Sentences with phrase «average of all small cities»

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A new report from the city's Department of Small Business Services found that, over the last decade, women - owned businesses in the city grew by 43 %, outpacing the average company growth rate of 39 %.

Projected job growth over the next 10 years is below the national average, so lack of spending power would make it hard for the city to support another small business.

The city's startup density is well above the national average, and 80 percent of small businesses are started from opportunity, not necessity.

Small business owners noted the cost of doing business is still very reasonable, and the city has a lower - than - average cost of living.

In - house research by the bank showed that Detroit residents, on average, channeled a significantly higher percentage of their spending through small businesses than city dwellers nationwide.

Over and above, the Street Food industry is a profitable industry and it is open for any aspiring entrepreneur to come in and establish his or her business; you can choose to start on a small scale in a street corner like the average mom and pop business or you can choose to start on a large scale with several food carts covering key cities with the view of selling franchise in future.

The most affordable cities and counties were those in which total housing costs on an average house accounted for the smallest proportion of the median income.

Our defence is questionable, but would I be more frustrated as a City fan, spending more than the GDP of a small country on 5/6 bang average defenders?

Mr. de Blasio proposed no new taxes, but he said the city would tweak its tax code to save small businesses an average of $ 2,000 a year.

The disparity between the way smaller single - family homes in New York City and larger multi-family developments and commercial real estate are taxed is significant — single family homeowners currently pay an average property tax rate of about.85 percent citywide, while multi-family developments and commercial real estate developments pay a much higher rate, which can be a deterrent to developers looking to build in the cCity and larger multi-family developments and commercial real estate are taxed is significant — single family homeowners currently pay an average property tax rate of about.85 percent citywide, while multi-family developments and commercial real estate developments pay a much higher rate, which can be a deterrent to developers looking to build in the citycity.

Data from hundreds of U.S. cities show that, on average, larger cities produce more wealth and innovation per capita than smaller ones do

From the benefits of social living to average walking speed, cities great and small have more in common than you might think, a physicist says

Westwood's plan calls for dividing the school into multi-age, multi-grade «families» to create a sense of belonging in a large school, implementing a community building component called Township 2000 that mimics a small city, and experimenting with new teaching and assessment strategies that promise to raise standardized test scores, within a year, by 3 % for average students and double that for low achievers.

In 2014, parents of students at Horace Mann Elementary School in Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income families.6

In Connecticut, which has significant suburban areas bordering New York City and small towns in the western part of the state, 82 percent of school districts are sparse or average.

[18] These differences are particularly strong for demographic characteristics: elementary school neighborhoods that draw the highest proportion of in - boundary students are likely to have proportionally smaller African American populations (14 percent on average, compared to 69 percent for the rest of the city) that are not decreasing as fast as they are in the rest of the city; the later dynamic could be related to the first because these neighborhoods tend to be historically white, and have very small African American populations to begin with.

A couple of schools outside the Wilson HS boundary (labeled in the scatterplot below) show a similar pattern of small and growing African American populations as well boundary participation rates that are higher than the city average.

The stereotype of bad inner - city schools is overcrowded classes, but so many parents work hard to get their children elsewhere — whether a charter, a Catholic school or, by using a fake address, a better public school — that at P.S. 39 average class size is actually small, 21.

David Whitman, in his book «Sweating the Small Stuff: Inner - City Schools and the New Paternalism,» reports that in Chicago, from 2003 through 2006, just three of every 1,000 teachers received an «unsatisfactory» rating in annual evaluations; in 87 «failing schools» — with below average and declining test scores — 69 had no teachers rated unsatisfactory; in all of Chicago, just nine teachers received more than one unsatisfactory rating and none of them was dismissed.

The EPA rates Volvo's smallest SUV at 23 city, 31 highway, and 26 combined mpg, but during our week of testing (primarily in Comfort mode with engine start / stop turned on), we averaged just 22 mpg.

This small city of about 25,000 residents has a median household income approaching six figures, but the average home is values at $ 442,000.

At just over twice the national average, the full service / fast food differential in this area was in the top 10 % among all of the small cities we considered for this ranking.

Over 10 % of Lafayette's residents are employed by small businesses, which is well above the U.S. small - city average of just 6.7 %.

Just 16.3 % of residents have attained a bachelor's degree, well below the average for small cities.

According to April data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, our top 10 small cities have an overall unemployment average of just 5.9 %, over a full percentage point less than the national average.

The birth / death differential for small businesses is essentially even, which is much better than the small city average of -113.

Brian Campos, director of wealth management at Capital Cities Asset Management states, «Commission - free ETFs mean dollar - cost averaging is now possible, small account access is now possible, re-balancing is no longer hindered by transactions costs and the door is open to more ETFs inside of 401k plans.

Of the four cities we looked at, Toronto is the only one where homes 20 minutes from the city core are smaller — by an average of 12 % — than homes right downtown; Calgarians end up paying roughly the same price - per - square - foot for their living space whether they buy 30 or 60 minutes from the city centre; and in Vancouver, it can be more costly to live 50 minutes out than it is to live closer to downtowOf the four cities we looked at, Toronto is the only one where homes 20 minutes from the city core are smaller — by an average of 12 % — than homes right downtown; Calgarians end up paying roughly the same price - per - square - foot for their living space whether they buy 30 or 60 minutes from the city centre; and in Vancouver, it can be more costly to live 50 minutes out than it is to live closer to downtowof 12 % — than homes right downtown; Calgarians end up paying roughly the same price - per - square - foot for their living space whether they buy 30 or 60 minutes from the city centre; and in Vancouver, it can be more costly to live 50 minutes out than it is to live closer to downtown.

Despite this growth, the cost of living is less than the national average and has retained a small - city charm.

As more and more cities grow and reach a level of what I would call «UHI saturation», the slow growth of big cities and smaller in absolute values UHI increase for cities from a certain size explains a smaller delta UHI for an urban group that contains cities, in comparison with a UHI contaminated average containing many small locations growing — consistent with the results from the BEST study — divergence appearing in the 1950s — and with the logarithmic dependency of UHI growing trend based on population.

The 18.5» tall omni - directional V2 turbines are rated at 4.5 kw, begin generating electricity at wind speeds of 8.9 mph (below the city's annual average wind speed), and the project is a good example of what is possible with small wind power integrated into building designs.

The lowest of the low, Lacombe, Alberta's smallest city, is 36 per cent lower than the provincial average.

Motorists in smaller cities in Georgia see additional reductions, and may depend on paying an average of about $ 108 per month, which calculates to about $ 1300 on a yearly basis.

The small city only gives its residents an average 7.9 - minute commute time, but is still fifth most expensive with an average quote of $ 1,456 per year.

This small city of about 25,000 residents has a median household income approaching six figures, but the average home is values at $ 442,000.

Because Saint John's is a good size city, automobile insurance may be slightly more expensive on average than some of the smaller urban centers of Canada.

The cost of living in Florida is actually right on par with the average across the nation, with small fluctuations depending on which city you choose to live in or near.

The most affordable cities and counties were those in which total housing costs on an average house accounted for the smallest proportion of the median income.

In this small Gold Rush town in the Sierra foothills of Nevada County, the average home in the county cost $ 397,000 last year, according to Tom Dykstra, a broker with Coldwell Banker Grass Roots Realty in Nevada City.

The most affordable cities were those in which total housing costs on an average house accounted for the smallest proportion of the median income.