When choosing a city to call home there are many factors to take into consideration, but it all comes down to personal preferences.  Although we can’t say which is the best city in the U.S., we wanted to find out which one is the most prosperous, based on the improvements it witnessed from 2000 to 2016. We took into consideration cities with populations exceeding 100,000 and six indicators: the median income, home values, share of inhabitants holding a higher education degree, poverty rate, unemployment rate and changes in population size.

Key findings from our latest study:

Only 11 out of more than 300 cities have registered improvements across all prosperity indicators between 2000 and 2016.

Atlanta is one of the 11 cities that witnessed positive changes in all the prosperity indicators. From 2000 to 2016, the population increased by 10% and the unemployment decreased by 26%.

California has the highest concentration of highly prosperous large cities, with six cities in the top-20, more than the entire Northeast combined.

Check out our interactive map and the full study here: https://www.rentcafe.com/blog/rental-market/market-snapshots/prosperous-cities-usa/.