By Gary Lloyd
TRUSSVILLE — Real estate website Movoto recently ranked the smartest cities in Alabama, based on certain criteria.
The website ranked cities in the state with populations that total more than 10,000 people. There are 61 of those statewide.
Criteria included colleges and universities per capita, libraries per capita, museums per capita, percentage of residents with a bachelor’s degree or higher, high school graduation rate and average K-12 class size.
A Trussville historical marker
file photo by Ron Burkett
For colleges, libraries, and museums, Movoto only considered those physically located within each place’s borders and used resources including www.publiclibraries.com and www.collegestats.org for its totals. The rest of the data came from the U.S. Census and American Community Survey.
Each place was scored from 1 to 61 based on these criteria, lower being better, and those individual scores were ultimately averaged into one overall Big Deal Score.
Trussville ranked 35th out of the 61 cities.
The top 10, in order, was Fairhope, Chelsea, Helena, Homewood, Calera, Vestavia Hills, Huntsville, Irondale, Muscle Shoals and Montgomery.
Trussville rated a 22 in colleges per capita, 34 in libraries per capita and 29 in museums per capita. Trussville did well in the college degree and high school graduation categories, scoring a 9 in both. Trussville rated a 59 in class size. The city’s Big Deal Score was 27. Fairhope’s was 15.5
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