CHART: RI’s Best Communities 2012, From #1 to #39

Friday, June 29, 2012

Scott O'Leary, GoLocalProv Best Communities Contributor

How did Rhode Island's cities and towns break down, data-wise, in the 2012 Best Communities analysis? See some of the data GoLocal used for its assessment, and see how your community fared, compare it to others, and see the details that went into each city's and town's rankings. Want more information on how this data was utilized in our rankings? Read more, here.

RI's Best Communities 2012

All data reflects the most current version available as of June 15, 2012. Education scores reflect percent of students scoring above proficiency on NECAP standardized testing for 2011. Jamestown's 11th grade data is based on North Kingstown's data report because Jamestown high schoolers attend North Kingstown's high school. Little Compton's 11th grade data is based on Portsmouth's data report because Little Compton high schoolers attend Portsmouth. For more information on how this data was sourced, evaluated, and weighted, see How We Got the Rankings, here.

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Comments:

Doug Allen

11:26am on Friday, June 29, 2012

You can show all the charts you want, but as a long time resident of the Town of Lincoln, how about some "on the ground" footwork. Very simple question. Would you rather live in the #29 community, Lincoln, or the #28 community, West Warwick. Honestly.

Harry Smith

10:17pm on Friday, June 29, 2012

Last year, according to your chart, Scituate had a "effective" tax rate of $12.21. This year, $32.00. Really? Did you forget that Scituate's property taxes are calculated based on 50% of the property's value? The 2011 residential rate is $32.73, which would "effectively" be $16.36.

Could you provide a link to the State of Rhode Island Municipal Finance Department of Revenue data? The newest I could find is from 2008 (where Scituate's effective rate is $11.76).

Gary Arnold

10:15am on Saturday, June 30, 2012

Very discouraging, even the top rated have poor education attainment. What are the kids to do in RI when the majority of them are not being educated to compete in today’s environment?
Are KIDS #1 in RI, looks like they are NOT.
So many cities/towns with so much redundancy, duplicated costs, political overhead, waste and misuse of tax dollars, kind of makes you feel like we are standing in quicksand.
The biggest problem is that the locals refute their ratings verse taking a proactive corrective action to identify the problems and correcting them.

pearl fanch

8:16am on Sunday, July 01, 2012

Doug, I agree. You have towns like Lincoln, Johnston and North Providence, all rated in the high 20's and 30's, and then you have Providence at #3?????????????????????????

You find me ONE person (who isn't homeless) that would rather be in Providence than one of those three towns. This rating system has too much emphasis on night life. Remember, with night life....especially in Providence, comes crime, shootings and murders.

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