America's Top-Rated Cities provides current, comprehensive statistical information and other essential data in one easy-to-use source on the 100 "top" cities that have been cited as the best for business and living in the U. S. - providing a concise social, business, economic, demographic and environmental profile of each city. Details Cost of Living, Taxes, Education, Employers, Media, Crime, Bankruptcy and more. For city-by-city comparisons, a handy Comparative Ranking Chart lists statistics for all the cities so the user can quickly and easily see how the cities compare to one another - a huge time-saver.

Including government statistics for major crimes reported from 1977-1996, this handbook graphically portrays trends in 75 US cities which have been cited in magazine surveys as among the best places to live. Besides crime data, each metropolitan statistical areas's profile contains information on its anti-crime programs, crime risk, law enforcement, corrections, death penalty provisions and laws. With a caveat against making comparisons due to economic and other factors, cities are not ranked by their crime rates. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

America's Top-Rated Cities is a four-volume set, each book covering a specific region of the United States - Southern, Western, Central, and Eastern. Each volume includes statistical information and other data in one easy-to-use source on cities which have been cited in various magazine surveys as being the best places for business and living. Book jacket.