Takoma Park Ranks High On Top 100 Best Places To Live

TAKOMA PARK, MD — What’s the best place to live in Maryland? That depends on who you ask. According to a new set of rankings released by Niche.com, Takoma Park places high in the 100 best places to live in Maryland, coming in No. 28.

A Takoma Park resident describes the community as, "Takoma Park is an old city that retains the feeling of a neighborhood. With its quaint mixture of small businesses, park the car and walk a few hundred feet to the bank, baker, hardware store, Vet, police, fire station, cafes, and a Saturday morning farmer's market, that are anchored by a Post Office and church. Parking is great. Free WIFI is plentiful and this culturally diverse community has a state-of-the-art library for books, voting, and community meetings. Did I mention it has a metro-train station for easy public commuting to D.C. and Silver Spring? Takoma Park is a family-friendly little southern village, with the steely resolve to keep its artistic, independent, non-partisan, charm of modern living."

Niche.com gave Takoma Park an A+ for Public Schools, an A+ for Good for Families, an A+ for Diversity, a A- for Nightlife and a B- for Housing.

The suburbs in Montgomery County dominated the rankings released April 17. According to Niche.com, these are the best places to live in Maryland:

1. North Potomac
2. Columbia
3. North Bethesda
4. Potomac
5. Ellicott City
6. Darnestown
7. Bethesda
8. Kensington
9. Travilah
10. Rockville

Click here to view the full list.

Derwood, Olney, Chevy Chase Village, Clarksburg, Cabin John, Poolesville, Damascus, Burtonsville and more also placed on the top 100 list.

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.

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