Doylestown was left off a recently released list by Niche of the 100 best places in Pennsylvania to live, thereby causing us to shake our heads and wonder what exactly they were thinking.
In fact, Niche, a website that analyzes neighborhoods, school districts and colleges, completely omitted Bucks County towns from the list's top 50. Yardley, the top-ranking Bucks County town, was ranked 62.
Niche.com did include Buckingham Township, which was ranked 96 out of 100.
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We're taking this ranking with a grain of salt.
To calculate the rankings and assign grades to communities, Niche said looks at factors like the quality of local schools, crime rates, housing trends, employment statistics and access to amenities. Niche gets its data from government sources like the Department of Education, the FBI and the U.S. Census.
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Sixty one Philadelphia-area communities cracked the top 100, including four that made the top 10.
According to Niche, these are the 10 best places to live in Pennsylvania:
- Chesterbrook, Chester County
- Houserville, Centre County
- Mt. Lebanon, Allegheny County
- Penn Wynne, Montgomery County
- Squirrel Hill North, Allegheny County
- Ardmore, Delaware County
- Lemont, Centre County
- Franklin Park, Allegheny County
- Boalsburg, Centre County
- Berwyn, Chester County
The following Philadelphia area communities made the top 100:
- 1 - Chesterbrook
- 4 - Penn Wynne
- 6 - Ardmore
- 10 - Berwyn
- 12 - Swarthmore
- 14 - Blue Bell
- 15 - Narberth
- 18 - Upper Providence Township
- 20 - Upper Uwchlan Township
- 21 - Radnor Township
- 22 - Charlestown Township
- 24 - East Whiteland Township
- 25 - Nether Providence Township
- 27 - Jenkintown
- 28 - Devon
- 32- Birmingham Township
- 33 - Montgomeryville
- 34 - King of Prussia
- 36 - Chadds Ford Township
- 38 - Glenside
- 40 - Collegeville
- 41 - Haverford Township
- 43 - Media
- 44 -Lionville
- 45 - East Marlborough Township
- 48 - East Bradford Township
- 51 - Audubon
- 52 - Conshohocken
- 53 - Lower Moreland
- 54 - Fort Washington
- 55 - West Conshohocken
- 57 - Exton
- 58 - West Pikeland Township
- 59 - Graduate Hospital
- 61- Malvern
- 62 - Yardley
- 63 - Woodside
- 64 - East Brandywine Township
- 65 - Bella Vista
- 66- Oreland
- 67 - Camp Hill
- 68 - Plymouth Meeting
- 70 - Flourtown
- 71 - Fitler Square
- 73 - Washington Square West
- 74 - Old City Philadelphia
- 75 - Wyndmoor
- 76 - Upper Gwynedd Township
- 77 - Newtown Grant
- 78 - Westttown Township
- 81 - East Caln Township
- 84 - Worcester Township
- 85 - Schuylkill Township
- 89 - Thornbury Township
- 92 - Bryn Athyn
- 94 - Society Hill, Philadelphia
- 95 - Upper Makefield Township
- 96 - Buckingham Township
- 97 - Pennsbury Township
- 98 - Newtown
- 99 - West Bradford
Downtown Ardmore, which was listed 6th. Image via Google Maps
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