Shoreline ranked in the top 100 in Money’s list of America’s best small cities

After regularly being featured in local magazines over the years, the City of Shoreline is now recognized nationally as a great place to live. In CNN Money’s America’s Best Places to Live 2010 list of small American cities, Shoreline is number 64 of 100.

“It is a great honor to make the list of top 100 small American cities, especially in Shoreline’s short history as a city. Our involved and active community has wisely guided the City of Shoreline in improving our area’s quality of life,” says Shoreline Mayor Keith McGlashan. “Shoreline residents deserve credit for their hard work at building a great community that is being recognized nationally.”

The list debuted on CNN Money’s website on July 12 and included a short write-up on each of the 100 cities, with longer features on the top 10. These top 10 – including Bellevue – will be featured in the August issue of Money magazine. Only two cities in Washington State made it onto the top 100 list –Shoreline and Bellevue.

From Shoreline’s entry:

“This relatively new town outside Seattle offers gorgeous views from sandy beaches of the Puget Sound and countless parks for its residents to roam through.”

Cities were placed on the list and ranked on a long list of quantitative data that helps gauge quality of city living such as housing prices, median incomes, crime rates, schools and the fiscal responsibility of the city government.

The data is available at Money.CNN and visitors can compare cities under categories such as Financial, Quality of Life and Housing. Under Quality of Life, for example, there are statistics on crime, air quality and commute times.

Over the years Shoreline has regularly been featured in the top 10 of Seattle magazine’s Best Neighborhoods list, ranking number one in 2005 and 2008. Earlier this year Seattle Met magazine also recognized Shoreline and one of its neighborhoods, Richmond Beach, as two of its list of 15 “must-live” neighborhoods.

From Tavia Tan, City of Shoreline