Recent rankings of cities or communities by different sources continue to include Naperville:

Since April, Naperville has made the grade in 2024 for being among the Top 100 Best Places to Live in the U.S. as determined by the publication “Livability; Safest Cities in America,” per the home security review site Safewise; Top Destinations for a “White Picket Fence” Lifestyle, from DatingNews.com; and Best Cities for Naked Gardening, from online platform LawnStarter…

Naperville earned a LivScore of 862 out of 1,000. There were only a handful of cities that received a higher score than Naperville on the 2024 ranking. Those were Carmel and Fishers in Indiana, Cary in North Carolina and Columbia in Maryland…

Last month, the site released its 10th annual safest cities report and placed Naperville in the No. 12 spot…

Naperville came in at No. 30. Several other Illinois cities also proved to be up to the bare snuff, with Chicago ranking No.11, followed by Evanston at No. 13, Elgin at No. 17, Schaumburg at No. 23 and Arlington Heights at No. 25.

Add these to the March 2024 ranking as Niche’s best place to live:

On Tuesday, the site released its 2024 lists for Best Places to Live in America. And for the first time ever, Naperville came out on top of the some 230 cities evaluated in this year’s rankings.

It was also named the No. 1 U.S. city to raise a family and the city with the best public schools.

Three things strike me about these rankings and sources:

1. Naperville is at the top of some lists and not others. There are thousands of communities in the United States.
2. There is a proliferation of rankings of communities. Why? I would guess it is due to the easier access to data about communities plus the rankings drive clicks and impressions.
3. With the growing number of rankings, will communities list all of them? Will Naperville claim all three of these?

In other words, we are a long ways from Naperville ranking as the #2 place to live according to Money in 2006.