Site Selection, the magazine of corporate real estate strategy & area economic development, has put out their 2013 Top Micropolitan Report (Micropolitan Statistical Areas are classified by the U.S. Census Bureau as regions with an urban hub of between 10,000 and 50,000 people). Alexandria ranks #1 in Minnesota and is tied at #6 in the United States of America with Danville, Virginia and Natchez, Mississippi/Louisiana.