Best PlacesBrunswick, VA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Brunswick, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Several measures below read low, and the ranked lists name which ones. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Brunswick ranks 44,446th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. Long commutes pulls hardest against it, while it scores best on quiet.
The best neighborhoods in Brunswick
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.
Brunswick's strengths and weaknesses
Where Brunswick ranks high
- QuietBetter than 89% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 87% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 83% of towns
- Cheap childcare$585 a month, better than 80% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than 78% of towns
Where Brunswick ranks low
- Short commute48.5 minutes each way, better than only 1% of towns
- Local economyBetter than only 3% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than only 5% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than only 11% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 64 pleasant days a year, better than only 14% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Brunswick
A household needs to earn about $29,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Brunswick home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $55,373, 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 Brunswick's effective rate of 0.56%, 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 2 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Brunswick
Brunswick 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 Brunswick.
Who works in Brunswick, and how
Work in Brunswick centers on retail trade and education. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 89%
- Work from home 8%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Brunswick
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Brunswick.
What the weather is like in Brunswick, month by month
Brunswick sees roughly 64 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 91 degrees. January highs sit near 53, with lows near 29. The comfortable stretch runs April through June, September, and October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 53° | 40° | 29° |
| April | 74° | 59° | 46° |
| July | 91° | 79° | 69° |
| October | 75° | 61° | 50° |
Flying in and out of Brunswick
Richmond International sits about 67 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 Brunswick
Schools across Brunswick average a C, better than 38% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Meherrin Powellton ElementaryC+ · 37% proficient
Top middle schools
- James S. Russell MiddleD+ · 25% proficient
Top high schools
- Brunswick HighC+ · 40% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Brunswick school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Brunswick 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 Brunswick against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Brunswick
Is Brunswick a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Brunswick ranks 44,446th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on quiet, cheap car insurance, and a stable housing market, and lowest on long commutes and a weak job market. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Brunswick expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $114,704. The overall cost of living runs about 12% below the national average. Set against a $55,373 median income, cost of living beats 21% of towns.
Is Brunswick safe?
Brunswick is safer than 11% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $540 per resident a year.
Compare Brunswick with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Brunswick. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Brunswick 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.
Brunswick detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Brunswick: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Brunswick: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Brunswick: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Brunswick: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Brunswick 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
Move a slider to say how much a measure matters. Zero turns it off.