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Arcadia Ranks as One of Most Exciting, Small Cities
Movoto Real Estate Blog ranks Arcadia as number 47 out of the 50 cities on the list.
Motovo Real Estate Blog released a list of the most exciting, small cities in the U.S.
Even though the main focus was on the top 10 cities, Arcadia came in number 47 out of the 50 cities that made it on the list. Only six California cities made the cut.
According to the Movoto Blog, they "compiled a list of small cities across the country with populations between 50,000 and 60,000 residents, which came to a total of 140. We then researched our six criteria within each city and awarded a score from one to 140 in each criterion, with the best possible score being one."
With a ranking of 1 to 140 for the six criteria, Arcadia's ranking is as follows:
Population: 57,497
Rank: 47
Live Music Rank: 24
Fast Food Rank (the fewer the better): 93
Nightlife Rank: 33
Active Life Rank: 27
Non-Fastfood Percentage Rank (the lower the better): 45
Young Residents Rank (the higher the better): 134
Big Deal Score: 59.75
"After all of the individual criteria has been scored and ranked, we averaged all the individual rankings for each city to produce an overall Big Deal Score. As with the individual criteria rankings, the lower this number was, the better. The 10 cities with the lowest overall scores were our most exciting small cities," according to the blog.