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America's Most Livable Cities - Forbes Magazine
Zack O'Malley Greenburg, 04.01.09
Portland tops this year's list of America's Most Livable Cities. Bethesda, Md., and Des Moines, Iowa., round out the top three, followed by Bridgeport/Stamford, Conn., and Tulsa, Okla.
Behind the Numbers
To form our list, we looked at quality of life measures in the nation's largest continental U.S. metropolitan statistical areas--geographic entities defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget for use by federal agencies in collecting, tabulating and publishing federal statistics. We eliminated areas with populations smaller than 500,000 and assigned points to the remaining metro regions across five data sets: Five-year income growth per household and cost of living from Moody's Economy.com, crime data and leisure index from Sperling's Best Places, and annual unemployment statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Tulsa, Okla.
Metro Population: 910,000
Income Growth: 4.9% (No. 50 of 379)
Cost of Living Index: 90.6 (No. 171 of 379)
Culture Index: 72 (No. 105 of 379)
Crime per 100,000: 4,462 (No. 250 of 379)
Unemployment: 5.6% (No. 21 of 379)
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