Overland Park clocked in at seventh among the website’s 2019 list, with its excellent public schools and strong housing values factoring heavily into its high placement. In fact, Niche ranks Overland Park the “Best City to Buy a House in America” and put it fourth among the “Cities with the Best Public Schools in America.”

Niche bases its annual rankings on publicly available data on the economy, jobs, education and crime.

Niche also publishes a list of the “Best Suburbs to Live in America” for smaller towns in metropolitan areas. And another northeast Johnson County municipality made a strong showing there. Prairie Village came in at 10th overall on that list.