COLUMBUS – Ohio in general, and central Ohio in particular, were prominent in a website’s list of the best suburbs in the nation. One Columbus-area community even captured the list’s top spot
Five of those on BusinessInsider.com‘s list of the Top 50 Suburbs in America were in the Columbus area, with New Albany nailing down the No. 1 ranking, and several more were in the state, a fact the website’s editors attribute to an affordable cost of living.
The website studied 2,754 municipalities across the country with populations between 5,000 and 100,000 located within 40 kilometers of the nearest metropolitan area and evaluated them based on factors like average commute times, median household income, poverty and crime rates, the quality of public schools and housing affordability.
New Albany topped the list, boasting “everything one could ask for in a small town, down to white picket fences and colonial-style architecture.” The editors also credited the city’s public parks.
Powell (#12), Dublin (#16), Upper Arlington (#26) and Bexley (#35) also made the list.