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Best Performing Cities -- Small Cities


BPC’s small cities include the 203 less populated (relative to BPC’s large cities) US metropolitan areas. As large cities, small cities are further divided into five tiers based on their relative performance, with top-ranked cities in Tier 1 and bottom-ranked cities in Tier 5. The interactive figure below shows small cities’ rankings on the 12 components of the index.

BPC Small Cities' Rankings: Interactive Figure

To compare cities across the BPC’s 12 components or explore gains and drops in small cities’ rankings compared to previous year, click on the black buttons on the bottom of the figure.

BPC Report

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