Mountain Brook ranks 4th in South for quality of life
Birmingham Business Journal
Date: Tuesday, December 6, 2011, 10:37am CST - Last Modified: Tuesday, December 6, 2011, 12:24pm CST
Mountain Brook has the highest quality of life in the state, according to a new study.
Mountain Brook has the highest quality of life in Alabama and the fourth highest in the South, according to a new study by On Numbers.
The quality of life rankings, which considered economic health, traffic, cost of living, housing and education, featured several Birmingham suburbs among the top 100 out of the more than 1,300 Southern places considered in the study.
Vestavia (No. 49), Helena (No. 60) and Hoover (No. 88) all ranked in the top 100.
The city of Birmingham, however, ranked No. 1008 in the South.
West University Place, a Houston suburb, was the highest ranked place in the South.
