City: Montgomery
State: Alabama
Best Cities Overall Rank: 56
About Montgomery:
Montgomery is home to one of the world's largest Shakespeare festivals. More than 300,000 visitors attend each year.
Montgomery is rich in Civil Rights history and home to the Civil Rights Memorial and the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Church, where Martin Luther King, Jr. once preached.
County: Montgomery
Population: 202,696
Official website for city visitors' bureau/city: Visitors' bureau website
Newspaper with the largest circulation: Montgomery Advertiser
Montgomery blogs:
The Princess and the Pork Chop
Montgomery's Facebook page: Follow Montgomery on Facebook
Montgomery's Twitter page: Follow Montgomery on Twitter
Education rank: 87
Alabama High School graduation rate 2008: 83%
Blue Ribbon Schools, 2003-2009: 2
Blue Ribbon Schools per 100,000 people: 0.99
NEAYC-accredited preschools: 11
NAEYC schools per 100,000 people: 5.43
NAEP State proficiency reading, grade 8: 255
Pupil/Teacher Ratio: 16.1
Total Expenditures Per Student: $8,797
Health rank: 93
Quality children's hospitals: 0
Hospitals per 100,000 people: 0
Quality Pediatricians: 0
Quality Pediatricians per 100,000: 0
Average number of Unhealthy Air Quality days between 2006-2008, by county: 0.66
Safety rank: 21
Violent Crimes, 2008: 883
Violent Crime Rate per 100,000: 435.62
Sex Offenders: 326
Sex Offenders per 100,000: 160.83
Economy rank: 51
Travel time to work, 2006-2008, in minutes: 18.6
Percent of labor force unemployed, January 2010: 11.2
Best Performing Cities Job Index: 987.87
Median Home Sale Price: $123,000
Percent of homes sold for a loss: 14.01%
Recreation Rank: 67
Parkland acreage, 2008 (includes pools and playgrounds): 1,562.90
Parkland per 100,000: 771.06
