{"id":173364,"date":"2026-02-20T20:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T20:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/173364\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T20:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T20:50:14","slug":"austin-named-best-capital-city-to-live-in-by-wallethub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/173364\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin named best capital city to live in by WalletHub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014\u00a0The city of Austin is the best capital city to live in the United States, according to a new study by <a href=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/best-state-capitals\/19030\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WalletHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The list evaluated the 50 capital cities in the country under four different metrics, affordability, economic well-being, quality of education and health and quality of life. Austin was ranked first in economics and quality of education and life, and WalletHub gave an in-depth explanation for the Texas capital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAustin offers both a safe and fun environment, with the second-highest life expectancy for residents and an extremely high number of attractions and restaurants per capita. It also provides a good environment for business, with new businesses opening at the second-highest rate in the country. It\u2019s also one of the most educated cities overall, with the fourth-highest percentage of residents ages 25+ with at least a bachelor\u2019s degree,\u201d the list stated.<\/p>\n<p>Austin was over four points above the second-place city, Raleigh, N.C., which itself was just above Atlanta. The lowest ranked city in the county was Jackson, Miss.<\/p>\n<p>Austin has also been honored in different ways, such as being the 87th best city in the world, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsbestcities.com\/rankings\/worlds-best-cities\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to<\/a> World\u2019s Best Cities, along with the greater state of Texas having some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/worldpopulationreview.com\/us-cities\/fastest-growing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fastest-growing cities<\/a> in the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014\u00a0The city of Austin is the best capital city to live in the United States, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[132,5604,223,36427,27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-173364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-what-you-need-to-know","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-rhett-brady","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-texas-headlines","14":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}