WalletHub Names Aurora No. 20 Best-Run City in America

WalletHub Names Aurora No. 20 Best-Run City in America

/ July 13, 2017 / Comments Off on WalletHub Names Aurora No. 20 Best-Run City in America / Awards and Recognition, Communities, Government, Quality of Life, Quirky and Fun, Taxpayers

In a recent study conducted by finance website WalletHub, the city of Aurora has been ranked as one of the Top 20 Best Run Cities in America. Overall, Aurora ranked 20th among 150 of the country’s largest cities.

Last year, WalletHub ranked Aurora the 18th best-run city in America.

“For the second consecutive year, Aurora has earn the distinction of being named in the Top 20 Best Run Cities in America,” said Mayor Richard C. Irvin. “We are very proud that our efforts are being recognized locally, regionally and nationally.”

To identify the cities that are managed well by their leaders, WalletHub’s analysts compared 150 of the largest U.S. cities across six key dimensions, including financial stability, education, health, safety, economy as well as infrastructure and pollution. These categories were then combined to construct an “Overall City Services” ranking.

“A well-run city isn’t just the product of efficient budgeting or well-supplied coffers. It is the fruit of countless other decisions, financial or otherwise, that are made on behalf of the public’s best interest,” said WalletHub officials.

Aurora ranked seventh in safety, 12th in education and 16th in health out of the 150 cities in the report. Its “quality of city services” rank was 22, and a “total budget per capita” rank was 32.

The No. 1 best-run city was Nampa, ID, population 81,557 as of the 2010 census, making it the largest city of Canyon County and the second-most populous city in Idaho.

Cities in the Top 20 with populations close to or greater than Aurora include Lincoln, NE (18), Virginia Beach, VA (17), Raleigh, NC (14), Louisville, KY (10), Lexington, KY (5), and Boise, ID (3).

WalletHub’s methodology ranks 33 key performance indicators grouped into six service categories, which is then measured against the city’s per-capita budget.

The “worst” cities include some big names. Washington, D.C., was the flat-out worst of 150, followed by Detroit, New York, San Francisco, Cleveland and Hartford. Chicago was the 11th-worst, with a “quality of city services” ranking of 129, and a “total budget per capita” rank of 136.

For more information about the study, visit this page of the Wallet Hub website.

WalletHub’s Top 20

1 Nampa, ID 20 1
2 Provo, UT 3 2
3 Boise, ID 6 3
4 Missoula, MT 63 4
5 Lexington-Fayette, KY 55 5
6 Las Cruces, NM 36 7
7 Billings, MT 44 9
8 Bismarck, ND 2 40
9 Fort Wayne, IN 69 8
10 Louisville, KY 87 6
11 Durham, NC 33 15
12 Fargo, ND 9 27
13 Sioux Falls, SD 8 31
14 Raleigh, NC 23 19
15 Huntington Beach, CA 1 48
16 Nashua, NH 10 29
17 Virginia Beach, VA 4 43
18 Lincoln, NE 21 30
19 Cedar Rapids, IA 11 39
20 Aurora, IL 22 32

WalletHub’s Bottom 20

131 Los Angeles, CA 50 145
132 Rochester, NY 83 139
133 Denver, CO 82 140
134 Long Beach, CA 59 144
135 St. Louis, MO 147 93
136 Philadelphia, PA 139 120
137 Atlanta, GA 119 138
138 Tacoma, WA 111 141
139 Gulfport, MS 107 142
140 Chicago, IL 129 136
141 Memphis, TN 143 131
142 Chattanooga, TN 94 146
143 Flint, MI 145 129
144 Oakland, CA 79 147
145 Hartford, CT 141 137
146 Cleveland, OH 146 133
147 San Francisco, CA 29 149
148 New York, NY 34 148
149 Detroit, MI 150 90
150 Washington, DC 102 150

 

 

 

 

 

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