Attention Jeff Bezos: Raleigh Tops Amazon.com HQ2 Ranking
Attention Jeff Bezos: Raleigh Tops Amazon.com HQ2 Ranking
(Bloomberg) -- ATTOM Data Solutions has ranked the finalists for Amazon.com’s proposed second headquarters based on housing and quality of life.
Raleigh, North Carolina -- with relatively affordable homes, above-average school scores and below-average crime rates and property taxes -- is No. 1, according to the curator of data on America’s property market.
Boston -- considered by some a favorite -- is last. New York also ranks poorly.
Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Nashville and Austin round out the top five.
The Washington area trio of Montgomery County, Maryland, the District of Columbia and Northern Virginia -- all making separate bids -- are No. 9, No. 12 and No. 13.
While there are 20 finalists, ATTOM ranked 19 U.S. locations only. The other finalist is Toronto in Canada.
Seattle-based Amazon.com’s second corporate headquarters is projected to cost more than $5 billion and create 50,000 jobs over 10 to 15 years.
Place | Q4 2017 Median Price | 5Y Chg% | Price/ | Avg. School Score | Crime Rate | Effective Property | Environ-mental Risk Score | Rank |
| Raleigh | $235,000 | 26% | 3.69 | 1.13 | 96 | 0.86% | 2.58 | 1 |
| Atlanta | $220,000 | 69% | 3.68 | 0.99 | 303 | 0.98% | 1.77 | 2 |
| Pittsburgh | $150,000 | 36% | 2.55 | 1.06 | 215 | 1.79% | 2.52 | 3 |
| Nashville | $275,000 | 67% | 5.16 | 0.87 | 126 | 0.74% | 2.22 | 4 |
| Austin | $361,000 | 114% | 4.93 | 1.06 | 98 | 1.84% | 3.49 | 5 |
| Denver | $346,500 | 73% | 5.86 | 0.92 | 179 | 0.49% | 4.92 | 6 |
| Los Angeles | $776,000 | 88% | 14.51 | 0.85 | 143 | 0.68% | 1.64 | 7 |
| Columbus | $138,000 | 52% | 2.89 | 0.85 | 190 | 1.79% | 3.83 | 8 |
| Montgomery County, MD | $400,000 | 8% | 3.59 | 1.17 | 34 | 1.00% | 93.6 | 9 |
| Indianapolis | $130,000 | 16% | 2.6 | 0.81 | 287 | 1.02% | 3.09 | 10 |
| Dallas | $284,619 | 246% | 5.21 | 0.93 | 194 | 2.23% | 3.55 | 11 |
| Washington, D.C. | $520,000 | 21% | 6.47 | 1.17 | 316 | 0.64% | 2.12 | 12 |
| Northern Virginia | $395,000 | 14% | 3.83 | 1.04 | 53 | 1.00% | 58.37 | 13 |
| Chicago | $223,000 | 48% | 4.43 | 0.92 | 231 | 1.34% | 3.59 | 14 |
| Philadelphia | $140,000 | 27% | 3.09 | 0.65 | 256 | 1.09% | 4.77 | 15 |
| Miami | $285,000 | 71% | 5.77 | 0.95 | 233 | 1.05% | 10.57 | 16 |
| Newark, NJ | $204,000 | 69% | 6.47 | 0.52 | 42 | 2.32% | 80.59 | 17 |
| New York | $1,445,000 | 41% | 14.79 | 1.09 | 82 | 1.15% | 54.5 | 18 |
| Boston | $670,000 | 50% | 9.57 | 0.6 | 115 | 0.91% | 34.04 | 19 |
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