Fortune Well released Fortune’s inaugural 25 Best Places to Live for Families ranking, highlighting areas in the US where it is multigenerational families are more likely to have access to critical resources, community support, and financial well-being.
Nearly half of Americans who are raising children under the 17 years also take on the responsibility of regularly caring for their older parents in some way, according to a Harris Poll commissioned by Fortune in August.
This so-called “sandwich generation” is the target population of the Fortune Well ranking. Location can make a difference when Americans manage caregiver roles. High-quality schools, reliable health care, extensive support for seniors, and safe neighborhoods help bolster the well-being of multigenerational families and ease caregiver stress.
Fortune found that 7 out of 10 Americans with at least one living parent say they hope to help their elderly parents regularly in the future, and the 88% of millennials plan to care for their baby boomer parents.
To find the cities that offered the right mix to meet the needs of families, Fortune analyzed more than 215,000 data points from nearly 2,000 US cities and towns.
The 25 best places to live for families:
1. Ann Arbor, Michigan
2. Wylie, Texas
3. Olathe, Kansas
4. Mason, Ohio
5. Morrisville, North Carolina
6. Clearfield, Utah
7. Gaithersburg, MD
8. Leesburg, Va.
9. West Chicago, Illinois
10. Novi, Michigan
11. West Windsor, New Jersey
13. Tustin, California
10. South Portland, Maine
14. Woodbury, Minn.
15. Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey
17. Brooklone, Massachusetts
17. Sugar Land, Texas
18. Iowa City, Iowa
19. Maryland Heights, Missouri
21. San Marcos, California
21. Walla Walla, Washington
22. Sarasota, Florida
23. Fountain, Colorado
24. Statesville, North Carolina
25. Mauldin, South Carolina
For more details about the report, go here.
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