McAllen has been ranked number three of the top 15 cities in the United States for first-time homebuyers by the financial services website SmartAsset.com. Five Texas cities land among the top 15 places to buy a home for the first time. This study examined 185 metro areas and cities were ranked based on four metrics, composed of: Affordability: Median sale price relative to median income. Median sale price comes from Zillow…
McAllen is the third ranking safest city in the country for 2023 according to SmartAsset.com’s Top 10 Safest Cities list. The financial website analyzed a core set of common safety factors to identify and rank the safest cities in America, looking at data from 200 of the largest cities. The fiver metrics taken into consideration for rankings are violent crime, property crime, vehicular mortality rate, drug poisoning mortality rate and…
McAllen now ranks sixth in Safest Cities in the United States according to SmartAsset.com. The financial website analyzes a core set of common safety factors to identify and rank the safest cities in America, looking at data from 200 of the largest cities. Since the last study, crime in the United States has continued its upward trend. In McAllen, however, crime decreases continued as the city moved up three spots…
McAllen ranks 15 in the United States in the Best Places to Celebrate Halloween according to SmartAsset.com. In 2019, McAllen ranked 17. SmartAsset.com compared 210 cities across the country, looking at 10 metrics in four overall categories. Metrics include Family Friendly, Safety, Halloween Weather, and Candy and Costume. Those categories are further broken down into aspects such as the percentage of children in the population, violent and property crime rates,…
McAllen has once again received recognition for being a safe city nationally. SmartAsset.com’s recent rankings of the Safest Cities in the United States puts McAllen at nine. McAllen was also part of the rankings in 2019, coming in at 10. The financial planning website looks at data from 200 of the largest cities across five metrics. These include violent crime, property crime, vehicular mortality rate, drug poisoning mortality rate and…