Kennesaw Named to Best Small Cities List

By Tim Darnell

WalletHub has released its Best & Worst Small Cities in America for 2015, and three Cobb County cities made it into the top 1,000, with two cracking the top 200.

WalletHub’s analysts compared 1,268 cities across four key dimensions: affordability, economic health, education and health quality of life. It chose cities with a population size between 25,000 and 100,000 residents.

Those cities were then based on 22 metrics, ranging from housing costs to school-system quality to the number of restaurants per capita.

The best small city in America? Princeton, NJ.

Georgia’s best city was Alpharetta, coming in at No. 83.

Here’s how the rest of the Peach State’s small cities were ranked:

145 -- Duluth
174 -- Kennesaw
183 -- Marietta
249 -- Evans
323 -- Milton
532 -- Newnan
575 -- Johns Creek
602 -- Smyrna
606 -- Peachtree City
633 -- Tucker
662 -- Dunwoody
694 -- Roswell
726 -- Martinez
955 -- Stockbridge