ConsumerAffairs this week released a report on 2023's Best and Worst Cities in American for retirement and they ranked Charleston as being the 18th best in the country. Meanwhile, Spartanburg was tabbed as the second worst place to retire in the U.S.
To come up with their rankings, the company gathered data from multiple sources such as the U.S. Census Bureau, the FBI, and NYU Langone's City Health Dashboard. They made each metric a positive or negative and gave each city a score out of 10 for each metric, then they combined the scores for these metrics to create a Retirement Score.
The website says they looked at major metropolitan statistical areas, so if a city is excluded, it’s due to a lack of reporting on crucial metrics used in the report.
To see the full report, click here.
