WISCONSIN — U.S. News and World Report released its “Best Places to Live in the U.S.“ for 2024 to 2025, and three Wisconsin cities made the list. 

The report ranks 150 cities with help from data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the FBI, the U.S. Department of Labor as well as the U.S. News and World Report’s own internal resources. The data was compiled into four categories:

1. Quality of life index, which measures how satisfied people are with their daily lives in each city, as well as rime rates, quality of education, well-being, commuter index, quality and availability of health care, air quality index and Federal Emergency Management Agency National Risk Index. 
2. Value index, which measures how comfortably residents can afford to live in their city. This index is determined by housing affordability and price parity. 
3. Desirability index, which looks at whether people want to live in a specific city. To determine this, the report used a desirability survey, as well as looked at net migration to look at how many residents are moving to or away from a city, and if a city is attracting new residents. Weather temperateness and establishments were also taken into account. 
4. Job market index, which measures each city’s job market. This took unemployment rate and average salary into account.

From these categories, here how the following cities were ranked on the list:

• No. 12: Green Bay
• No. 14: Madison
• No. 112: Milwaukee

The top 10 out of 150 cities were:

• No. 1: Naples, Fla.
• No. 2: Boise, Ida.
• No. 3: Colorado Springs, Colo.
• No. 4: Greenville, S.C.
• No. 5: Charlotte, N.C.
• No. 6: Raleigh, N.C.
• No. 7: Huntsville, Ala.
• No. 8: Virginia Beach, Va. 
• No. 9: Austin, Texas
• No. 10: Boulder, Colo.

To read the full report, click here.