Evans Georgia Named In Top 10 Best Family Cities

Here’s the official press release from Family Circle Magazine:

EXCLUSIVE SURVEY: FAMILY CIRCLE REVEALS THE 10 BEST TOWNS

Data Driven Survey Reveals the Best Communities across the Country

June 30, 2009, NEW YORK—Family Circle today announced the results of its exclusive survey to identify the best TOWNS AND CITIES across the country FOR FAMILIES.  The communities featured in the magazine’s annual roundup of perfect places to call home combine affordable housing, good neighbors, green spaces and A+ public school systems.  The results of the comprehensive survey appear in Family Circle’s August 2009 issue, on newsstands July 7th.

According to Family Circle’s survey, the 10 Best Towns are:

Ø  Rockwall, Texas

Ø  Evans, Georgia

Ø  Sherwood, Oregon

Ø  Indian Trail, North Carolina

Ø  Edina, Minnesota

Ø  Noblesville, Indiana

Ø  Perrysburg, Ohio

Ø  Hendersonville, Tennessee

Ø  Kenmore, Washington

Ø  Sun Prairie, Wisconsin

According to the President and First Lady, the key to successful communities is the hard work and determination of the people who live there. Each of the towns honored is made up of forward thinking parents, teachers and students who are passionate about their hometown, dedicated to bettering their children’s futures and involved in advancing their local school systems as exemplified by the implementation of such programs as partnering with private medical groups to ensure treatment for students who don’t have health insurance and integrating dual language classes in grade school.

Survey Methodology

Family Circle partnered with Onboard Informatics, a New York City research firm that provides real estate, demographic and other data, to assemble an initial list of 1,700 cities and towns with populations between 15,000 and 150,000. From that, nearly 800 localities were selected with a high concentration of households with an average income of $75,000. We then assessed which places best met our family-friendly criteria—including affordable homes, quality schools, access to health care, green space, low crime rate and financial stability—and ranked them from top to bottom. Family Circle then selected the ten winners from among the highest-rated towns.

Greatschools.net, a nonprofit website with a mission to improve education by inspiring parents to get involved, provided Family Circle with the public school ratings used in the town rankings.  The site profiles more than 90,000 public elementary, middle and high schools in 50 states.

About Family Circle

Published 15 times a year by Meredith Corporation, with a circulation of 3.8 million and 21 million readers, Family Circle is one of the most widely read monthly magazines in the world. Family Circle provides smart relevant advice, sensible solutions, and inspiration in a voice that encourages and celebrates success in its pages and online at http://www.familycircle.com.  Family Circle has always been committed to women’s issues and in 1973 became the first women’s magazine to fully underwrite a professional women’s sporting event, the Family Circle Cup, an annual women’s tennis tournament held in April in Charleston, S.C., at Family Circle Magazine Stadium.