Best PlacesCranks, KY Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Cranks, 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.

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Cranks ranks 45,161st of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on civic engagement by a wide margin, and health outcomes rank lowest.

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The best neighborhoods in Cranks

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Cranks area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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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.

Cranks' strengths and weaknesses

Top 1%Civic engagement
Top 3%Short commutes
Top 5%Affordable childcare
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Cranks with other towns.

Where Cranks ranks high

  • Voter turnoutBetter than 99% of towns
  • Short commute12.9 minutes each way, better than 99% of towns
  • Cheap childcare$461 a month, better than 97% of towns
  • Housing crash safetyBetter than 83% of towns
  • Tree shadeBetter than 77% of towns

Where Cranks ranks low

  • Health outlookBetter than only 1% of towns
  • Healthcare accessBetter than only 1% of towns
  • Educational attainmentBetter than only 3% of towns
  • Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 8% of towns
  • Low vacancyBetter than only 10% of towns

Who lives in Cranks

Cranks runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.

Median age
69
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
53%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
1.6
below the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1810%
18 to 3412%
35 to 4912%
50 to 6414%
65 and older53%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Cranks.

Who works in Cranks, and how

Work in Cranks centers on retail trade and other services. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.

Work from home
6%
below the national average
Unemployment
0.0%
below the national average
Job growth
−19.5%
/y 2019-2023, slower than the national pace

Largest industries

Retail trade76%
Other services24%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 91%
  • Work from home 6%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 3%

Life in Cranks

Cranks has more restaurants and bars per resident than 98% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Cranks and thins out in others, which the map shows.

Places to eat and drink
31
restaurants, bars, and fast food, about 743.4 per 10,000 residents, more than 98% of towns
Coffee shops
5
about 119.9 per 10,000 residents, more than 99% of towns

What the weather is like in Cranks, month by month

Cranks sees roughly 77 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 88 degrees. January highs sit near 46, with lows near 27. The comfortable stretch runs April through October.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January46°35°27°
April70°56°44°
July88°75°66°
October72°57°46°

Flying in and out of Cranks

The nearest airport, Tri-Cities, is about 47 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Charlotte/Douglas International, about 164 miles away.

Nearest airport
TRI
Tri-Cities, about 47 miles
Airport size
Nonhub
184th-busiest in the US, 13 nonstop destinations
Average drive
67 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Cranks

Schools across Cranks average a D, better than 10% of towns.

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Top high schools

Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Cranks school and its grade on SchoolGrade.

Cranks 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 Cranks against the other 50,332 towns.

Common questions about living in Cranks

Is Cranks a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Cranks ranks 45,161st of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on civic engagement, short commutes, and affordable childcare, and lowest on health outcomes and thin health care access. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Cranks safe?

Cranks is safer than 20% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $412 per resident a year.

What is the weather like in Cranks?

July highs average about 88 degrees, and January highs near 46 with lows near 27. That works out to about 77 pleasant days a year, more than 40% of towns.

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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Cranks. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Cranks 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.

Cranks detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for Cranks: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in Cranks: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of Cranks: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in Cranks: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

Cranks detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. 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.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  5. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  6. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  7. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  8. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  9. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  10. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  11. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.

By the BestNeighborhood data science team. 2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026