For a second straight year, Tempe was ranked as the most popular college town in America by residential real estate company Zillow.
Tempe is home to Arizona State University’s main campus, and it came out ahead after Zillow created an index based on the number of rental listings, median list rent, rent growth and rental page views — the last of which had the most weight. In addition, Tempe had one of the largest populations of undergraduate and graduate college students, Zillow said. That’s a fact also highlighted inComing in after Tempe were Smithfield, Rhode Island, home of Bryant University, and Bowling Green, Ohio, home of Bowling Green State University. Neither of those towns were in the top three last year.Winning the overall most popular place in the nation was Prairie Village, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City. one of many Midwestern cities to be ranked.