PG County Suburbs Ranked Among the Best Places to Live in Maryland

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MD — What’s the best place to live in Maryland? That depends on who you ask, but according to a new set of rankings released by Niche.com, the Prince George's County suburbs of D.C. are high on the list.

The suburbs of Northern Virginia placed prominently in the rankings released April 17. Placing in the top 100 are University Park (31), Greenbelt (81), Adelphi (98), and College Park (99).

A University Park resident describes the community as one of the best in the county. "The community is clean, and nice. It's very peaceful when I walk or run in the neighborhood. I feel safer. Everything is very near from this area, such as, metro, mall, movie theater, etc. Also, the people are friendly, and nice. If I could do it all over again, I would totally live here. In the future, I can see a lot of good things for this area."

To arrive at the rankings, Niche.com took several factors into consideration, such as the quality of local schools, crime rates, housing trends, employment statistics and access to amenities. Niche created a standardized score for each factor and after weighting each factor, an overall score was calculated, which was again given a new standardized score.

Finally, Niche.com created a numerical ranking and assigned grades for each place. Click here to read more about the methodology.

Click here to view the full list.

According to the rankings, the best places to live in the country are:

1. Carmel, Indiana
2. Chesterbrook, Pennsylvania
3. Morrisville, North Carolina
4. Dublin, Ohio
5. Buffalo Grove, Illinois
6. Penn Wynne, Pennsylvania
7. Ann Arbor, Michigan
8. Naperville, Illinois
9. Clarendon Hills, Illinois
10. Devon, Pennsylvania

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