{"id":241864,"date":"2026-04-09T11:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/241864\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T11:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:21:08","slug":"austin-ranked-among-best-cities-to-live-4-texas-cities-scored-higher-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/241864\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin ranked among best cities to live; 4 Texas cities scored higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Austin ranked among the best places to live in the U.S. in a new report \u2014 but several other Texas cities scored higher.<\/p>\n<p>Niche \u2014 formerly known as College Prowler \u2014 evaluates cities using 15 metrics, including public schools, crime rates, housing, jobs and access to amenities. The data draws from sources such as the U.S. Census, FBI, Bureau of Labor Statistics and CDC.<\/p>\n<p>Austin earned high marks for lifestyle and diversity but lagged in affordability and housing:<\/p>\n<p>Among 229 cities analyzed, Austin also ranked No. 15 for young professionals and No. 40 for raising a family.<\/p>\n<p>Five Texas cities placed ahead of Austin in the national rankings:<\/p>\n<p>Top 10 cities in the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Austin ranked among the best places to live in the U.S. in a new report \u2014 but several&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-241864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241864","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=241864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}