Featured City: Carmel, Indiana
Posted by RELadmin in Featured Articles on 12 22nd, 2008 | no responses
MONEY Magazine lists Carmel on its “Best Places to Live” list:
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Carmel, IN
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| Financial | ||
| City stats | Best places average | |
| Median family income (per year) |
$111,189 | $76,893 |
| Family purchasing power (annual, cost-of-living adjusted) |
$109,009 | $68,109 |
| Sales tax | 6.00% | 6.55% |
| State income tax rate (highest bracket) |
3.40% | 6.46% |
| State income tax rate (lowest bracket) |
3.40% | 2.74% |
| Auto insurance premiums (Average for the state) |
$1,868 | $2,207 |
| Job growth % (2000-2005) |
30.69% | 10.97% |
| Housing | ||
| City stats | Best places average | |
| Median home price | $278,768 | $259,566 |
| Home price gain (2004-2005) |
10.30% | 9.26% |
| Education | ||
| City stats | Best places average | |
| Colleges, universities and professional schools |
8 | 8 |
| Junior colleges and technical institutes |
0 | 0 |
| Test scores reading (% +/- state average) |
31.1% | 13.3% |
| Test scores math (% +/- state average) |
31.0% | 16.9% |
| % students attending public/private schools |
99.3/0.70 | 88.4/11.59 |
| Quality of life | ||
| City stats | Best places average | |
| Air quality index (% of days AQI ranked as good) |
75.0% | 71.9% |
| Personal crime risk (100 is nat’l average; lower is better) |
13 | 45 |
| Property crime risk (100 is nat’l average; lower is better) |
42 | 74 |
| Personal crime incidents (per 100,000) |
42 | 228 |
| Property crime incidents (per 100,000) |
2,160 | 3,105 |
| Median commute time (in minutes) |
21.0 | 20.8 |
| % population with commute 45 mins. or longer |
10.3% | 13.4% |
| Leisure and culture | ||
| City stats | Best places average | |
| Movie theaters (within 15 miles) |
25 | 22 |
| Restaurants (within 15 miles) |
2,158 | 2,268 |
| Bars (within 15 miles) |
156 | 127 |
| Public golf courses (within 30 miles) |
92 | 74 |
| Libraries (within 15 miles) |
38 | 43 |
| Museums (accredited by AAM within 30 miles) |
8 | 7 |
| Ski resorts (within 100 miles) | 1 | 10 |
| Weather | ||
| City stats | Best places average | |
| Annual precipitation (inches) |
42.85 | 36.00 |
| Clear days | 88 | 107 |
| Health* | ||
| City stats | Best places average | |
| Has health plan (% of residents) |
88.7% | 88.2% |
| Body mass index (avg. for residents) |
26 | 27 |
| Cancer mortality (per 100,000, age-adjusted) |
187.2 | 191.3 |
| Cardiac mortality (per 100,000) |
131.8 | 202.0 |
| Meet the neighbors | ||
| City stats | Best places average | |
| Median age | 37.2 | 34.5 |
| Completed at least some college (% of residents) |
85.3% | 63.9% |
| Married | 68.2% | 54.3% |
| Divorced | 6.9% | 9.3% |
| Amount spent on vacations (domestic and foreign, household avg. per year) |
$8,779 | $7,549 |
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