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CNN Money Magazine's Best
Places To Live 2007
Downtown Traverse City
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CONTENDER
Traverse City, MI
Top 100 rank: N/A
Population: 15,600
Compare Traverse City to Top 10 Best Places
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City stats |
Best places avg. |
Median family income
(per year) |
$54,666 |
$90,316 |
Family purchasing power
(annual,
cost-of-living adjusted) |
$52,868 |
$82,867 |
| Sales tax |
6.00% |
6.74% |
State income tax rate
(highest
bracket) |
3.90%I |
6.38% |
State income tax rate
(lowest
bracket) |
3.90%I |
2.74% |
Auto insurance premiums
(Average for
the state) |
$2,111 |
$2,121 |
Job growth %
(2000-2006) |
8.25% |
13.41% |
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City stats |
Best places average |
| Average home price |
n/a |
$359,352 |
Average property taxes
(2006) |
$1,885 |
$3,585 |
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City stats |
Best places average |
Colleges, universities
and
professional schools
(within 30 miles) |
n/a |
29 |
Junior colleges and
technical institutes
(within 30 miles) |
1 |
18 |
Test scores reading
(%
above/below state average) |
9.0% |
20.1% |
Test scores math
(%
above/below average) |
12.0% |
24.8% |
% students attending
public/private
schools
(located within town limits) |
77.4/22.6 |
91.1/8.9 |
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City stats |
Best places average |
Air quality index*
(% of days
AQI ranked as good) |
n/a |
77.3% |
| Personal crime incidents
(per 1,000) |
4 |
1.3 |
| Property crime incidents
(per 1,000) |
27 |
20.6 |
Median commute time
(in minutes) |
12.0 |
23.1 |
% population with
commute
45 mins. or longer |
5.7% |
15.6% |
| % population walk or
bike to work |
7.4% |
2.7% |
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City stats |
Best places average |
Movie theaters
(within 15
miles) |
5 |
30 |
Restaurants
(within 15
miles) |
266 |
2,899 |
Bars
(within 15
miles) |
31 |
287 |
Public golf courses
(within 30
miles) |
37 |
125 |
Libraries
(within 15
miles) |
11 |
71 |
Museums
(accredited by AAM;
within 30 miles) |
n/a |
11 |
| Ski resorts
(within 100 miles) |
22 |
17 |
| Arts funding
(Dollars per person
of state funds spent on arts) |
1 |
1 |
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City stats |
Best places average |
Annual rainfall
(inches) |
33.47 |
40.18 |
| % clear days in the area |
18 |
28 |
| High temp in July ° F |
81.2° |
86.1° |
| Low temp in Jan ° F |
14.4° |
24.0° |
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City stats |
Best places average |
Has health plan
(% of
residents) |
88.3% |
90.5% |
| Body mass index
(avg. for residents) |
28 |
27 |
Diabetes rates
(% of
residents diagnosed) |
7.1% |
9.3% |
Hypertension rates
(% of
residents diagnosed) |
38.8% |
30.6% |
| Elder-care facilities** |
8 |
107 |
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City stats |
Best places average |
| Median age |
39.5 |
36.8 |
Completed at least some
college
(% of
residents) |
68.9% |
72.4% |
| Married |
44.7% |
60.8% |
| Divorced |
13.5% |
8.0% |
Racial diversity index
(100 is
national average; higher numbers indicate greater diversity) |
14.2 |
59.2 |
Amount spent on
vacations
(domestic and
foreign, household avg. per year) |
$6,861 |
$8,250 |
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*County data
**Elder-care services refer to skilled nursing and assisted
living facilities. Data from Total Living Choices.
(I) Income tax notes:
17 states have statutory provision for automatic adjustment
of tax brackets,
personal exemption or standard deductions to the rate of
inflation. Massachusetts,
Michigan, Nebraska and Ohio indexes the personal exemption
amounts only. |
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