{"id":19002,"date":"2013-10-16T03:12:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T10:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/blog\/?p=19002"},"modified":"2022-04-19T22:22:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T05:22:45","slug":"10-best-cities-in-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/blog\/10-best-cities-in-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"These Are The 10 Best Places To Live In Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Embed Gallery<\/h3>\n<p><textarea style=\"width: 587px;height: 100px\">&lt;iframe src=&#8221;http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/movotoblog\/2013\/10\/best-michigan\/index.html&#8221; height=&#8221;580px&#8221; width=&#8221;587px&#8221; scrolling=&#8221;no&#8221; frameBorder=&#8221;0&#8243;&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;&lt;\/br&gt;&lt;a href=&#8221;https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/blog\/top-ten\/t10-best-cities-in-michigan\/&#8221;&gt;The 10 Best Cities in Michigan&lt;\/a&gt; By Movoto Real Estate<\/textarea><br \/>\nWe\u2019ve been ranking cities across the country, and even those within single states, in a lot of different ways for a while now on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\">Movoto Real Estate<\/a> Blog: nerdiest; worst dressed; most\u2026 cowboy. Now we\u2019re going state-by-state answering the question of which city within their borders is actually the best based on the data. Congratulations, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/real-estate\/homes-for-sale\/michigan-area.html\">Michigan<\/a>, you\u2019re up first.<br \/>\nWe hate drawn-out buildups as much as the next blog, so we\u2019re going to just lay it out: Midland is the best city in Michigan. Boom. It sits atop a top 10 that looks like this:<br \/>\n1. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/midland-mi\/\">Midland<\/a><br \/>\n2. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/novi-mi\/\">Novi<\/a><br \/>\n3. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/canton-mi\/\">Canton<\/a><br \/>\n4. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/portage-mi\/\">Portage<\/a><br \/>\n5. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/ann-arbor-mi\/\">Ann Arbor<\/a><br \/>\n6. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/grand-blanc-mi\/\">Grand Blanc<\/a><br \/>\n7. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/royal-oak-mi\/\">Royal Oak<\/a><br \/>\n8. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/east-lansing-mi\/\">East Lansing<\/a><br \/>\n9. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/farmington-hills-mi\/\">Farmington Hills<\/a><br \/>\n10. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/troy-mi\/\">Troy<\/a><br \/>\n10. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/\/west-bloomfield-mi\/\">West Bloomfield<\/a><br \/>\n\u201cWait,\u201d you say, \u201cthat\u2019s 11.\u201d You\u2019re right\u2014and that\u2019s because there was a tie for 10th. But how did these cities even end up in this order in the first place? Well, dear Michiganders\u2014and potential Michiganians\u2014you can read all about that in the ensuing paragraphs.<\/p>\n<h2>Michigan\u2019s Metro Supreme<\/h2>\n<p>What makes a great city? The same thing that makes a great athlete: fundamentals. In the case of ranking cities in terms of overall best-itude, we settled on the following six criteria to measure:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Amenities (shopping, dining, entertainment, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Cost of living (percent above or below state average)<\/li>\n<li>Crime (percent above or below state average)<\/li>\n<li>Education (student to teacher ratio compared to state average)<\/li>\n<li>Employment (income and unemployment compared to state average)<\/li>\n<li>Home value (percent above or below state average)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We started with a list of the 50 most populous cities and townships in Michigan, then gave each city a rank from one to 50 in the individual criteria above based on the data, with one being the best possible score. Then, we averaged the criteria together for each city and gave it an overall Big Deal Score. The lower this number was, the higher the city ranked.<br \/>\nNow that you know how we did it, let\u2019s talk about where each of our top 10 best cities in Michigan excelled the most. At the end of this post, you\u2019ll find the full list of 50 cities ranked for your statistical pleasure.<\/p>\n<h2>1. Midland<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 587px\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/movotoblog\/2013\/10\/best-michigan\/images\/1.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nWell, Midlanders, you now have a bigger claim to fame that being the headquarters of Dow Chemical, because you just took the top spot on our list of best cities in Michigan. How\u2019d you manage it? By placing really well in all our categories, of course.<br \/>\nIn addition to being chock full of places to shop and things to do, you\u2019re also safe\u2014ranked fifth on our list with a crime rate 53 percent below the Michigan average. In other words, you can tell all those people who claim Michigan is generally unsafe to worry about their own safety; you\u2019re sleeping just fine, thank you. You\u2019re also a good environment for jobs, with a median household income of $48,843 that\u2019s five percent above the state average. Your cost of living helped too; it\u2019s five percent less than Michigan\u2019s average.<br \/>\nThe fact that you have neat places like Dow Gardens and the Dow Diamond baseball park only sweeten the deal\u2014we just hope they don\u2019t have a strong chemical smell.<\/p>\n<h2>2. Novi<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/movotoblog\/2013\/10\/best-michigan\/images\/2.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe rest of Michigan might know you as \u201cthat place outside of Detroit where people from there go to shop,\u201d but we\u2019re here to tell you, Novi, that you\u2019re more than that. Your home values are really, really good\u2014we\u2019re talking 92 percent higher than the state average. But that\u2019s not all: your median income is also fantastic. It\u2019s $80,151, which is 73 percent higher than the Michigan average. We\u2019re also pretty sure monocles outsell traditional eyeglasses in Novi 5:1.<br \/>\nOf course, you\u2019ve got lots of retail\u2014and other amenities too\u2014and a crime rate that\u2019s 35 percent lower than the state average doesn\u2019t hurt, either. (Nor does the Emagine movie theater with its posh luxury seating sections\u2014nice one, Novi.)<\/p>\n<h2>3. Canton<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/movotoblog\/2013\/10\/best-michigan\/images\/3.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nHere\u2019s an interesting fact about Canton, MI: It\u2019s named after the city of Canton in China. Here\u2019s another: Its home values are nearly 91 percent higher than the Michigan average. That\u2019s not surprising (well, at least not as surprising as having a Chinese name) given that it\u2019s so attractive to prospective residents.<br \/>\nSome of that comes from a crime rate that\u2019s 39 percent lower than the state average. Yet more is from an unemployment rate of only 2.5 percent coupled with a median income of $85,444 which is 85 percent higher than the average for Michigan. So, no only can you put more in the bank, but you don\u2019t have to worry as much about needing it to cover expenses if you get laid off.<\/p>\n<h2>4. Portage<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/movotoblog\/2013\/10\/best-michigan\/images\/4.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nWhat\u2019s your fascination with the word \u201czoo,\u201d Portage? Seriously, you\u2019re right next door to Kalamazoo, and you\u2019re home to an Air Zoo. That\u2019s not what got you into our top 10, though. (This isn\u2019t a ranking of zoo-related places, after all.) Nope, that would be the fact that you\u2019re highly ranked for amenities, education, and home value.<br \/>\nFor that last one, your housing is valued at 15 percent above the state average\u2014your median income is also solid at $55,936, which is 1 percent above the state average. If there\u2019s one area you could work on, it\u2019d be crime; your crime rate is 34 percent higher than Michigan\u2019s average. Are those sirens we hear?<\/p>\n<h2>5. Ann Arbor<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 600px\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/movotoblog\/2013\/10\/best-michigan\/images\/5.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe home of the University of Michigan also turns out to be a good place to call home\u2014and especially to own a home. That\u2019s because property values there are 78 percent above the state average.<br \/>\nAs for everything else we looked at, Ann Arbor did quite well too. Education and amenities are good, crime is slightly below the state average, and the cost of living is a mere 7.6 percent above average for Michigan. (We imagine life inside any of the city\u2019s tiny, fascinating fairy doors is probably a lot cheaper.)<br \/>\n[php snippet=1]<\/p>\n<h2>6. Grand Blanc<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/movotoblog\/2013\/10\/best-michigan\/images\/6.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nHey, Grand Blanc, it\u2019s okay that your biggest claim to fame in recent years has been that you\u2019re the home town of Tate from \u201cAmerican Horror Story\u201d, because you\u2019re a really solid place to live. You\u2019re above or below average in all the right places.<br \/>\nCases in point: Your crime rate is 15 percent below the state average, but your home value is 26 percent above. The only thing you could be doing better is attracting more amenities. You know, for when Even Peters, who played Tate, comes home to spend his millions. (Maybe he\u2019ll buy everyone scoops at Ziggy\u2019s Ice Cream\u2014we hear it\u2019s pretty good!)<\/p>\n<h2>7. Royal Oak<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/movotoblog\/2013\/10\/best-michigan\/images\/7.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nWe have to say that being the setting for the sitcom classic \u201cHome Improvement\u201d is a bit of a step up from Grand Blanc\u2019s TV-related claim to fame. We also have to wonder if this fact has anything to do with why home values in Royal Oak are 31 percent higher than the state average.<br \/>\nWe figured Royal Oak would\u2019ve placed higher in terms of amenities with attractions like the Detroit Zoo located there, but it\u2019s still pretty good. So\u2019s a crime rate that\u2019s 29 percent below the average for the rest of the state. We\u2019re not sure if that number includes incidents relating to escaped zoo residents, though.<\/p>\n<h2>8. East Lansing<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/movotoblog\/2013\/10\/best-michigan\/images\/8.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe third college town on our list, East Lansing is home to Michigan State University. But we\u2019re not ranking college towns here; we\u2019ll save that for another day.<br \/>\nEast Lansing\u2019s cost of living is in line with the state average, while its median household income is actually lower at $31,167 and its home value is 41 percent higher at $189,800. Honestly, we actually expected more out of the hometown of Google cofounder Larry Page. Like, maybe free Google Glass for everyone?<\/p>\n<h2>9. Farmington Hills<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/movotoblog\/2013\/10\/best-michigan\/images\/9.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nLocated about 30 minutes northwest of Detroit\u2014and right next to No. 2 Novi\u2014Farmington Hills is what you\u2019d describe as \u201caffluent.\u201d As a result, the cost of living is 31 percent higher than the state average, while home values are a whopping 76 percent above.<br \/>\nCrime, on the other hand, is 38 percent lower than the average for Michigan. See, sounds pretty affluent. What all that money doesn\u2019t get you, though, is as many amenities as in other parts of the Great Lakes State. (Although having a place called Marvin\u2019s Marvelous Mechanical Museum that\u2019s full of cool\/creepy coin-operated contraptions helps in our book.)<\/p>\n<h2>10. Troy and West Bloomfield Township<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/movotoblog\/2013\/10\/best-michigan\/images\/10-3.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe final town towns on our list actually managed to tie\u2014something we don\u2019t get around here too often. But, when the data speaks, we listen. While both cities received the same Big Deal Score and both placed 10th, there are some notable differences between them in terms of what makes them such good places to live.<br \/>\nTroy, on the one hand, is better in terms of cost of living at 34 percent above the state average; West Bloomfield\u2019s is a whopping 78 percent above. On the other hand, West Bloomfield has a much better crime rate at 56 below the Michigan average; Troy is still quite safe at 18 percent below. Both towns have about the same in terms of school quality, available amenities, and employment prospects.<\/p>\n<h2>Michigan, My Michigan<\/h2>\n<p>So, Michiganers, there you have it. We hope we\u2019ve helped to settle some arguments\u2014although we suspect that we might have just added fuel to the fire. 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Now we\u2019re going state-by-state answering the question of which city within their borders is actually the best based on the data. Congratulations, Michigan, you\u2019re up first. We hate drawn-out buildups as much as the next blog, so we\u2019re going to just lay it out: Midland is the best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-places","post--single"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>These Are The 10 Best Places To Live In Michigan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Looking to make a move to the Wolverine State? 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