Best PlacesCohill, MD Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Cohill, 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.
Cohill ranks 30,669th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. Long commutes pulls hardest against it, while it scores best on what local pay buys.
The best neighborhoods in Cohill
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.
Cohill's strengths and weaknesses
Where Cohill ranks high
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 88% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 85% of towns
- Household income$95,463 median, better than 82% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than 82% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than 74% of towns
Where Cohill ranks low
- Short commute48.9 minutes each way, better than only 1% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 1% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 8% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 8% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 9% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Cohill
A household needs to earn about $65,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Cohill home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $95,463, 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 Cohill's effective rate of 0.99%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Who lives in Cohill
Cohill 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 Cohill.
Who works in Cohill, and how
Work in Cohill centers on public administration and retail trade. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 96%
- Work from home 2%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Cohill
Cohill has more restaurants and bars per resident than 99% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Cohill and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Cohill, month by month
Cohill sees roughly 76 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 90 degrees. January highs sit near 44, with lows near 24. The comfortable stretch runs April through June and August through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 44° | 33° | 24° |
| April | 69° | 55° | 42° |
| July | 90° | 76° | 64° |
| October | 71° | 57° | 45° |
Flying in and out of Cohill
The nearest airport, Hagerstown Regional/Richard A Henson Field, is about 30 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Washington Dulles International, about 67 miles away.
The best schools in and around Cohill
Schools across Cohill average a B−, better than 60% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Hancock ElementaryD · 18% proficient
Top middle schools
- Warm Springs Middle SchoolD+ · 26% proficient
Top high schools
- Barbara Ingram School For The ArtsA · 70% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Cohill school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Cohill 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 Cohill against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Cohill
Is Cohill a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Cohill ranks 30,669th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on what local pay buys, big-city access, and high incomes, and lowest on long commutes and taxes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Cohill expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $243,000. The overall cost of living runs about 15% below the national average. Set against a $95,463 median income, cost of living beats 88% of towns.
Is Cohill safe?
Yes, Cohill is safer than 74% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $222 per resident a year.
Compare Cohill with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Cohill. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Cohill 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.
Cohill detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Cohill: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Cohill: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Cohill: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Cohill: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Cohill 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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