The Small Town
THAT EXCELS
STORY BY Scott Cutlip
PHOTOGRAPHY BY Morgan Skaggs
Greenwood Named Top 10 City In January, the website HomeSnacks (https:// www.homesnacks.net/best-places-to-livein-arkansas-122274/) , which combines information from the Census, FBI, and other sources to rank communities in the United States, published their report for the top 10 cities in Arkansas, with Greenwood listed as number 10 (after being listed as number 5 in
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2019). Criteria included jobs, housing, safety, education, and affordability, among others. In addition, HomeSnacks ranked Greenwood the second safest city and the seventh cheapest in Arkansas. Additionally, the Safewise website (https://www.safewise.com/blog/ safest-cities-arkansas/), which also places Greenwood as Arkansas’s second safest city,
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lists Greenwood as having Arkansas’s lowest property crime rate. In October, 247wallst. com listed Greenwood as number 19 in the nation’s most affordable places with the best schools. We turned to some of the members of the Greenwood community to explain why Greenwood is a top 10 city.
