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Citi-Data.com

Stats about all US cities – relocation info, maps, race, income, photos, education, crime, weather, houses, etc.
We’ve collected and analyzed data from numerous sources to create as complete and interesting profiles of all U.S. cities as we could.

This is a really fascinating site. Warning! You could spend hours looking at the information here. I discovered citi-data.com* while looking for promising retirement/vacation home locations for the spouse and myself.

Check out, for example, this list of Minnesota’s smallest towns. It just begs for exploring, no?

Besides ALL SORTS of demographic information for cities and counties around the country, they’ve also got discussion forums (I was tempted to write “fora” there but I restrained myself). So, if there’s a particular area you’re especially interested in, you can ask questions about it and people who know the area can often tell you what you want to know. (Sometimes they’re realtors, so… be aware that they may be trying to sell you on the area.)

Anyway. Cool. Very cool.

*Watch out for the URL. It’s citI-data.com — not city-data.com.