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Best Cities for Seniors - complete list

(Note: scores indicate percentile rankings within each category; 100 is highest, 1 is lowest)

	Metro area	Health	Trans.	Housing	Social	Crime	Envir.	Econ.	Disease	Spiritual
1	Portland-Vancouver, OR-WA	97	81	46	53	44	40	85	59	34
2	Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA	100	73	36	38	46	97	32	77	28
3	San Francisco, CA	69	100	4	48	73	100	28	81	18
4	Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI	93	97	42	55	65	77	79	44	57
5	Pittsburgh, PA	12	93	85	89	91	57	51	20	97
6	Philadelphia, PA-NJ	59	53	40	95	83	4	38	16	69
7	Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN	95	36	77	61	57	10	34	10	83
8	New York, NY	1	95	10	100	87	63	1	36	46
9	Boston, MA-NH-ME	38	85	12	93	89	67	81	55	79
10	Chicago, IL	6	79	30	97	42	28	10	30	44
11	Detroit, MI	61	12	93	85	48	53	12	1	20
12	Cleveland-Lorain-Elyria, OH	46	48	87	81	79	55	6	18	77
13	Salt Lake City-Ogden, UT	81	63	95	2	61	85	71	97	100
14	Indianapolis, IN	89	8	91	42	71	8	48	4	75
15	Kansas City, MO-KS	83	14	73	65	4	6	16	57	89
16	New Orleans, LA	44	24	100	36	28	48	8	2	42
17	Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA	10	61	26	91	67	44	4	63	40
18	Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI	53	77	32	77	75	89	69	93	65
19	Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point, NC	85	6	89	32	36	22	53	38	93
20	Denver, CO	40	75	63	51	51	65	42	95	16
	Metro area	Health	Trans.	Housing	Social	Crime	Envir.	Econ.	Disease	Spiritual
21	Houston, TX	24	91	61	30	20	1	26	24	36
22	St. Louis, MO-IL	28	32	79	73	22	20	63	28	87
23	Providence-Fall River-Warwick, RI-MA	63	71	28	67	85	51	40	46	67
24	Nashville, TN	71	4	97	22	16	46	44	34	95
25	Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV	34	57	24	87	69	73	100	83	55
26	Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC	91	10	67	10	38	26	93	79	81
27	Columbus, OH	65	22	65	40	18	32	24	6	48
28	San Diego, CA	79	46	18	59	77	81	67	75	10
29	Austin-San Marcos, TX	87	51	44	1	63	59	55	85	51
30	Orlando, FL	51	59	57	26	12	34	83	67	32
31	San Antonio, TX	57	55	75	4	2	42	59	61	71
32	Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News, VA-NC	67	18	69	16	53	83	95	8	30
33	Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL	14	30	59	75	8	71	87	69	26
34	Newark, NJ	18	83	6	79	81	38	57	22	59
35	Phoenix-Mesa, AZ	22	34	81	34	6	79	73	89	22
36	Atlanta, GA	16	20	55	69	40	2	65	40	53
37	Fort Worth-Arlington, TX	55	2	83	8	24	24	22	32	73
38	San Jose, CA	73	89	8	6	93	69	2	100	8
39	Baltimore, MD	26	40	20	71	26	95	91	14	38
40	Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC	48	1	71	28	10	12	46	53	91
41	Fort Lauderdale, FL	32	87	34	18	55	18	77	42	4
42	Las Vegas, NV-AZ	36	65	51	12	30	91	97	12	1
43	Oakland, CA	77	26	14	46	32	14	14	65	14
44	Dallas, TX	20	38	53	57	12	16	20	51	63
45	Orange County, CA	75	28	16	20	95	61	75	91	6
46	Sacramento, CA	42	44	38	14	34	87	18	48	12
47	Riverside-San Bernardino, CA	30	16	48	24	59	30	36	26	24
48	Nassau-Suffolk, NY	2	67	1	83	100	93	30	73	61
49	Miami, FL	4	69	22	44	1	75	89	87	2
50	Bergen-Passaic, NJ	8	42	2	63	97	36	61	71	85
	Metro area	Health	Trans.	Housing	Social	Crime	Envir.	Econ.	Disease	Spiritual