Escape to Wisconsin for the small town life. Small towns give you a feeling of being less trapped and more freedom and some rise above the rest.

Wallethub.com surveyed over 1250 smaller communities all across the United States to find out the best small towns in America. From those results we found the small communities that call Wisconsin home.

Wallethub says that smaller towns offer closer communities, less competition, shorter commutes.

The criteria to determine the the best of the best included:

  • Affordability
  • Economic Health
  • Education & Health
  • Quality of Life

The good news is that one Stateline town made the national top 10

Here are Wisconsin's Top 10 Small towns

1. Brookfield (nationwide rank #4)
2. Menomonee Falls (nationwide rank #46)
3. Stevens Point (nationwide rank #47)
4. Sun Prairie (nationwide rank #50)
5. Neehah (nationwide rank #55)
6. Mt Pleasant  (nationwide rank #64)
7. Appleton (nationwide rank #66)
8. Franklin (nationwide rank #69)
9. La Crosse (nationwide rank #72)
10. New Berlin (nationwide rank #86)

Interestingly, unlike Illinois, Wisconsin fares much better. All of Wisconsin's Top 10 small town rank i  the Top 100 nationwide out of 1250 towns surveyed

The number one small town nationwide was Princeton, NJ. Check out the full list of small towns across the USA, HERE.

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