{"id":1747,"date":"2017-03-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/small-cities-that-have-people-talking\/"},"modified":"2017-03-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T00:00:00","slug":"small-cities-that-have-people-talking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/small-cities-that-have-people-talking\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Cities That Have People Talking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"38.646781789639\">\n<!--\n\n<pre>-->  <\/p>\n<div property=\"dc:description\" readability=\"29.863422291994\"><!--paging_filter--><\/p>\n<p>What makes a top-ranked small city so desirable? According to <a href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/estate-agents-nearby\/\">realtor<\/a>.com\u00ae\u2019s research team, it has a low unemployment rate, a crime rate below the national average, an affordable median <a href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/tips-for-house-price-negotiation\/\">home price<\/a>, and a majority of households that spend no more than 28 percent of their annual income on <a href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/property-center-nigeria\/\">housing<\/a> costs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"1.0185185185185\">\n<p><strong>Read more<\/strong>: <span class=\"l\">Where to Find the Best of Small-Town Living<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The research team ranked more than 500 towns with populations between 10,000 and 50,000. The median home price of its top 10 small towns ranged from $65,600 to $139,900 (the national median price is $250,000, for comparison).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The following are the top 10 most affordable small towns for 2017, as ranked by realtor.com\u00ae:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Mexico, Mo. <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Median home price: $65,600<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2. Guymon, Okla.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Median home price: $76,000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>3. Decatur, Ind.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Median home price: $81,900<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>4. Oskaloosa, Iowa<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Median home price: $98,500<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>5. Hereford, Texas<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Median home price: $98,900<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>6. Worthington, Minn.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Median home price: $119,900<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>7. Malvern, Ark.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Median home price: $120,000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>8.\u00a0Ionia, Mich.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Median home price: $124,000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>9.\u00a0Wapakoneta, Ohio<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Median home price: $127,500<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>10. Greensburg, Ind.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Median home price: $139,900<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Source: \u201cTop 10 Affordable Small Towns Where You\u2019d Actually Want to Live, 2017 Edition,\u201d realtor.com<\/em>\u00ae<em> (March 6, 2017)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/DailyRealEstateNews\/~3\/5vb9cNcTLqo\/small-cities-have-people-talking\"> link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What makes a top-ranked small city so desirable? According to realtor.com\u00ae\u2019s research team, it has a &hellip; <a title=\"Small Cities That Have People Talking\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/small-cities-that-have-people-talking\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Small Cities That Have People Talking<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[12908,543,617,344,8752,41,818],"class_list":["post-1747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opportunities-in-new-markets","tag-home","tag-home-buying-guide","tag-house","tag-housing","tag-most-affordable","tag-property","tag-real"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/5vb9cNcTLqo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}