Best PlacesConcord, NC Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Concord, 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.
Concord ranks 71st of 445 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. It does not top any single list, but it lands above the national middle on good schools and state finances. The weaker spots are walkability, biking, and an overheated housing market.
The best neighborhoods in Concord
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.
The best areas in Concord
The parts of Concord, ranked by the BestNeighborhood standard score across every neighborhood, highest scoring first. Each note says how that part differs from the rest of the city.
Winding Walk
More adults hold degrees, incomes run higher, and local pay stretches further.
Southern Concord
Crime runs lower and more households have young kids.
Zemosa Acres, Moss Creek & Skybrook Village
Fewer homes sit empty, though it is noisier.
Carolina Village, Concord Mills & Oxford Commons
More residents vote, though tree cover is thinner.
Faggarts East
Biking is worse and streets are more car-dependent.
Logan, South Historic Concord & Eastcliff
Prices have run up more.
Brookwood North
Homes cost less, though heat risk is higher.
Northern Concord
Health outcomes score lower and advertised internet is slower.
Hartsell School & South Corban Avenue
Transit reaches more jobs, though health care is harder to reach.
Concord shows why a single number is not enough. Some neighborhoods score in the bottom 10% of the country and others in the top 1%. Pick the area first, then the home.
Concord's strengths and weaknesses
Concord ranks where it does because the parts of life that are hardest to change mostly work here. Good schools, state finances, and quiet carry most of that.
The drawbacks are real but narrow. Walkability, biking, and an overheated housing market hold the score down. The measures below break that down, and the map shows how much of it holds street by street.
Where Concord ranks high
- School gradeA−, better than 94% of cities
- State fiscal healthBetter than 93% of cities
- QuietBetter than 93% of cities
- Voter turnoutBetter than 93% of cities
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 92% of cities
Where Concord ranks low
- WalkabilityBetter than only 9% of cities
- BikingBetter than only 9% of cities
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 17% of cities
- Cell coverageBetter than only 21% of cities
- Low vacancyBetter than only 22% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Concord
A household needs to earn about $92,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Concord home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $95,987, 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 Concord's effective rate of 0.79%, 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 8 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Concord
Concord runs younger 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 Concord.
Who works in Concord, and how
Work in Concord centers on retail trade and health care & social. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 81%
- Work from home 17%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Concord
Concord has more restaurants and bars per resident than 75% of cities and more parkland per resident than 79% of cities. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Concord and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Concord, month by month
Concord sees roughly 79 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 91 degrees. January highs sit near 52, with lows near 34. The comfortable stretch runs March through May, September, and October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 52° | 43° | 34° |
| April | 74° | 62° | 51° |
| July | 91° | 80° | 71° |
| October | 75° | 63° | 52° |
Flying in and out of Concord
The nearest airport, Concord-Padgett Regional, is about 5 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Charlotte/Douglas International, about 22 miles away.
The best schools in and around Concord
Schools across Concord average an A−, better than 94% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- Cox Mill ElementaryA+ · 80% proficient
- W R Odell ElementaryA+ · 79% proficient
- Patriots ElementaryA− · 59% proficient
Top middle schools
- Harris Road MiddleA+ · 80% proficient
- Hickory Ridge MiddleA+ · 77% proficient
- J N Fries Magnet SchoolA · 67% proficient
Top high schools
- Cabarrus Early College Of TechnologyA+ · 88% proficient
- Cox Mill High SchoolA+ · 82% proficient
- Cabarrus-kannapolis Early CollA+ · 80% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Concord school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Concord 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 Concord against the other 444 cities.
Who Concord suits
Remote workers
Cost of living against local pay beats 84% of cities, internet is fast and widely advertised, and 17% already work from home.
Common questions about living in Concord
Is Concord a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Concord ranks 71st of 445 cities. It scores highest on good schools, state finances, and quiet, and lowest on walkability and biking. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Concord expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $353,690. The overall cost of living runs about 14% below the national average. Set against a $95,987 median income, cost of living beats 84% of cities.
Is Concord safe?
Yes, Concord is safer than 75% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $358 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Concord?
July highs average about 91 degrees, and January highs near 52 with lows near 34. That works out to about 79 pleasant days a year, more than 32% of cities.
What are the best neighborhoods in Concord?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Winding Walk, Southern Concord, and Zemosa Acres, Moss Creek & Skybrook Village. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Is Concord good for families?
Schools beat 94% of cities, crime safety beats 75%, and childcare runs $1,018 a month.
Is Concord good for remote workers?
Cost of living against local pay beats 84% of cities, and the fastest advertised internet here beats 80% of cities. About 17% of workers already work from home.
Compare Concord with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Concord. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Concord 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.
Concord detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Concord: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Concord: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Concord: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Concord: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Concord 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.