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Best Age-Friendly Places to Retire

The Best Age-Friendly Places to Retire in list is influenced by the World Health Organization’s age-friendly Ventures cities movement and scores are provided by people who live there. Have an opinion? Find your city and leave a review.

Jersey City
#1
#1 of 96 Best Places to Retire in United States
265549.0
New Jersey

Jersey City is the second-most-populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, after Newark. It is the seat of Hudson County as well as the county's largest city. As of 2016, the Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program calculated that Jers...

36 reviews
36 reviews
Windsor
#2
#2 of 96 Best Places to Retire in United States
29044.0
Connecticut

Windsor is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States, and was the first English settlement in the state. It lies on the northern border of Connecticut's capital, Hartford. The population of Windsor was 29,044 at the 2010 census.Poquon...

37 reviews
37 reviews
Silver Spring
#3
#3 of 96 Best Places to Retire in United States
79483.0
Maryland

Silver Spring is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located inside the Capital Beltway in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It had a population of 76,716 according to 2013 estimates by the United States Cen...

93 reviews
93 reviews
Cambridge
#4
#4 of 96 Best Places to Retire in United States
110651.0
Massachusetts

Situated directly north of Boston, across the Charles River, it was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Harvard University and the Massachusetts Ins...

35 reviews
35 reviews
Lowell
#5
#5 of 96 Best Places to Retire in United States
111640.0
Massachusetts

Lowell is a city in the U.S. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Located in Middlesex County, Lowell (along with Cambridge) was a county seat until Massachusetts disbanded county government in 1999. With an estimated population of 109,945 in 2014, ...

68 reviews
68 reviews
Waltham
#6
#6 of 96 Best Places to Retire in United States
63002.0
Massachusetts

Waltham is an emerging age friendly community. This means it is pursuing an age friendly designation. Making Waltham Age Friendly: Waltham Connections, a collaboration of 12 agency partners led by Healthy Waltham, including the Waltham Counci...

58 reviews
58 reviews
Quincy
#7
#7 of 96 Best Places to Retire in United States
93688.0
Massachusetts
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Quincy is the largest city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of Metropolitan Boston and one of Boston's immediate southern suburbs. Its population in 2014 was 93,397, making it the eighth largest city in the state. The ...

63 reviews
63 reviews
San Francisco
#8
#8 of 96 Best Places to Retire in United States
883305.0
California
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San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California. The consolidated city-county covers an area of about 46.9 square miles, mostly at the north end of the ...

36 reviews
36 reviews
Boston
#9
#9 of 96 Best Places to Retire in United States
694583.0
Massachusetts
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Making Boston Age Friendly: The Age-Friendly Boston project works with the City’s public agencies, businesses, cultural, educational, and religious institutions, and community groups “We are dedicated to making Boston the best city in the wor...

594 reviews
594 reviews
Brooklyn
#10
#10 of 96 Best Places to Retire in United States
0.0
New York

Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a census-estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017. Named after Dutch village of Breukelen, it borders the borough of Queens at the southwestern end of the same Long Island, and has seve...

533 reviews
533 reviews
Charleston
#11
#11 of 96 Best Places to Retire in United States
134875.0
South Carolina

Charleston is the oldest and largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston–North Charleston–Summerville Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city lies just south of t...

83 reviews
83 reviews
Pawtucket
#12
#12 of 96 Best Places to Retire in United States
71148.0
Rhode Island

Pawtucket ( listen) is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 71,148 at the 2010 census. It is the fourth largest city in the state. Pawtucket borders Providence, Rhode Island and the state of Massachusetts.

38 reviews
38 reviews
Fort Myers
#13
#13 of 96 Best Places to Retire in United States
79943.0
Florida

Fort Myers or Ft. Myers, is the county seat and commercial center of Lee County, Florida, United States. It has grown rapidly in recent years. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 62,298 and in 2016 was estimated at 77,146. Fort Myers is...

48 reviews
48 reviews
North Charleston
#14
#14 of 96 Best Places to Retire in United States
108304.0
South Carolina

North Charleston is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, with incorporated areas in Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester counties. On June 12, 1972, the city of North Charleston was incorporated and was rated as the ninth-la...

35 reviews
35 reviews
Durham
#15
#15 of 96 Best Places to Retire in United States
263016.0
North Carolina
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Durham is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the county seat of Durham County. The U.S. Census Bureau estimated the city's population to be 251,893 as of July 1, 2014, making it the 4th-most populous city in North Carolina, and the ...

50 reviews
50 reviews
Bronx
#16
#16 of 96 Best Places to Retire in United States
0.0
New York

The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City, in the U.S. state of New York.  It is south of Westchester County; north and east of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of Queens, across the East River. Since 1914...

426 reviews
426 reviews
Hyattsville
#17
#17 of 96 Best Places to Retire in United States
18333.0
Maryland
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Hyattsville is a city in Prince George's County, Maryland, and also a close, urban suburb of Washington, D.C. The population was 17,557 at the 2010 United States Census.

54 reviews
54 reviews
Framingham
#18
#18 of 96 Best Places to Retire in United States
72032.0
Massachusetts
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Framingham is a city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. Incorporated in 1700, it is located within Middlesex County and the MetroWest subregion of the Greater Boston metropolitan area. The Council on Aging assists older a...

47 reviews
47 reviews
Portland
#19
#19 of 96 Best Places to Retire in United States
653115.0
Oregon
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Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the seat of Multnomah County. It is a major port in the Willamette Valley region of the Pacific Northwest, at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers. Area Agencies on ...

44 reviews
44 reviews
Little Rock
#20
#20 of 96 Best Places to Retire in United States
198606.0
Arkansas
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Little Rock is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arkansas. It is also the county seat of Pulaski County. It was incorporated on November 7, 1831, on the south bank of the Arkansas River close to the state's geographic center....

67 reviews
67 reviews
Decatur
#21
#21 of 96 Best Places to Retire in United States
22813.0
Georgia
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Decatur is a city in, and the county seat of, DeKalb County, Georgia, United States and is part of the Atlanta metropolitan area. With a population of 20,148 in the 2013 census, the municipality is sometimes assumed to be larger since multiple...

65 reviews
65 reviews
Upper Darby
#22
#22 of 96 Best Places to Retire in United States
82629.0
Pennsylvania

Upper Darby Township (often shortened to simply Upper Darby) is a home rule township bordering West Philadelphia in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. Upper Darby is also home to the Tower Theater, a historic music venue on 69th Str...

52 reviews
52 reviews
Brockton
#23
#23 of 96 Best Places to Retire in United States
95630.0
Massachusetts
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Brockton is a city in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States; the population was 95,314 in the 2015 Census. Brockton, along with Plymouth, are the county seats of Plymouth County. Brockton is the seventh largest city in Massachusetts an...

74 reviews
74 reviews
Fort Lauderdale
#24
#24 of 96 Best Places to Retire in United States
180072.0
Florida
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Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, 28 miles (45 km) north of Miami. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 165,521 in 2010. It is a principal city of the Miami metropol...

134 reviews
134 reviews
New Britain
#25
#25 of 96 Best Places to Retire in United States
72558.0
Connecticut

New Britain is a city in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. It is located approximately 9 miles (14 km) southwest of Hartford. According to 2010 Census, the population of the city is 73,206. Among the southernmost of the communities enco...

51 reviews
51 reviews
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