Best PlacesBeazley, VA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Beazley, 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.
Beazley ranks 39,554th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. Long commutes pulls hardest against it, while it scores best on big-city access.
The best neighborhoods in Beazley
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.
Beazley's strengths and weaknesses
Where Beazley ranks high
- Big-city accessBetter than 88% of towns
- Tree shadeBetter than 84% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 84% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than 74% of towns
- QuietBetter than 69% of towns
Where Beazley ranks low
- Short commute43.9 minutes each way, better than only 2% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than only 7% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 10% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 10% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than only 11% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Beazley
A household needs to earn about $50,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Beazley home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $69,828, 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 Beazley's effective rate of 0.57%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices, buying tends to cost more than renting for about the first 6 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Beazley
Beazley runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Beazley.
Who works in Beazley, and how
Work in Beazley centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 88%
- Work from home 10%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Beazley
The coast is about 32 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Beazley, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Beazley, month by month
Beazley sees roughly 71 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 90 degrees. January highs sit near 48, with lows near 30. The comfortable stretch runs April through June, September, and October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 48° | 38° | 30° |
| April | 71° | 58° | 47° |
| July | 90° | 79° | 70° |
| October | 72° | 61° | 51° |
Flying in and out of Beazley
Richmond International sits about 34 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 2.5 million passengers in 2025, with 72 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Beazley
Schools across Beazley average a B−, better than 55% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Tappahannock ElementaryB− · 43% proficient
- Lawson-marriott ElementaryC · 32% proficient
- Bowling Green ElementaryC− · 30% proficient
Top middle schools
- Caroline MiddleB+ · 51% proficient
- James H. Cary IntermediateC− · 27% proficient
Top high schools
- Caroline HighA− · 60% proficient
- Central HighB+ · 52% proficient
- Essex HighB− · 42% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Beazley school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Beazley 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 Beazley against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Beazley
Is Beazley a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Beazley ranks 39,554th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on big-city access, tree cover, and cheap car insurance, and lowest on long commutes and cell coverage. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Beazley expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $197,796. The overall cost of living runs about 10% below the national average. Set against a $69,828 median income, cost of living beats 43% of towns.
Is Beazley safe?
Beazley is safer than 29% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $422 per resident a year.
Compare Beazley with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Beazley. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Beazley 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.
Beazley detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Beazley: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Beazley: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Beazley: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Beazley: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Beazley 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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