Rochester has been recognized for being awesome, again.

The Med-City has been ranked as the ninth happiest mid-sized city in America by career website zippia.com. The article cites our short commute time which is only 16 minutes on average and our low unemployment rate as reasons for happiness.

Other factors used to rank cities included:

  • Being well educated
  • Having a job
  • A short commute to work
  • Low cost of living
  • Having a family
  • Owning a home
  • The poverty rate

Rochester scored pretty high in all of those categories.

The ten happiest mid-sized cities are:

  1. Lee’s Summit, MO
  2. Broken Arrow, OK
  3. Mount Pleasant, SC
  4. Newton, MA
  5. Carmel , IN
  6. Fishers, IN
  7. Highlands Ranch, CO
  8. O’Fallon, MO
  9. Rochester, MN
  10. Livonia, MI

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