Westlake Ranked Fourth Best Cleveland Suburb to Live In

WESTLAKE, OH - The city has been named the fourth best suburb to live in around metro Cleveland. Westlake was placed behind Solon (third), Rocky River (second) and Shaker Heights (first). Westlake earned its distinction based off several ranking factors, including price of living, shortest commute, family amenities and more. The rankings were conducted by the website niche.com.

The website, niche.com, collects data from across the US and uses it to tabulate which suburb, or city, may be best for an individual family to live in. The company says it uses data from the US Census, the FBI, and the US Department of Education, among others. It also says it has more than 100 million city reviews and poll responses that it draws from.

Westlake was given worse grades than Shaker Heights in a few areas, including: Diversity and Weather.

The website used a series of factors to determine which suburb should receive each ranking. Westlake got the following grades, based off of niche's research.

• Cost of Living - B-
• Education Grade - A+
• Public Schools - A+
• Real Estate - B
• Diversity - B+
• Health & Fitness - A-
• Nightlife - A
• Shortest Commute - A-
• Crime & Safety - A-
• Family Amenities - A
• Jobs - B+
• Outdoor Activities - B-
• Weather - C

The top five looked like this:

1. Shaker Heights
2. Rocky River
3. Solon
4. Westlake
5. University Heights

You can see the full rankings here.

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