For the fifth straight year Marana was named one of Arizona's top-10 cities to live in by HomeSnacks.net, a website that uses recent data to paint a picture of what’s happening in a region.
Marana was ranked as the No. 7 Best City to Live In by the website. The Town was No. 8 in 2017 and No. 10 in 2016.
The website ranked each place in Arizona across a number of criteria from one to 55, with one being the best. Next, they took the average rank across all criteria, with the city posting the lowest overall score being crowned the winner of the title “Best Place To Live In Arizona”.
The criteria they used were:
Median Home Values
Median Income
Population Density (Higher better)
Unemployment Rate
Commute Time
Crime
Education Levels
Health Insurance Coverage
Poverty rates
Sources of criteria include the New Census Data and FBI Crime Data.
According to the website, “Your kids go to great schools, there's a ton of things to do, and you earn a great salary. Marana is exactly what you hoped for when you played that board game, LIFE as a kid.”
HomeSnacks.net tries to paint a picture of what it's like to live in places across America. To do that, they gather data from around the web to help determine a wide array of factors about where people live including safety, desirability, and culture.
