Best PlacesBrodheadsville, PA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Brodheadsville, 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.
Brodheadsville ranks 9,263rd of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on big-city access by a wide margin, and long commutes are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Brodheadsville
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.
Brodheadsville's strengths and weaknesses
Where Brodheadsville ranks high
- Big-city accessBetter than 96% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than 94% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than 94% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 91% of towns
- Household income$109,652 median, better than 90% of towns
Where Brodheadsville ranks low
- Short commute40.4 minutes each way, better than only 5% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 8% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 8% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 19% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 27% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Brodheadsville
A household needs to earn about $88,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Brodheadsville home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $109,652, 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 Brodheadsville's effective rate of 1.59%, 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 Brodheadsville
Brodheadsville runs older than the country, and households here run larger than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Brodheadsville.
Who works in Brodheadsville, and how
Work in Brodheadsville centers on health care & social and manufacturing. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 87%
- Work from home 10%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Brodheadsville
Brodheadsville has more restaurants and bars per resident than 93% of towns and more parkland per resident than 98% of towns. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Brodheadsville and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Brodheadsville, month by month
Brodheadsville sees roughly 78 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 81 degrees. January highs sit near 34, with lows near 17. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 34° | 25° | 17° |
| April | 58° | 45° | 34° |
| July | 81° | 70° | 59° |
| October | 62° | 51° | 41° |
Flying in and out of Brodheadsville
The nearest airport, Lehigh Valley International, is about 19 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Newark Liberty International, about 66 miles away.
The best schools in and around Brodheadsville
Schools across Brodheadsville average a B−, better than 60% of towns.
Top middle schools
- Pleasant Valley MsB · 45% proficient
- Pocono Mountain East JhsB− · 40% proficient
Top high schools
- Pocono Mountain East HsB− · 45% proficient
- Pleasant Valley HsD · 21% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Brodheadsville school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Brodheadsville 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 Brodheadsville against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Brodheadsville
Is Brodheadsville a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Brodheadsville ranks 9,263rd of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on big-city access, fast internet, and heat safety, and lowest on long commutes and an overheated housing market. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Brodheadsville expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $303,144. The overall cost of living runs about 9% below the national average. Set against a $109,652 median income, cost of living beats 91% of towns.
Is Brodheadsville safe?
Yes, Brodheadsville is safer than 60% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $231 per resident a year.
Compare Brodheadsville with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Brodheadsville. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Brodheadsville 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.
Brodheadsville detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Brodheadsville: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Brodheadsville: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Brodheadsville: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Brodheadsville: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Brodheadsville 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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