Best PlacesDenny Store, NC Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Denny Store, 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.
Denny Store ranks 30,608th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on state finances by a wide margin, and crime is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Denny Store
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.
Denny Store's strengths and weaknesses
Where Denny Store ranks high
- State fiscal healthBetter than 91% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 79% of towns
- QuietBetter than 79% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than 73% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than 72% of towns
Where Denny Store ranks low
- Crime safetyBetter than only 10% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than only 16% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than only 19% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than only 25% of towns
- Local economyBetter than only 25% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Denny Store
A household needs to earn about $49,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Denny Store home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $65,520, 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 Denny Store's effective rate of 0.80%, 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 10 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Denny Store
Denny Store runs younger than the country, though it still carries a larger-than-average share of residents over 65, 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 Denny Store.
Who works in Denny Store, and how
Work in Denny Store centers on health care & social and manufacturing. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 82%
- Work from home 18%
- Transit, walk, or bike 1%
Life in Denny Store
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Denny Store.
What the weather is like in Denny Store, month by month
Denny Store sees roughly 83 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 87 degrees. January highs sit near 48, with lows near 30. The comfortable stretch runs April through June and August through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 48° | 38° | 30° |
| April | 70° | 58° | 47° |
| July | 87° | 76° | 67° |
| October | 71° | 58° | 48° |
Flying in and out of Denny Store
Raleigh-Durham International sits about 36 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 7.7 million passengers in 2025, with 128 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Denny Store
Schools across Denny Store average a B−, better than 58% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- North End ElementaryB · 48% proficient
Top middle schools
- Southern MiddleB · 47% proficient
- Northern MiddleC+ · 36% proficient
- Northern Granville MiddleC · 33% proficient
Top high schools
- Person Early College Innovation & LdrshpB · 47% proficient
- Person HighB− · 41% proficient
- Granville Central HighC+ · 38% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Denny Store school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Denny Store 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 Denny Store against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Denny Store
Is Denny Store a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Denny Store ranks 30,608th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on state finances, cheap car insurance, and quiet, and lowest on crime and cell coverage. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Denny Store expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $186,734. The overall cost of living runs about 10% below the national average. Set against a $65,520 median income, cost of living beats 33% of towns.
Is Denny Store safe?
Denny Store is safer than 10% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $597 per resident a year.
Compare Denny Store with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Denny Store. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Denny Store 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.
Denny Store detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Denny Store: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Denny Store: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Denny Store: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Denny Store: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Denny Store 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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