{"id":786532,"date":"2026-07-27T02:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T02:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/786532\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T02:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T02:38:14","slug":"cedar-rapids-named-22nd-best-run-city-in-america-by-wallethub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/786532\/","title":{"rendered":"Cedar Rapids named 22nd best-run city in America by WalletHub"},"content":{"rendered":"

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa \u2014 WalletHub recently ranked Cedar Rapids the 22nd best-run city<\/a> in the United States.<\/p>\n

Chip Lupo, a writer and analyst for the site, said the city’s medium size and responsible budgeting helped it earn the spot.<\/p>\n

“It just means that for the most part, people seem to be pretty satisfied with with the quality of service that they’re receiving,” Lupo said.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year the city was among the top 40 cities to raise a family by WalletHub<\/a>, and ranked in the top 100 best places to live by Livability<\/a>.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Cedar Rapids lands in WalletHub\u2019s top 40 best U.S. cities to raise a family<\/a><\/p>\n

WalletHub looked at data for each city’s financial health, education, safety, healthcare and economy. Lupo said Cedar Rapids also placed high because of its safety and strong economy.<\/p>\n

Cedar Rapids does very well in the safety aspect,” Lupo said. “Low crime rates, decent numbers of law enforcement per capita. The economy is doing reasonably well.<\/p>\n

Lupo said the outlet gathers their data from different sources.<\/p>\n

“Whether it’s through Federal Reserves or it’s all government or third party think tank data,” Lupo explained.<\/p>\n

Mayor Tiffany O’Donnell said she’s happy with the ranking.<\/p>\n

It’s always good to be noticed outside of your community,” O’Donnell said. “That being said, you know, we work every day without awards.<\/p>\n

Two areas Lupo identified where the city can improve are education and infrastructure. That was something residents like Evan Schmidtke, who runs the nonprofit Chain Reaction Bike Hub, agreed with.<\/p>\n

“I think the infrastructure in terms of biking and a pedestrian, and transit has made great strides over the past probably ten years,” Schmidtke said. “I think there’s definitely areas of opportunity.”<\/p>\n

O’Donnell pointed to investments in flood protection and road pavement projects, while explaining they take time to get done.<\/p>\n

“It really is a very complicated puzzle,” O’Donnell said. “And Infrastructure takes time.”<\/p>\n

The mayor agrees education is an area to work on, but said it’s not just a Cedar Rapids issue.<\/p>\n

I think the entire state of Iowa,” O’Donnell said. “We used to hang our hats on education, and we can’t do that anymore. That’s a problem.<\/p>\n

The only other Iowa community to make the list was Des Moines, who ranked 89th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa \u2014 WalletHub recently ranked Cedar Rapids the 22nd best-run city in the United States. Chip…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-786532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}