Best PlacesEvansville, IN Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in the Evansville metro, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. The averages are not the whole story, and the strongest areas score well above them. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
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Evansville ranks 299th of 387 U.S. metro areas on the BestNeighborhood index. It ranks low mainly on the weather and crime. It does better on health care access, which keeps it off the bottom.
The best neighborhoods in the Evansville metro
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 Evansville
The towns and districts of the Evansville metro, ranked by the BestNeighborhood standard score across every neighborhood in each, highest scoring first. Each note says how that part differs from the rest of the metro.
Newburgh
Crime runs lower, prices have run up less, and fewer homes sit empty.
Boonville & Chandler
It is quieter and more residents vote.
Wadesville
Biking is worse and streets are more car-dependent.
Mount Vernon
Tree cover is thicker, though fewer households have young kids.
Downtown Evansville
Local pay stretches less far and incomes run lower.
Evansville shows why a single number is not enough. Some neighborhoods score in the bottom 2% of the country and others in the top 1%. Pick the area first, then the home.
Evansville's strengths and weaknesses
Evansville ranks near the bottom because several of the basics fall short at once. Health care access, cheap car insurance, and state infrastructure carry most of that.
The weak spots are broad rather than narrow: the weather, crime, and noise all drag on the score. Those are area averages, and the map below shows which parts run well above them.
Where Evansville ranks high
- Healthcare accessBetter than 90% of metro areas
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 86% of metro areas
- State infrastructureBetter than 79% of metro areas
- Short commute20.9 minutes each way, better than 76% of metro areas
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 69% of metro areas
Where Evansville ranks low
- Nice weatherabout 52 pleasant days a year, better than only 1% of metro areas
- Crime safetyBetter than only 7% of metro areas
- QuietBetter than only 8% of metro areas
- TransitBetter than only 13% of metro areas
- Big-city accessBetter than only 20% of metro areas
What it costs to buy a home in Evansville
A household needs to earn about $53,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Evansville home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $77,472, 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 Evansville's effective rate of 0.74%, 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 6 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Evansville
Evansville's age mix sits close to the national median, 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 Evansville.
Who works in Evansville, and how
Work in Evansville centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 87%
- Work from home 8%
- Transit, walk, or bike 5%
Life in Evansville
Evansville has more parkland per resident than 68% of metro areas. That concentrates in some parts of Evansville and thins out in others, which the map shows.
Is Evansville growing, and who is moving in?
Evansville has grown about 1% over the last decade. The largest inbound stream comes from Indianapolis, IN.
Where new residents come from
Where people leaving Evansville go
Move counts are the latest county-to-county migration flows, each county grouped into its metro.
What the weather is like in Evansville, month by month
Evansville sees roughly 52 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 91 degrees. January highs sit near 45, with lows near 25. The comfortable stretch runs April, May, September, and October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 45° | 34° | 25° |
| April | 71° | 57° | 45° |
| July | 91° | 79° | 69° |
| October | 75° | 60° | 48° |
Flying in and out of Evansville
The nearest airport, Evansville Regional, is about 3 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Indianapolis International, about 137 miles away.
The best schools in and around Evansville
Schools across Evansville average a B−, better than 65% of metro areas.
Top elementary schools
- Mccutchanville Elementary SchoolA+ · 73% proficient
- South Terrace ElementaryA · 66% proficient
- Marrs Elementary SchoolA · 63% proficient
Top middle schools
- North Posey Junior High SchoolA− · 55% proficient
- North Junior High SchoolB+ · 51% proficient
- Perry Heights Middle SchoolB+ · 48% proficient
Top high schools
- Signature School IncA+ · 95% proficient
- North High SchoolA− · 62% proficient
- Gibson Southern High SchoolA− · 62% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Evansville school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Evansville 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 Evansville against the other 386 metro areas.
Who Evansville suits
Remote workers
Internet is fast and widely advertised and 8% already work from home.
Common questions about living in Evansville
Is Evansville a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Evansville ranks 299th of 387 metro areas. It scores highest on health care access, cheap car insurance, and state infrastructure, and lowest on the weather and crime. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Evansville expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $202,634. The overall cost of living runs about 14% below the national average. Set against a $77,472 median income, cost of living beats 59% of metro areas.
Is Evansville safe?
Evansville is safer than 7% of metro areas. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $451 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Evansville?
July highs average about 91 degrees, and January highs near 45 with lows near 25. That works out to about 52 pleasant days a year, more than 0% of metro areas.
What are the best neighborhoods in Evansville?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Newburgh, Boonville & Chandler, and Wadesville. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Is Evansville good for families?
Schools beat 65% of metro areas, crime safety beats 7%, and childcare runs $886 a month.
Is Evansville good for remote workers?
Cost of living against local pay beats 59% of metro areas, and the fastest advertised internet here beats 63% of metro areas. About 8% of workers already work from home.
Compare Evansville with other metro areas
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Evansville. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Evansville 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.
Evansville detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Evansville: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Evansville: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Evansville: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Evansville: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Evansville 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.
- U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program: population growth and net migration behind the population-change section.
- 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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