was grouped in the list’s 76th percentile, spurred by its favorable safety ranking (No. 297) and education and health ranking (No. 386).

Petaluma was grouped in the list’s 71st percentile, in large part due to its high quality of life ranking (No. 136) and favorable economic health ranking (No. 280).

Rohnert Park was grouped in the list’s 56th percentile, with its best rankings in economic health (No. 263) and education and health (359).

Rohnert Park ranked lowest of all four in affordability, coming in at No. 1183, just behind Napa (No. 1181) and Petaluma (No. 1153). Windsor scored the best of the North Bay cities in affordability, coming in at No. 743.

In its ranking, WalletHub listed Carmel, Indiana, as the best small city to live in, due in part to strong economic factors such as high household incomes and low unemployment.

The Southern California city of Isla Vista, home to the University of California, Santa Barbara, received the lowest score on the list, coming in dead last in both the affordability and economic health rankings.

Data for the study was collected as of July 2, 2024, from the U.S. Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Tripadvisor, County Health Rankings, Yelp, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and other sources, according to WalletHub.

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Sonoma, Napa county cities named among best small cities in America by Wallethub

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