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Massachusetts Named 2024’s Best State to Raise a Family

Author Beasley Media Editorial

Massachusetts is known for a lot of things: our sports, clam chowder, pahking cahs (most frequently by Hahvahd Yahd), and now raising families. But as soon as that family gets in the family car and hops in traffic, things get a little less kumbaya. Back to that previous point – Massachusetts was just named the best state for raising families in 2024. Go us!!

WalletHub released the study which took factors such as family fun, health and safety, education and child care, affordability, and socio-economics into consideration to create their annual list of the best states (and worst) to raise a family. From those five categories, researchers graded all 50 states using 50 key indicators, ranging from median annual family income and housing affordability to unemployment rate. After all factoring had been factored in, the five worst states to raise a family in 2024 are Arkansas, Alabama, West Virginia, Mississippi and New Mexico. And on the flip side of that, the best state to raise a family in 2024 is… Massachusetts!

New England did very well overall, with 5 of the 6 New England states making WalletHub’s Top 10. Vermont finished at #10, Rhode Island at #9, New Hampshire finished at #7, Maine at #6, and as we’ve already discussed Massachusetts took the nation’s top spot. Connecticut, the only New England state that didn’t finish in the Top 10 came in at #12. Not too shabby at all.

Massachusetts came in first in the US for education and child care and had an overall score of 66.97. To give a little perspective, North Dakota finished last in the country with an overall score of 30.47.

So there’s the good news: Massachusetts is the best state in America to raise a family in in 2024. It’s great to live in New England!! That is… unless you’re trying to find a job in these 3 New England cities…
A new study just came out listing off all the best and worst cities in the US to try to find a job right now and these were 3 of the worst in America.

Study: The 3 Worst Cities in New England to Find a Job

  • WORST NEW ENGLAND CITIES TO FIND A JOB IN - #3

    WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS
    Worcester was named the 3rd worst city in New England for finding a job. This is a bummer since I really feel like Worcester is on the up-and-up. I’m nobody but I predict a Worcester boom over the next 5 years. Call me Nostradamus.

  • WORST NEW ENGLAND CITIES TO FIND A JOB IN - #2

    NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT
    New Haven is currently the 2nd worst place for finding a job in New England. But that pizza. So good.

  • WORST NEW ENGLAND CITIES TO FIND A JOB IN - #1

    BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT
    Bridgeport is the worst city for finding a new job in New England according to the study. It finished 10th worst in the entire country.

  • WANT TO SEE THE BEST NEW ENGLAND CITIES TO GET A JOB?

    We had more New England cities make the BEST than WORST list, thankfully. Check them out RIGHT OVER HERE!

Jackson Blue has been on Boston airwaves for over 20 years. He is a foodie family person with a passion for having fun forever. Jackson likes to write about food, restaurants, Massachusetts and Boston happenings.

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