Top Colorado cities with highest and lowest quality of life

A new study looked at the largest cities across the United States and determined what cities in each state had the highest and lowest quality of life. Some of the factors considered were the environment, air and water quality, health care access, physical and mental health, family and food security, safety and education.

How does Colorado look? It really depends on what city you live in, according to the data. The best quality of life city in Colorado is Castle Rock. Castle Rock ranked high in housing and infrastructure, economic stability and health care access. The worst quality of life city in the state? Pueblo.

Out of the top 500 cities in the U.S., here is where cities in Colorado rank by number out of 500, city name and overall score.

10	Castle Rock	68.16
40	Centennial	63.34
44	Broomfield	63.19
48	Boulder	62.77
100	Denver	59.86
112	Fort Collins	59.51
138	Loveland	57.89
152	Longmont	57.38
153	Arvada	57.37
170	Lakewood	56.70
186	Westminster	56.18
208	Colorado Springs	55.63
274	Aurora	53.48
280	Greeley	53.38
304	Thornton	52.47
376	Pueblo	49.39

As far as looking at all 500 of the largest cities and the best quality of life, the honor for the number one spot goes to Redmond, Wash.

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