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A WalletHub study ranked 1,318 small U.S. cities based on livability factors like safety and housing costs.
Several Arizona cities ranked poorly, with Sun City and Bullhead City placing in the bottom third percentile.
Bessemer, Alabama, was identified as the worst small town in America according to the study.
A new WalletHub study took a deep dive into small-town living across the United States, and Arizona didn’t exactly come out on top.
WalletHub is a personal finance website that analyzes data to rank cities, states and financial products on different factors. In a recent study, WalletHub analyzed 1,318 cities with populations between 25,000 and 100,000, comparing them across 45 factors of livability, including housing costs, education, safety, quality of li