Best PlacesCanton, MI Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Canton, 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.
Canton ranks 529th of 2,098 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on a stable housing market by a wide margin, and car insurance costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Canton
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.
Canton's strengths and weaknesses
Where Canton ranks high
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 96% of cities
- Disaster safetyBetter than 89% of cities
- Healthcare accessBetter than 87% of cities
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 85% of cities
- Educational attainmentBetter than 84% of cities
Where Canton ranks low
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 4% of cities
- TransitBetter than only 13% of cities
- Cell coverageBetter than only 24% of cities
- Air qualityBetter than only 24% of cities
- Low property taxBetter than only 25% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Canton
A household needs to earn about $107,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Canton home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $131,064, 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 Canton's effective rate of 1.36%, 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 10 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Canton
Canton's age mix sits close to the national median.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Canton.
Who works in Canton, and how
Work in Canton centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 75%
- Work from home 23%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Canton
Canton has more parkland per resident than 87% of cities. That concentrates in some parts of Canton and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Canton, month by month
Canton sees roughly 70 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 88 degrees. January highs sit near 37, with lows near 20. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, and August through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 37° | 28° | 20° |
| April | 63° | 49° | 37° |
| July | 88° | 76° | 63° |
| October | 68° | 55° | 44° |
Flying in and out of Canton
Detroit Metro Wayne County sits about 10 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 Canton
Schools across Canton average a B−, better than 54% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- Gallimore Elementary SchoolA+ · 96% proficient
- Achieve Charter AcademyA · 63% proficient
- Tonda Elementary SchoolA− · 60% proficient
Top middle schools
- East Middle SchoolA · 65% proficient
- West Middle SchoolA− · 57% proficient
- Discovery Middle SchoolB− · 40% proficient
Top high schools
- Plymouth High SchoolA− · 63% proficient
- Huron High SchoolA− · 62% proficient
- Canton High SchoolA− · 59% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Canton school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Canton 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 Canton against the other 2,097 cities.
Who Canton suits
Families
Schools land around the 54th percentile and crime safety beats 67%.
Remote workers
Cost of living against local pay beats 85% of cities and 23% already work from home.
Common questions about living in Canton
Is Canton a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Canton ranks 529th of 2,098 cities. It scores highest on a stable housing market, low disaster risk, and health care access, and lowest on car insurance costs and transit. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Canton expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $379,870. The overall cost of living runs about 0% below the national average. Set against a $131,064 median income, cost of living beats 85% of cities.
Is Canton safe?
Yes, Canton is safer than 67% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $286 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Canton?
July highs average about 88 degrees, and January highs near 37 with lows near 20. That works out to about 70 pleasant days a year, more than 27% of cities.
Is Canton good for families?
Schools beat 54% of cities, crime safety beats 67%, and childcare runs $834 a month.
Compare Canton with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Canton. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Canton 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.
Canton detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Canton: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Canton: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Canton: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Canton: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Canton 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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