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New Hampshire's 10 Best Places To Live
Bedford, Portsmouth, Amherst and Windham topped the 2017 Best Places to Live in New Hampshire survey by Niche.
This is one heck of a report card. Niche has come out with its new 2017 rankings of the "Best Places to Live" in New Hampshire, but it took a bit of a unique approach: The consumer rankings service assigned a grade, on an A+-to-D- scale, to almost every city and town and many neighborhoods around the state.
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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These are the top 10 New Hampshire communities:
- Hanover
- Bedford
- Portsmouth
- Amherst
- Hollis
- Durham
- Madbury
- Lee
- Greenland
- Windham
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