PROVIDENCE – The Providence metropolitan area was ranked among the bottom 10 for living by millennials, according to a study of 75 metro areas released by Apartment List Inc. Thursday.
The study examined the strength of a metro area’s job market (wages, wage growth and millennial unemployment rate), affordability (median rents, the share of households that can afford the median-price home in their metro area) and livability (a survey of 24,000 renters on weather, access to parks, community activities and nightlife, opportunities to date and make friends, and safety and crime rates.)
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Providence received its lowest rating for the surveyed livability metric, scoring a 13 out of 100. The metro area also rated low for affordability, scoring a 29 out of 100. The Providence metro’s job score ranked a bit higher, with a score of 57.
Four New England metro areas scored in the bottom 10 in the study, including Bridgeport, Conn., Worcester, Mass., Providence and New Haven, Conn. The study noted that Northeast cities suffered in the study from “low livability.”
Pittsburgh ranked No. 1 on the list, followed by Provo, Utah, Madison, Wis., and San Antonio.
Washington, D.C., was rated the highest in the nation for its job score; Syracuse, N.Y., scored the highest of any metro area for affordability, while Charleston, S.C., scored the highest on the livability survey.
Riverside, Calif., scored the lowest in the study of any metro area in the country.
The study used median wage data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, unemployment data from the U.S. Census Bureau, Apartment List’s rent estimates and data from Harvard JCHS 2017 State of the Nation’s Housing Report.
