Milwaukee Among Best Cities For Millennial Dads: Study

MILWAUKEE, WI — A study ranked Milwaukee among the top 25 best American cities for young fathers.

Milwaukee scored No. 9 on the list compiled by the moving and storage service moveBuddha, based on a host of criteria such as career opportunities, affordable home ownership, golfing opportunities, child care facilities, microbreweries and concentration of similarly aged peers.

The top three cities were Houston, San Diego and Chicago. Texas metropolises were found to be well-rounded, and San Diego and Chicago were were among the most fun for dad-centric opportunities, according to the website.

Other large cities in the Midwest such as Rochester and Buffalo in New York and Columbus in Ohio also ranked highly and offered the most well-rounded combination of professional opportunities, home value, kid-friendliness, health and safety and fun dad-centric opportunities, according to the website.

Because the cities have the perfect mix of all criteria, they scored on the list where millennial dads will feel right at home, it added.

“Millennials parent differently than Gen X and the Boomers,” data reporter Joe Robinson wrote.

About 3.5 times as many men are taking parental leave today as in the 1990s; roughly 24 percent of U.S. households have a stay-at-home dad (up from 4 percent in 1989), and studies found that millennials’ relaxed attitudes about gender roles make them more compassionate and engaged fathers, he added.

The site used quality of life factors such as income and career, home value, health and safety and kid-friendliness to determine appeal for new fathers and mothers alike, according to the website.

Golfing opportunities per capita, microbreweries per capita and concentration of people aged 20 to 49 were mixed in as factors that could be fun for millennial fathers, it added.

For more on this study, go to moveBuddha.