Best PlacesCoventry, VT Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Coventry, 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.
Coventry ranks 40,863rd of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. A weak job market pulls hardest against it, while it scores best on heat safety.
The best neighborhoods in Coventry
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.
Coventry's strengths and weaknesses
Where Coventry ranks high
- Heat safetyBetter than 86% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 84% of towns
- Tree shadeBetter than 81% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than 80% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than 70% of towns
Where Coventry ranks low
- Local economyBetter than only 6% of towns
- School gradeD, better than only 8% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,312 a month, better than only 9% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 13% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 14% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Coventry
A household needs to earn about $59,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Coventry home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $67,264, 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 Coventry's effective rate of 1.40%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices and rents, renting stays cheaper than buying across the first 10 years here, so the case for buying rests on staying much longer or on prices rising faster than assumed. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Coventry
Coventry runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Coventry.
Who works in Coventry, and how
Work in Coventry centers on retail trade and construction. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 89%
- Work from home 10%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Coventry
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Coventry.
What the weather is like in Coventry, month by month
Coventry sees roughly 81 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 80 degrees. January highs sit near 28, with lows near 9. The comfortable stretch runs June through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 28° | 19° | 9° |
| April | 54° | 41° | 30° |
| July | 80° | 68° | 57° |
| October | 60° | 48° | 38° |
Flying in and out of Coventry
The nearest airport, Patrick Leahy Burlington International, is about 52 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is General Edward Lawrence Logan International, about 185 miles away.
The best schools in and around Coventry
Schools across Coventry average a D, better than 8% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Stratford Public SchoolD− · 14% proficient
Top high schools
- Colebrook Academy And Elementary School (h)C · 34% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Coventry school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Coventry 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 Coventry against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Coventry
Is Coventry a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Coventry ranks 40,863rd of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on heat safety, cheap car insurance, and tree cover, and lowest on a weak job market and the schools. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Coventry expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $207,169. The overall cost of living runs about 2% below the national average. Set against a $67,264 median income, cost of living beats 25% of towns.
Is Coventry safe?
Coventry is safer than 46% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $352 per resident a year.
Compare Coventry with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Coventry. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Coventry 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.
Coventry detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Coventry: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Coventry: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Coventry: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Coventry: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Coventry 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.