Best PlacesAmery, WI Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Amery, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. This page is for people who live here or already know they want to. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Amery ranks 10,257th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on civic engagement by a wide margin, and an overheated housing market is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Amery
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.
Amery's strengths and weaknesses
Where Amery ranks high
- Voter turnoutBetter than 94% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than 92% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than 91% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than 89% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 89% of towns
Where Amery ranks low
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 9% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 27% of towns
- Local economyBetter than only 37% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than only 40% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 40% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Amery
A household needs to earn about $74,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Amery home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $79,163, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.
Where the monthly payment goes
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 Amery's effective rate of 1.06%, 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.
Who lives in Amery
Amery runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Amery.
Who works in Amery, and how
Work in Amery centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 84%
- Work from home 11%
- Transit, walk, or bike 4%
Life in Amery
Amery has more restaurants and bars per resident than 82% of towns and more parkland per resident than 96% of towns. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Amery and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Amery, month by month
Amery sees roughly 89 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 82 degrees. January highs sit near 24, with lows near 9. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 24° | 16° | 9° |
| April | 54° | 43° | 34° |
| July | 82° | 71° | 61° |
| October | 58° | 48° | 40° |
Flying in and out of Amery
Minneapolis-St Paul International/Wold-Chamberlain sits about 51 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 17.5 million passengers in 2025, with 195 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Amery
Schools across Amery average a B−, better than 56% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Saint Croix Falls ElementaryA+ · 73% proficient
- Amery IntermediateB · 49% proficient
- Lien ElementaryB− · 40% proficient
Top middle schools
- Osceola MiddleA− · 58% proficient
- Saint Croix Falls MiddleA− · 58% proficient
- Amery MiddleB+ · 51% proficient
Top high schools
- Saint Croix Falls HighC+ · 38% proficient
- Osceola HighC+ · 38% proficient
- Amery HighD · 23% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Amery school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Amery 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 Amery against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Amery
Is Amery a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Amery ranks 10,257th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on civic engagement, health care access, and fast internet, and lowest on an overheated housing market and property taxes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Amery expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $274,416. The overall cost of living runs about 11% below the national average. Set against a $79,163 median income, cost of living beats 66% of towns.
Is Amery safe?
Yes, Amery is safer than 79% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $232 per resident a year.
Compare Amery with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Amery. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Amery 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.
Amery detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Amery: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Amery: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Amery: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Amery: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Amery detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- 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.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
Your priorities
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