At Homeday, our goal is to make buying and selling real estate as easy and convenient as possible. After thousands of successful property sales, we’ve learnt through conversing with homebuyers that young families looking to settle down is one of the core drivers of the home purchasing industry. To utilise these findings, we undertook this study in order to help potential property buyers and sellers make data-led decisions.

This is how we proceeded: To kick-off the study, we first asked hundreds of parents what the most important factors are when raising a family in an urban landscape. From this we found, for example, that although housing affordability and pollution were both big considerations for parents, good schools and the ability to buy a home are far more important overall. Using the answers from this representative poll, we then determined the main categories for the study; city infrastructure, maternity laws, healthcare quality, happiness levels, activities for children, and expert perceptionPoll from over 30,000 parenting experts and family journalists. We then analysed thousands of cities around the world based on these categories to determine the final list of 100 best cities for families to live in.

The research included micro factors such as education quality, unemployment and safety, as well as green spaces, transportation and affordability. To round off the study, we asked 30,000 parenting experts and family journalists to rate how good their own city is for raising a family. We then ranked all of these factors to determine the final score for each city.