If your town, city, or metro earned its place in our Best Places to Live ranking, show it off. The badge displays your area’s current standing, updates itself when the rankings refresh each year, and takes one paste to add to your site.
Rankings computed across 53,313 US places and 40 measures by the BestNeighborhood data science team.
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Search any US metro area, city, town, or state.
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The badge links to your area’s page here, which is how visitors can verify the ranking is real. Keeping that credit link is the one condition of use, and you are welcome to add rel=”nofollow” to it if your site’s policy calls for that.
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Download the badge as SVG and host it yourself. A downloaded copy shows this year’s ranking permanently; the embed code above stays current on its own.
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How the ranking works
Every place is scored on 40 measures drawn from our national datasets, from crime rates and school quality to cost of living, air quality, and commute times, then ranked within its tier: metro areas, cities, small cities, towns, and states. The full methodology, the complete rankings, and a tool to weight the measures your own way are on the Best Places to Live in the US page.
Common questions
Is it really free? Yes. The only requirement is the credit link in the embed code, and you may qualify it with rel=”nofollow” if you prefer.
What does the badge show? Your area’s current standing: its national rank for top-ranked places, or its standing among all US places in its tier. When rankings refresh, the badge updates on its own.
Who can use it? Anyone with a site about the area: city and county sites, tourism bureaus, chambers of commerce, real estate teams, community organizations, local blogs. We ask that the badge not be used in contexts that are misleading, hateful, or discriminatory, and we may withdraw permission where it is.
My area’s ranking seems low. Can I still use it? Yes, the generator works for every ranked place. The badge shows the real number, so it is up to you whether it is one worth displaying.