Avon Second on Hartford Magazine's Top Towns List

Avon placed high on Hartford Magazine's annual ranking of the area's top towns, placing second in the medium-sized category and overall when compared to 30 Greater Hartford area towns. The magazine gives Avon top ranking for education, second for overall quality and quality of life but sixth for economics. A video describes the town.

The rankings, part of the magazine's June issue, using a formula including educational factors (student scores in reading, writing, math and science; graduation rate; and amount spent on education), economics (home prices, taxes and poverty rate), and quality of life (higher education of residents, voter turnout, median age of residents and population density) to order the towns.

“Greater Hartford is a fantastic place to live” said Rich Graziano, publisher and CEO of Hartford Magazine and CT1 Media. “The town-by-town information and rankings in this issue show the positives of what each town has to offer its residents and the region as a whole.”

Taking top honors overall this year is Simsbury, which offers great restaurants, golf, colonial roots, one of the top libraries in the state, and is the only town in Connecticut to earn a “bike friendly” label from the League of American Bicyclists.

In addition to earning the top overall spot, Simsbury led the pack among medium-sized towns (population 15,000-30,000). Avon took second place, with Farmington and South Windsor tied for third, followed by Berlin, Rocky Hill, Windsor, Wethersfield, Bloomfield and Plainville.

Burlington won top honors among small towns (population under 15,000), followed by Granby, Marlborough, Suffield, East Granby, Canton and Hebron.

Glastonbury was the leader among large towns (population over 30,000), following by Middletown, West Hartford, Southington, Newington, Manchester, Enfield, East Hartford, New Britain and Hartford. 

The Top Town issues of Hartford Magazine issue will be available on newsstands Friday, June 1st  and is available now on www.hartfordmag.com.