Dallas is earning new acclaim on U.S. News and World Report’s just-released list of the best U.S. cities for retirees in 2027. <\/p>\n
The 2027 Best Places to Retire<\/a> list evaluated over 850 U.S. cities based on six livability metrics that best serve American retirees: quality of life, affordability, health care, retiree taxes, job market, and population and migration. The top 250 finalist cities were then ranked nationally and by city size.<\/p>\n Midland, Michigan topped the list for the second consecutive year and is followed by Homosassa Springs, Florida (No. 2) and Weirton, West Virginia (No. 3).<\/p>\n Dallas ranked as the 21st best large<\/a> U.S. city to retire for 2027, while neighboring Fort Worth ranked 7th nationally.<\/p>\n U.S. News said affordability is the “most considered factor” when it comes to picking the best place to live a low-stress retirement life, and that’s what Dallas<\/a> and its neighbors<\/a> deliver. Affordable cities give retirees “a sense of security and comfort as they live out their golden years,” according to Megan Wood, U.S. News assistant managing editor of home services and real estate.<\/p>\n “It\u2019s no secret that affordability is top of mind for Americans this year, which is why U.S. News updated its weighting criteria to better align with what retirees prioritize,” Wood said. “The 2027 rankings reflect key metrics used to highlight the places that According to the city’s profile<\/a> on U.S. News, Dallas offers a lower cost of living compared to “similarly sized metro areas” and boasts a slightly lower home value compared to the national average.<\/p>\n “The national average home value is $359,870, while the median home value in Dallas is $354,396,” the profile said.<\/p>\n Flower Mound is the only Dallas-Fort Worth city that appears among the overall top 50 best places to retire for 2027, ranking 43rd nationally. But it’s a six-place drop from last year’s ranking<\/a> when the suburb last ranked 37th.<\/p>\n Eight more DFW cities ranked in the overall top 250:<\/p>\n No. 131 \u2013 McKinneyNo. 174 \u2013 AllenNo. 190 \u2013 Little ElmNo. 203 \u2013 FriscoNo. 216 \u2013 North Richland HillsNo. 222 \u2013 CarrolltonNo. 243 \u2013 WylieNo. 246 \u2013 Plano<\/p>\n Elsewhere in Texas, Houston neighbors The Woodlands and Spring respectively maintained their standings as the No. 4 and No. 5 overall best cities for retirees for the second year in a row<\/a>. The Woodlands topped the separate list of the best midsized<\/a> U.S. cities to retire, while Spring landed 5th among the smallest<\/a> U.S. cities.<\/p>\n These are the top 10 best large U.S. cities to retire for 2027:<\/p>\n No. 1 \u2013 Jacksonville, FloridaNo. 2 \u2013 Houston, TexasNo. 3 \u2013 Oklahoma City, OklahomaNo. 4 \u2013 El Paso, TexasNo. 5 \u2013 Raleigh, North CarolinaNo. 6 \u2013 Indianapolis, IndianaNo. 7 \u2013 Fort Worth, TexasNo. 8 \u2013 San Antonio, TexasNo. 9 \u2013 Albuquerque, New MexicoNo. 10 \u2013 Phoenix, Arizona<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas is earning new acclaim on U.S. News and World Report’s just-released list of the best U.S. cities…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15748,161799,102,104,103,1256,116,9670,17506],"class_list":["post-479513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-best-cities","tag-best-retirement-cities","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-flower-mound","tag-fort-worth","tag-retirement","tag-us-news-world-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479513","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=479513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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