Chattanooga is among the top 100 best places to live in America, according to a new study by Livability.com of more than 1,000 U.S. cities.
Chattanooga ranked No. 68 in the sixth annual ranking released Tuesday by the editors of the Top 100 Best Places to Live in America.
“Gig City’s got it going on,” the editors of Livability said about Chattanooga. “The city ranks high in infrastructure and housing, thanks in part to its easy access to other cities (under two hours you can be in Atlanta, Nashville and Knoxville) and affordability.”
Affordability ranked highest in the survey of 1,000 millennials across the country when Livability.com asked what mattered most in deciding where to live.
As a result, Livability didn’t include any city on the top 100 Best Places to Live list with a median home value of more than $250,000. Chattanooga’s median home price among single-family homes sold last year by Chattanooga Realtors was $187,000, up 6.9 percent from the previous year.