Marin County One of America's Best Places to Raise a Family

Forbes has named Marin County number 15 on its list of the top 20 places in the country to raise a family. Rankings are largely based on school quality, followed by other factors like cost of living, air quality, crime rate, and commute time. One thing they ding us for is the astronomical media home price, but of course we know that this factors in things like $25 million-dollar estates in Belvedere as well as less costly homes in perfectly fine communities like Novato and San Rafael.

Read the article here on Forbes.com.

Forbes also declared last year that Marin had the best schools in the nation.

Photo: Barbara Stenson, Marin County Visitors Bureau