Ranking the Charlotte area's best places for families

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Coming on the heels of CBJ's review of best spots for Charlotte's cohorts of millennials and retirees, this piece is centered around families.

As we did with retirees, CBJ has pulled the top suburbs and towns across the greater Charlotte region, which Pittsburgh-based research and review site Niche ranked as the best places to raise a family.

For this particular ranking, Niche focused its efforts on measuring factors like quality of local schools, safety, affordability, walkability and access to amenities such as parks, libraries and cultural activities.

Read more and see the complete list of 15 here: http://bizj.us/1pmr5l

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