9 Arizona Cities Earn Spot On “Best Retirement Cities in 2024” List

WalletHub, a personal finance website, compared over 180 cities based upon 45 metrics in their “Best & Worst Places to Retire (2024)” report.

The report found that nine cities in Arizona were among the best in the country.

Arizona ranked cities:
– Scottsdale: 6th
– Tempe: 21st
– Chandler: 66th
– Tucson: 81st
– Phoenix: 85th
– Gilbert: 86th
– Peoria: 88th
– Mesa: 106th
– Glendale: 118th

The top 5 cities, in order:
– Orlando, FL
– Miami, FL
– Minneapolis, MN
– Tampa, FL
– Fort Lauderdale, FL

Cities were graded on a 100-point scale using four primary categories: affordability (25 possible points), activities (25 possible points), quality of life (25 possible points), and health care (25 possible points). Subcategories included taxpayer-friendliness, annual cost of in-home services, recreation and senior centers per capita, violent-crime rate, elderly-friendly labor market and family medicine physicians per 10,000 residents.

Four of the top retirement cities also made the list of “Most Weed-Friendly Cities“.