Oak Creek Considered One Of America's Best Small Cities: Report

OAK CREEK, WI — Oak Creek earned a spot on a list of the Best Small Cities To Live In last week. A few cities from Wisconsin made the WalletHub list and Oak Creek came in among the top half of the best small cities to live in.

The study compared cities that had a population between 25,000 and 100,000. Rankings were put together with 43 different liveability factors such as housing costs, quality of school districts, household incomes, unemployment rates and other quality of life measures.

Oak Creek came in with 60.6 points. The city that ranked highest on the list, Sammamish, Washington, received 72.55 points.

Oak Creek's ranking puts it ahead of 60 percent of other cities when it comes to the best small city to live in. Wisconsin didn't quite reach into the top ten for WalletHub's ranking, though, Massachusetts took the cake for that.

Here are WalletHub's top 10 Best Small Cities In America:

1. Sammamish, Wash. (Total score: 72.55)
2. Carmel, Ind. (Total score: 71.79)
3. Brentwood, Tenn. (Total score: 71.57)
4. Lexington, Mass. (Total score: 71.54)
5. Reading, Mass. (Total score: 71.13)
6. Zionsville, Ind. (Total score: 70.92)
7. Portland, Maine (Total score: 70.66)
8. Milton, Mass. (Total score: 70.66)
9. Melrose, Mass. (Total score: 70.65)
10. Dublin, Ohio (Total score: 70.44)

See the complete rankings and read more about the study's methodology on WalletHub.com.

Lucas Combos, Patch Staff, contributed to writing and reporting in this article.