Roseville named 8th best small city in U.S. for first-time home buyers

Updated July 17, 2018

Roseville is the 8th best small city and 18th best city overall in the United States for first-time home buyers according to WalletHub.com.

This ranking reinforces Roseville standing as one of the most desirable places to live in California.  In 2017, Roseville was also ranked as the top place to raise a family in California by Smart Asset.com and as one of the leading cities where millennials are buying homes.

To determine the most favorable housing markets for first-time buyers, WalletHub looked at real estate in 300 cities of varying sizes using 27 key metrics across three key areas:

  • Affordability,
  • Real-Estate Market and
  • Quality of Life.

WalletHub.com considered a wide range of data from cost of living to real-estate taxes to property-crime rate.

In 2017, 38% of all U.S. single-family home purchases were made by first-time buyers. A small city in this survey is one with fewer than 150,000 residents.