"A nationwide guide to the best in small-town living"--Cover subtitle.

Information on small towns and cities can often times be difficult to locate. America's Top-Rated Small Towns & Cities pulls together a wealth of information about these smaller places that, before now, could take hours of research in multiple sources to locate. Combining informative statistical data and easy-to-use comparative rankings, this brand new source provides just the data you need when researching small towns and how they compare to one another. A must-have source for libraries of all sizes.

This brand new publication provides detailed profiles and comparative statistics of small towns and cities across the country with populations from 3,000 to 25,000. More than 8,900 places are covered!

A revealing examination of small-town life More than thirty million Americans live in small, out-of-the-way places. Many of them could have joined the vast majority of Americans who live in cities and suburbs. They could live closer to more lucrative careers and convenient shopping, a wider range of educational opportunities, and more robust health care. But they have opted to live differently. In Small-Town America, we meet factory workers, shop owners, retirees, teachers, clergy, and mayors—residents who show neighborliness in small ways, but who also worry about everything from school closings and their children's futures to the ups and downs of the local economy. Drawing on more than seven hundred in-depth interviews in hundreds of towns across America and three decades of census data, Robert Wuthnow shows the fragility of community in small towns. He covers a host of topics, including the symbols and rituals of small-town life, the roles of formal and informal leaders, the social role of religious congregations, the perception of moral and economic decline, and the myriad ways residents in small towns make sense of their own lives. Wuthnow also tackles difficult issues such as class and race, abortion, homosexuality, and substance abuse. Small-Town America paints a rich panorama of individuals who reside in small communities, finding that, for many people, living in a small town is an important part of self-identity.

Identifies 120 of the best small towns throughout America and provides information on housing, education, geography, climate, employment, cost of living, religion, community infrastructure, and recreation.

America's Top-Rated Smaller Cities provides current, comprehensive data on 124 US cities, all top-ranked by Population Growth, Median Income, Unemployment Rate and Crime Rate.

America's Top-Rated Smaller Cities provides current, comprehensive data on 124 US cities, all top-ranked by Population Growth, Median Income, Unemployment Rate and Crime Rate.

Provides current, comprehensive data on 110 US cities, all top-ranked by population growth, median income, unemployment rate and crime rate.