With a population of 53,424, a story in Money Magazine listed Bellevue as the best place to live in Nebraska.

Many people may agree or disagree due to personal opinion, however, the magazine releases a “best places to live in the U.S.” every year. Because of the criteria that is considered, the publishers had noticed there were cities that had been represented more than once, and others not at all.

“Now, using data from that ranking, we crunched the numbers to find the best place to live in every state. As in our previous rankings, we considered everything from the cost of buying a home to median household income,” according to Money Magazine. “The results surfaced favorite stand-bys, well-known cities, and plenty of hidden gems.”

Unfortunately, the rankings only considered cities and suburbs that had a population 50,000 or more people living within them, so smaller cities, towns and suburbs had been excluded from the ranking.

“When five states had no places that met this year’s criteria, we considered last year’s Best Places to Live data, which included spots with populations between 10,000 and 100,000,” according to Money Magazine.

Superintendent Dr. Jeff Rippe believes that there are also many other reasons behind the ranking, whether or not certain characteristics were considered in the criteria. From advancements in schools to the new businesses coming to the town, Rippe believes Bellevue is one of the best places to live in Nebraska.

“I mean I think Bellevue is a great city,” Rippe said. “It’s a part of Omaha, it’s a suburb of Omaha, but you still have an identity of a smaller town. I think there’s great partnerships that exist in Bellevue  between: the school system and the base, the base and the city, the city and the school district, the chamber of commerce, all that. I think everybody’s working with a common goal.”

While there are many people who would agree with this statement, many people would also disagree. There are also many negatives to living in Bellevue, specifically where East is located. According to Neighborhood Scout, Bellevue is only safer than 33 percent of every city in the U.S.

“However, compared to other communities of similar population size, Bellevue has a crime rate that is noticeably lower than the average. This means that for comparably sized cities all across America, Bellevue is actually safer than most according to Neighborhood Scout’s exclusive analysis of FBI crime data,” according to Neighborhood Scout.

When looking at Nebraska as a whole, Bellevue is one of the most dangerous cities in the state when taking property crime, violent crime, rape, murder or assault into consideration.

“Based on FBI crime data, Bellevue is not one of the safest communities in America. Relative to Nebraska, Bellevue has a crime rate that is higher than 93 percent of the state’s cities and towns of all sizes,” according to Neighborhood Scout. “Neighborhood Scout’s analysis also reveals that Bellevue’s rate for property crime is 19 per one thousand population. This makes Bellevue a place where there is an above average chance of becoming a victim of a property crime, when compared to all other communities in America of all population sizes.”