Top 10 Affordable Suburbs

BusinessWeek has again included West Des Moines in one of its "top communities" list. This time, it was named one of the Top Ten Most Affordable Suburbs, which factored livability (short commutes, low pollution, green space), education (well-educated residents, high test scores), crime (low personal and property crime), economy (high job growth, low unemployment rate, high family income), and affordability (median household income, cost of expenditures) into its ranking.

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