Waltham Near Bottom of 'The Worst Places to Live in Mass.' List

You may already be aware, but now people outside town are, too: Waltham is a pretty good place to live.

A recent list published by RoadSnacks ranked the worst places to live in Massachusetts, and Waltham came in fairly close to the bottom of a list you don’t want your town leading. Waltham is ranked at at No. 176. Looked at another way, that means Waltham ranks among the top 40 places to live in Massachusetts.

The list assumes people wanted “low crime, solid education, great weather, things to do and a stable economy” in their towns and then looked for statistics that showed the opposite of those things in order to come up with a “worst places” list from among the state’s 224 most populous cities.

So who topped this not-so-illustrious list? That would be New Bedford, which is, according to RoadSnacks’ data, “by far the worst place to live in the state of Massachusetts,” with its high crime rate (fourth highest in the state), high unemployment (10.4 percent) and the sixth lowest salaries in the state. Fall River came in at No. 2 with its fifth-highest crime rate, 11 percent unemployment and median income of just more than $34,000.

Wondering who made the top 10 among the worst? Check out the list.