CRANBERRY TWP — A national business publication has named Cranberry Township the best town in all of Pennsylvania to raise a family.

The list of communities was released Wednesday by Bloomburg BusinessWeek.

“Cranberry, as the locals call it, is no longer merely a bedroom community for Pittsburgh. The town’s economy is buoyed by such companies as Westinghouse, Alcoa and Verizon, which have operations in the town. Cranberry has a public golf course and a water park, charming even to the most committed urban émigrés from Pittsburgh,” the article said.

BusinessWeek had teamed up with Bloomberg Rankings to evaluate more than 3,200 places nationwide with populations between 5,000 and 50,000.

Bruce Mazzoni, chairman of Cranberry’s board of supervisors, said the township is honored to be recognized by a national publication for its efforts.

“We think we’ve done a lot right to attract families, and it’s great to have that validation for things we’ve done decades in the past,” Mazzoni said. “We’re thrilled to have the recognition.”

“We’ve always known that we’re a great place to raise kids. It’s nice to have the external validation of what we always knew,” said Jerry Andree, Cranberry manager.

“This sense of place just didn’t happen overnight. It was done through deliberate public policy by the boards of supervisors over the years,” Andree said.

The list excluded places where the median family income exceeds $115,866, the lower limit for the wealthiest 20 percent of U.S. families.