Overland Park ranked number 7 on Money magazine’s 2010 ‘Best Places to Live’ list! The magazine ranked the cities by looking at their housing affordability, school quality, diversity, arts and leisure, safety and health care. The other Kansas City area cities that made the top 100 list are Shawnee at 17, Lee’s Summit at 27 and Blue Springs at 49.  This isn’t Overland Park’s first time on Money magazine’s top ten list, we were ninth in 2008 and sixth in 2006.

Here’s a brief look at the other top ten cities:

1. Eden Prairie, MN
2. Columbia/Ellicott City, MD
3. Newton, MA
4. Bellevue, WA
5. McKinney, TX
6. Fort Collins, CO
7. Overland Park, KS
8. Fishers, IN
9. Ames, IA
10. Rogers, AR