FORT WAYNE, Ind. (ADAMS) – There is another national recognition for the city of Fort Wayne. According to a study by U.S. News & World Report, the Summit City is the fifth most affordable city in the country
The study used data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the FBI, and the U.S. Department of Labor, among other sources.
Fort Wayne was behind Youngstown, Ohio, Huntington, West Virginia & Ashland, Kentucky-Ohio, Huntsville, Alabama, and Hickory, North Carolina.
It measured the following factors:
Quality of life (measures how satisfied residents are with their daily lives)
Value of index (measures how comfortably the average resident can afford to live within their means)
Desirability (measures whether people want to live in a given metro area)
Job market (measures the strength of each metro area’s job market)
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