Best PlacesFelt, ID Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Felt, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Local pay runs high here, and housing takes the biggest bite out of it. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Felt ranks 21,545th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on heat safety by a wide margin, and an overheated housing market is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Felt
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.
Felt's strengths and weaknesses
Where Felt ranks high
- Heat safetyBetter than 99% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than 98% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 94% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than 93% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than 92% of towns
Where Felt ranks low
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 1% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than only 3% of towns
- Short commute41.3 minutes each way, better than only 4% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than only 10% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than only 11% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Felt
A household needs to earn about $174,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Felt home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $111,188, so buying stretches a typical household.
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 Felt's effective rate of 0.33%, 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 Felt
Felt's age mix sits close to the national median, 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 Felt.
Who works in Felt, and how
Work in Felt centers on retail trade and construction. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 81%
- Work from home 12%
- Transit, walk, or bike 7%
Life in Felt
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Felt.
What the weather is like in Felt, month by month
Felt sees roughly 74 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 85 degrees. January highs sit near 34, with lows near 7. The comfortable stretch runs June through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 34° | 19° | 7° |
| April | 51° | 38° | 25° |
| July | 85° | 67° | 47° |
| October | 58° | 42° | 28° |
Flying in and out of Felt
The nearest airport, Jackson Hole, is about 28 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Salt Lake City International, about 216 miles away.
The best schools in and around Felt
Schools across Felt average a B−, better than 64% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Tetonia Elementary SchoolA · 65% proficient
- Rendezvous Upper Elementary SchoolC+ · 40% proficient
Top middle schools
- South Fremont Jr HighC+ · 36% proficient
Top high schools
- Teton High SchoolC− · 30% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Felt school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Felt 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 Felt against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Felt
Is Felt a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Felt ranks 21,545th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on heat safety, state finances, and cheap car insurance, and lowest on an overheated housing market and distance from a big city. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Felt expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $709,692. The overall cost of living runs about 7% below the national average. Set against a $111,188 median income, cost of living beats 90% of towns.
Is Felt safe?
Felt is safer than 11% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $638 per resident a year.
Compare Felt with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Felt. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Felt 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.
Felt detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Felt: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Felt: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Felt: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Felt: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Felt 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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