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WI Towns Graded, From A+ To D-: How Did Your Community Do?
You may be surprised to see what towns are graded, on an A+-to-D- scale, as the best and worst places to live on a Wis. "report card."
BROOKFIELD, WI — This is one heck of a report card. And you may want to think twice about living in a place that was graded below average.
Niche has come out with its new 2017 rankings of the "Best Places to Live" in Wisconsin, 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 town in the state.
Only 7 municipalities in the Milwaukee area received A+ grades, topped with Elm Grove, Brookfield and several of the North Shore communities.
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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.
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Finally, Niche.com created a numerical ranking and assigned grades for each place. Click here to read more about the methodology.
Here are the Wisconsin municipalities in the Greater Milwaukee Area, and how they were graded. Full list here:
- A+ Elm Grove
- Suburb of Milwaukee, WI
- 17 reviews
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS6,037
- A+ Cedarburg
- Suburb of Milwaukee, WI
- 6 reviews
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS11,508
- Suburb of Milwaukee, WI
- 53 reviews
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS38,000
- Suburb of Milwaukee, WI
- 12 reviews
- DENSITYUrban
- RESIDENTS14,122
- Suburb of Milwaukee, WI
- 14 reviews
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS23,494
- A + Shorewood
- A Bayside
- Suburb of Milwaukee, WI
- 12 reviews
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS3,203
- Suburb of Milwaukee, WI
- 20 reviews
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS13,784
- Suburb of Milwaukee, WI
- 1 review
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS1,472
- Suburb of Milwaukee, WI
- 82 reviews
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS47,126
- Suburb of Milwaukee, WI
- 23 reviews
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS7,168
- Suburb of Milwaukee, WI
- 7 reviews
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS12,914
- Suburb of Milwaukee, WI
- 17 reviews
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS35,884
- Town in Wisconsin
- 109 reviews
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS71,324
- Suburb of Milwaukee, WI
- 11 reviews
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS8,252
- Suburb of Milwaukee, WI
- 9 reviews
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS11,535
- Suburb of Milwaukee, WI
- 9 reviews
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS11,481
- Suburb of Milwaukee, WI
- 14 reviews
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS9,187
- A - New Berlin
- A - Butler
- A - Sussex
- A - Wales
- A - Merton
- A - Genesee
- A - Nashotah
- A - Chenequa
- A - Greendale
- A -Saukville
- A - Lisbon
- A - Franklin
- A - Big Bend
- A - Mount Pleasant
- A - Mukwonago
- A - Muskego
- Suburb of Milwaukee, WI
- 22 reviews
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS24,529
- B+
- B+ Oak Creek
- Suburb of Milwaukee, WI
- 74 reviews
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS34,974
- B+ Elmwood Park
- Suburb of Milwaukee, WI
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS448
- B+ Caledonia
- Suburb of Milwaukee, WI
- 28 reviews
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS24,659
- B+ Sturtevant
- Suburb of Milwaukee, WI
- 2 reviews
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS6,983
- B+ Wind Lake
- Suburb of Milwaukee, WI
- 7 reviews
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS5,384
- B Greenfield
- Suburb of Milwaukee, WI
- 65 reviews
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS37,113
- B Wind Point
- Suburb of Milwaukee, WI
- 1 review
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS1,749
- B Racine
- Town in Wisconsin
- 90 reviews
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS78,127
- B Norway
- Suburb of Milwaukee, WI
- DENSITYRural
- RESIDENTS8,025
- B Richfield
- Suburb of Milwaukee, WI
- 26 reviews
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS11,410
- B Hales Corners
- Suburb of Milwaukee, WI
- 2 reviews
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS7,756
- B Milwaukee
- City in Wisconsin
- 92 reviews
- DENSITYUrban
- RESIDENTS599,498
- B Jackson
- Town in Wisconsin
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS6,808
- B North Prairie
- Town in Wisconsin
- 4 reviews
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS2,281
- B North Bay
- Suburb of Milwaukee, WI
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS263
- B St. Francis
- Suburb of Milwaukee, WI
- 13 reviews
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS9,549
- B Dover
- Town in Wisconsin
- 2 reviews
- DENSITYRural
- RESIDENTS4,055
- B Waterford
- Town in Wisconsin
- 8 reviews
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS5,348
- B South Milwaukee
- Suburb of Milwaukee, WI
- 48 reviews
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS21,229
- B West Milwaukee
- Suburb of Milwaukee, WI
- 1 review
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS4,222
- B West Allis
- Town in Wisconsin
- 68 reviews
- DENSITYUrban
- RESIDENTS60,677
- B- Tichigan
- Suburb of Milwaukee, WI
- 15 reviews
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS5,524
- B- Erin
- Suburb of Milwaukee, WI
- 1 review
- DENSITYRural
- RESIDENTS3,768
- B- Cudahy
- Suburb of Milwaukee, WI
- 30 reviews
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS18,347
- B- Yorkville
- Town in Wisconsin
- DENSITYRural
- RESIDENTS3,097
- B+ Vernon
- Suburb of Milwaukee, WI
- 7 reviews
- DENSITYRural
- RESIDENTS7,639
- Lannon
- Suburb of Milwaukee, WI
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS1,108
- B+ Polk
- Town in Wisconsin
- 20 reviews
- DENSITYRural
- RESIDENTS3,930
- B+ Brown Deer
- Suburb of Milwaukee, WI
- 17 reviews
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS12,101
- B+ Germantown
- Suburb of Milwaukee, WI
- 19 reviews
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS19,830
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- Town in Wisconsin
- 2 reviews
- DENSITYRural
- RESIDENTS3,908
- B- Union Grove
- Town in Wisconsin
- 9 reviews
- DENSITYSuburban
- RESIDENTS4,891
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tom davis contributed to this report
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