Best PlacesBringhurst, IN Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Bringhurst, 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.

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Bringhurst ranks 10,785th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on cheap car insurance by a wide margin, and taxes are the weak spot.

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The best neighborhoods in Bringhurst

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Bringhurst 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.

Bringhurst's strengths and weaknesses

Top 10%Cheap car insurance
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Bringhurst with other towns.

Where Bringhurst ranks high

  • Cheap car insuranceBetter than 90% of towns
  • Local economyBetter than 89% of towns
  • Crime safetyBetter than 88% of towns
  • Heat safetyBetter than 81% of towns
  • State infrastructureBetter than 80% of towns

Where Bringhurst ranks low

  • Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 6% of towns
  • Internet speedBetter than only 30% of towns
  • Tree shadeBetter than only 35% of towns
  • QuietBetter than only 38% of towns
  • State fiscal healthBetter than only 39% of towns

What it costs to buy a home in Bringhurst

A household needs to earn about $50,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Bringhurst home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $86,278, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.

Income to buy the median home
$50,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$1,170
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $198,024 home
Median rent
$846
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$1,010
Property tax$94
Homeowners insurance$66

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 Bringhurst'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 8 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. 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 Bringhurst

Bringhurst's age mix sits close to the national median.

Median age
40
about the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
19%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.7
near the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1824%
18 to 3420%
35 to 4918%
50 to 6419%
65 and older19%

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


Who works in Bringhurst, and how

Work in Bringhurst centers on manufacturing and education. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
10%
below the national average
Unemployment
1.9%
below the national average
Job growth
+7.1%
/y 2019-2023, faster than the national pace

Largest industries

Manufacturing23%
Education17%
Health care & social12%
Construction10%
Retail trade7%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 89%
  • Work from home 10%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 2%

Life in Bringhurst

The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Bringhurst.


What the weather is like in Bringhurst, month by month

Bringhurst sees roughly 77 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 82 degrees. January highs sit near 34, with lows near 21. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January34°27°21°
April61°49°40°
July82°72°63°
October66°54°45°

Flying in and out of Bringhurst

Indianapolis International sits about 55 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 5.2 million passengers in 2025, with 92 nonstop destinations.

Nearest airport
IND
Indianapolis International, about 55 miles
Airport size
Medium hub
45th-busiest in the US, 92 nonstop destinations
Average drive
79 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Bringhurst

Schools across Bringhurst average a C+, better than 47% of towns.

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 Bringhurst school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


Bringhurst 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 Bringhurst against the other 50,332 towns.


Common questions about living in Bringhurst

Is Bringhurst a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Bringhurst ranks 10,785th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on cheap car insurance, a strong job market, and low crime, and lowest on taxes and internet speeds. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Bringhurst expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $198,024. The overall cost of living runs about 13% below the national average. Set against a $86,278 median income, cost of living beats 76% of towns.

Is Bringhurst safe?

Yes, Bringhurst is safer than 88% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $173 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 Bringhurst. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Bringhurst 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.

Bringhurst detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

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

Bringhurst 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.