Best PlacesBarton Hills, MI Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Barton Hills, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Local pay runs high here, and housing takes the biggest bite out of it. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Barton Hills ranks 1,177th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on an educated workforce by a wide margin, and car insurance costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Barton Hills
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.
Barton Hills' strengths and weaknesses
Where Barton Hills ranks high
- Educational attainmentBetter than 99% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 99% of towns
- Household income$229,861 median, better than 99% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than 99% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than 98% of towns
Where Barton Hills ranks low
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 2% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 4% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 14% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,094 a month, better than only 16% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 22% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Barton Hills
A household needs to earn about $220,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Barton Hills home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $229,861, 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 Barton Hills' effective rate of 1.37%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Who lives in Barton Hills
Barton Hills runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Barton Hills.
Who works in Barton Hills, and how
Work in Barton Hills centers on education and manufacturing. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 69%
- Work from home 26%
- Transit, walk, or bike 6%
Life in Barton Hills
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Barton Hills.
What the weather is like in Barton Hills, month by month
Barton Hills sees roughly 92 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 85 degrees. January highs sit near 35, with lows near 17. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 35° | 26° | 17° |
| April | 61° | 47° | 34° |
| July | 85° | 72° | 57° |
| October | 65° | 52° | 40° |
Flying in and out of Barton Hills
Detroit Metro Wayne County sits about 23 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 16.3 million passengers in 2025, with 168 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Barton Hills
Schools across Barton Hills average an A, better than 92% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Wines Elementary SchoolA+ · 75% proficient
Top middle schools
- Forsythe Middle SchoolA · 60% proficient
Top high schools
- Skyline High SchoolA · 68% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Barton Hills school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Barton Hills 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 Barton Hills against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Barton Hills
Is Barton Hills a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Barton Hills ranks 1,177th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on an educated workforce, what local pay buys, and high incomes, and lowest on car insurance costs and noise. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Barton Hills expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $781,081. The overall cost of living runs about 6% above the national average. Set against a $229,861 median income, cost of living beats 100% of towns.
Is Barton Hills safe?
Barton Hills is safer than 30% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $415 per resident a year.
Compare Barton Hills with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Barton Hills. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Barton Hills 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.
Barton Hills detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Barton Hills: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Barton Hills: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Barton Hills: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Barton Hills: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Barton Hills 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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