WalletHub Says Sioux Falls among Best Cities to Raise a Family

The personal finance website WalletHub is out with its 2018 list of 'Best and Worst Places to Raise a Family' - and (to the surprise of no one who lives here) Sioux Falls made the top ten, coming in eighth on the list.

To determine the most family-friendly places in America, WalletHub researchers compared more than 180 cities in areas such as housing affordability to school-system quality to the number of families with young kids.

Here's how Sioux Falls came out compared to all the other cities in the study:

Raising a Family in Sioux Falls

(1=Best; 91=Average):

49^th – % of Families with Young Kids
17^th – Median Family Salary (Adjusted for Cost of Living)
6^th– Housing Affordability
1^st– Unemployment Rate
30^th– % of Two-Parent Families
32^nd– % of Families Living in Poverty
28^th– Separation & Divorce Rate
73^rd– Violent-Crime Rate per Capita

Overland Park, Kansas finished in first place, followed by Irvine, California; Fremont, California; South Burlington, Vermont; Bismarck, North Dakota; Plano, Texas; Fargo, North Dakota; Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Huntington Beach, California and rounding out the top-ten Gilbert, Arizona.

To read the complete report on all 180 cities included in the study, go to the WalletHub website.

WalletHub Says Sioux Falls among the Best Cities to Raise a Family