Best Places To Live In MA In 2019: Niche

Whatever makes a place one of the best to live is up to the person living there. But Massachusetts sure has a lot of places to choose from. Niche this week released 2019's best places to live in America, and Massachusetts cities, towns and neighborhoods were all over the list.

The “Best Places to Live” rankings in Massachusetts are led by the usual suspects: Brookline, Cambridge, Newton, Lexington and Belmont make up the top five.

The top 61 entires on the list received an A+ rating from niche as a place to live. The others on the still received A ratings.

If you don't see where you call home in the list below, Niche ranked dozens more places to live in Massachusetts. Click here.

Niche says its goal is to “provide accurate, comparable and thorough evaluations of places.” Using data from government and private sources, Niche grades the places evaluated for the rankings on factors like public schools, crime and safety and housing.

1. Brookline
2. Cambridge
3. Newton
4. Lexington
5. Belmont
6. Sudbury
7. Wayland
8. Cochituate
9. Boxborough
10. Westford
11. Arlington
12. Hopkinton
13. Sharon
14. Williamstown
15. Westborough
16. Wellesley
17. Shrewsbury
18. Natick
19. Andover
20. Acton
21. Longmeadow
22. Carlisle
23. Lincoln
24. Needham
25. Dover
26. Winchester
27. Medfield
28. Southborough
29. Weston
30. Concord
31. Harvard
32. Pelham
33. Milton
34. Westwood
35. Bedford
36. Stow
37. Northampton
38. West Concord
39. Watertown
40. Sherborn
41. Ashland
42. Cordaville
43. Groton
44. Somerville
45. Marblehead
46. Medway
47. Northborough
48. Hamilton
49. Franklin
50. Woods Hole
51. North Amherst
52. South Amherst
53. Bolton
54. Topsfield
55. Amherst
56. Norwell
57. Reading
58. Melrose
59. Littleton
60. Chelmsford
61. Boxford
62. Paxton
63. Amherst Center
64. North Andover
65. Hingham
66. Holliston
67. Wenham
68. Newburyport
69. Mansfield
70. Holden
71. Deerfield
72. Dunstable
73. Upton
74. Burlington
75. Canton
76. Lenox
77. Boylston
78. Waltham
79. Grafton
80. South Hadley
81. West Falmouth
82. Medford
83. Norfolk
84. Norwood
85. Wellfleet
86. Littleton Common
87. North Reading
88. Lancaster
89. Foxborough
90. Walpole
91. Essex
92. North Scituate
93. Orleans
94. Wilbraham
95. Braintree
96. Richmond
97. South Deerfield
98. Wrentham
99. Maynard
100. Belchertown

The top 10 best places to live in America are:

1. Bluemont, neighborhood in Arlington, Virginia
2. Carmel, Indiana
3. Overlake, neighborhood in Redmond, Washington
4. College Terrace, neighborhood in Palo Alto, California
5. Davis Island, neighborhood in Tampa, Florida
6. Rose Isle, neighborhood in Orlando, Florida
7. Colonial Village, neighborhood in Arlington, Virginia
8. Okemos, Michigan
9. Chesterbrook, Pennsylvania
10. Radnor/Fort Myer Heights, neighborhood in Arlington, Virginia

You can see the full Niche “Best Place to Live” rankings for 2019 here.