Best PlacesCollege Park, GA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around College Park, 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.
College Park ranks 44,201st of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on transit by a wide margin, and noise is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in College Park
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.
College Park's strengths and weaknesses
Where College Park ranks high
- TransitBetter than 99% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than 94% of towns
- BikingBetter than 94% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than 92% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 90% of towns
Where College Park ranks low
- QuietBetter than only 1% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than only 2% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 7% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 9% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than only 9% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in College Park
A household needs to earn about $81,000 a year to comfortably buy the median College Park home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $58,062, so buying stretches a typical household.
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 College Park's effective rate of 0.72%, 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 9 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in College Park
College Park runs younger 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 College Park.
Who works in College Park, and how
Work in College Park centers on transportation & warehousing and hospitality & food. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 66%
- Work from home 14%
- Transit, walk, or bike 21%
Life in College Park
College Park has more restaurants and bars per resident than 96% of towns and more parkland per resident than 88% of towns. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of College Park and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in College Park, month by month
College Park sees roughly 73 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 92 degrees. January highs sit near 58, with lows near 35. The comfortable stretch runs March through May, October, and November.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 58° | 45° | 35° |
| April | 77° | 64° | 52° |
| July | 92° | 81° | 72° |
| October | 79° | 66° | 56° |
Flying in and out of College Park
Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta International sits about 2 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 51.5 million passengers in 2025, with 278 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around College Park
Schools across College Park average a D+, better than 14% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Main Street Charter AcademyC− · 27% proficient
- Atlanta Unbound AcademyD+ · 25% proficient
- Rise Grammar SchoolD · 16% proficient
Top middle schools
- Rise Prep SchoolD− · 16% proficient
- North Clayton Middle SchoolD− · 13% proficient
Top high schools
- Banneker High SchoolB− · 45% proficient
- Martha Ellen Stilwell School For The Performing ArtsB− · 42% proficient
- Tri-cities High SchoolD− · 17% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every College Park school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
College Park 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 College Park against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in College Park
Is College Park a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, College Park ranks 44,201st of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on transit, walkability, and biking, and lowest on noise and crime. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is College Park expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $312,187. The overall cost of living runs about 14% below the national average. Set against a $58,062 median income, cost of living beats 26% of towns.
Is College Park safe?
College Park is safer than 2% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $839 per resident a year.
Compare College Park with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to College Park. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in College Park 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.
College Park detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for College Park: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in College Park: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of College Park: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in College Park: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
College Park 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.