HUNTINGTON BEACH PIER (Flickr/Corey Thompson).
If you live in Huntington Beach or Garden Grove, you live in one of best cities in the United States to raise a family.
That’s the opinion, anyway, of the marketing firm wallethub.com, which released its findings on Tuesday.
Among the cities with a population of at least 150,000 residents, Huntington Beach is ranked 11th in the nation. Garden Grove is ranked 48th.
GARDEN GROVE, home of the Christ Cathedral (OC Diocese photo).
Other Orange County cities rated are Irvine (fourth), Anaheim (102nd) and Santa Ana (123rd).
The top-ranked cities are Fremont (California), Overland Park (Kansas), Plano (Texas), and South Burlington (Vermont)
San Diego is 10th, San Jose is 13th, San Francisco is 21st and Santa Rosa is 30th,
Cities are rated based on “family fun,” health and safety, education and child care, and affordability.
Huntington Beach ranked fourth in the nation for education and child care. Garden Grove was not far behind in ninth place.
Affordability dragged those cities’ scores down, and Huntington Beach was 103rd and Garden Grove – surprisingly – was 173rd.
Wallethub has often ranked Surf City and the Big Strawberry highly in its surveys. In its ranking of the safest cities in the nation in October 2024, Irvine was 11th, Garden Grove 35th and Huntington Beach 36th.
In July 2022, Huntington Beach was ranked as the best-run city in the nation on the basis of its quality of services. In March of 2021, Huntington Beach was 33rd “happiest” city in the nation with Garden Grove in 40th place. Irvine took 13th.
Here’s the complete post: https://wallethub.com/edu/best-cities-for-families/4435..
