3 of the Nation's Best-Run Cities Are in Connecticut: Report

Quick, what are the best-run cities in Connecticut? I'll give you a hint, Stamford and Norwalk are not on the list.

Danbury and Milford didn't make it, nor did Shelton, Derby or Wallingford. Give up?

The three best-run cities in Connecticut are Bridgeport, Hartford and New Haven, according to the personal finance website WalletHub. The site crunched data on the performance of 150 of the nation's largest cities using six key indicators: financial stability, education, health, safety, economy, and infrastructure and pollution.

"We then combined these categories to construct an 'Overall City Services' ranking against which we measured the cities’ total per-capita budgets in order to reveal their budgeting efficiency," WalletHub writes.

As such, Bridgeport came in at #83; Hartford at #139; and New Haven at #142.

"Running a city is a tall order," writes WalletHub. "Not only must government officials navigate local politics, but they also must strive to balance the public’s interests with the city’s responsibilities and resources. And because resources generally grow limited as population sizes increase, especially when such increases occur rapidly, not all individual needs can or will be served."

The top five best-run cities are, in order: Boise, Idaho; Nampa, Idaho; Provo, Utah; Missoula, Montana; and Fort Wayne, Indiana.

At the other end of the spectrum, the five cities at the bottom of the list are: San Francisco, #146; Gulfort, Mississippi, #147; New York City, #148; Detroit, #149; and Washington, DC, #150.

Click here to view the full report, 2016's Best-Run Cities in America, on WalletHub.com

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