Beaverton Named a Top City for Raising Kids

Posted by Jmartens on Nov 18th, 2009 and filed under Southwest. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

Business Week magazine recently came out with their annual list of top American cities for raising kids and Beaverton made the 2010 list. Beaverton joins Tinley Park, Illinois, Arcadia, California and Honolulu, Hawaii just to name a few.

From Business Week:

Beaverton, Oregon

Nearest city: Portland

Population: 87,676

Median family income: $78,946

Runners-up: Corvallis, Eugene

Beaverton, seven miles west of Portland, has a park located within a half-mile of every resident, a 25-mile network of bike paths, nearby ski slopes, beaches, and shopping areas. The highly-regarded public and private schools send students to top-ranked universities.

Read the whole story at Yahoo! Real Estate.

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