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Best Places To Live In NH In 2019: Niche

Here are the top 50 places to live in New Hampshire, according to this year's list by Niche.

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Whatever makes a place one of the best to live in is up to whomever is living there. But New Hampshire sure has a lot of places to choose from. Niche this week released 2019's best places to live in America, and New Hampshire cities, towns and neighborhoods showed up on the list.

The "Best Places to Live" rankings in New Hampshire were led by Hanover, which was the only Granite State place to receive an A+ rating from Niche. The next entires on the list: Madbury, Lee, Bedford, Portsmouth, Amherst and Durham, got A ratings.

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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. Hanover
  2. Madbury
  3. Lee
  4. Bedford
  5. Portsmouth
  6. Amherst
  7. Durham
  8. Hollis
  9. Greenland
  10. Brookline
  11. Stratham
  12. Hampton Falls
  13. North Hampton
  14. Hampton
  15. Mont Vernon
  16. Lebanon
  17. Brentwood
  18. Exeter
  19. Atkinson
  20. Peterborough
  21. Bow
  22. North Conway
  23. Windham
  24. Canterbury
  25. Hopkinton
  26. Newfields
  27. Bartlett
  28. Rye
  29. Auburn
  30. Newmarket
  31. Londonderry
  32. Campton
  33. South Hooksett
  34. Kensington
  35. New Boston
  36. Salem
  37. Dover
  38. Nashua
  39. Dunbarton
  40. Cornish
  41. Conway
  42. Hooksett
  43. Merrimack
  44. Holderness
  45. Gorham
  46. Walpole
  47. Keene
  48. Concord
  49. Plymouth
  50. Henniker

The top 10 best places to live in America are:

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  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.

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