Best Places23410, VA Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood inside ZIP code 23410, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. The coast is close, and the measures below put a number on how close. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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23410 ranks 23,363rd of 33,110 U.S. zip codes on the BestNeighborhood index. Disaster risk pulls hardest against it, while it scores best on cheap car insurance.

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The best neighborhoods in 23410

Map of the best neighborhoods in the 23410 area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.

23410's strengths and weaknesses

Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare 23410 with other zip codes.

Where 23410 ranks high

  • Cheap car insuranceBetter than 89% of zip codes
  • Short commute19.4 minutes each way, better than 87% of zip codes
  • Low property taxBetter than 85% of zip codes
  • Voter turnoutBetter than 82% of zip codes
  • School gradeB+, better than 80% of zip codes

Where 23410 ranks low

  • Disaster safetyBetter than only 5% of zip codes
  • Household income$52,440 median, better than only 13% of zip codes
  • State fiscal healthBetter than only 16% of zip codes
  • Cost of living vs incomeBetter than only 18% of zip codes
  • Internet speedBetter than only 19% of zip codes

What it costs to buy a home in 23410

A household needs to earn about $80,000 a year to comfortably buy the median 23410 home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $52,440, so buying stretches a typical household.

Income to buy the median home
$80,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$1,871
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $321,209 home
Median rent
$965
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$1,638
Property tax$126
Homeowners insurance$107

Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses 23410's effective rate of 0.47%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.

Renting versus buying

At today's prices and rents, renting stays cheaper than buying across the first 10 years here, so the case for buying rests on staying much longer or on prices rising faster than assumed. The chart tracks the running cost of each.

Cumulative cost of renting versus owning the median home, first 10 years. Illustrative estimate.

Who lives in 23410

23410 runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.

Median age
48
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
34%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.1
below the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1818%
18 to 3418%
35 to 4914%
50 to 6416%
65 and older34%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for 23410.


Who works in 23410, and how

Work in 23410 centers on retail trade and health care & social. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.

Work from home
9%
below the national average
Unemployment
4.3%
about the national average
Job growth
−1.4%
/y 2019-2023, slower than the national pace

Largest industries

Retail trade18%
Health care & social18%
Manufacturing16%
Other services10%
Hospitality & food10%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 89%
  • Work from home 9%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 2%

Life in 23410

The coast is about 22 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across 23410, which the map shows.

To the coast
22 min
drive to the nearest ocean beaches

What the weather is like in 23410, month by month

23410 sees roughly 70 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 87 degrees. January highs sit near 47, with lows near 30. The comfortable stretch runs April through June, September, and October.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January47°39°30°
April67°56°46°
July87°78°70°
October72°61°51°

Flying in and out of 23410

The nearest airport, Salisbury-Ocean City Wicomico Regional, is about 50 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Richmond International, about 87 miles away.

Nearest airport
SBY
Salisbury-Ocean City Wicomico Regional, about 50 miles
Airport size
Nonhub
258th-busiest in the US, 7 nonstop destinations
Average drive
71 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around 23410

Schools across 23410 average a B+, better than 80% of zip codes.

Top elementary schools

Top middle schools

Top high schools

Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every 23410 school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


23410 measure by measure

Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare 23410 against the other 33,109 zip codes.


Common questions about living in 23410

Is 23410 a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, 23410 ranks 23,363rd of 33,110 zip codes. It scores highest on cheap car insurance, short commutes, and low property taxes, and lowest on disaster risk and low incomes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is 23410 expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $321,209. The overall cost of living runs about 13% below the national average. Set against a $52,440 median income, cost of living beats 18% of zip codes.

Is 23410 safe?

23410 is safer than 31% of zip codes. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $415 per resident a year.


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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to 23410. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in 23410 represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.

23410 detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for 23410: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in 23410: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of 23410: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in 23410: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

23410 detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  5. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  6. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  7. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  8. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  9. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  10. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  11. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  12. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.