Best PlacesFraser, MI Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Fraser, 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.
Fraser ranks 23,230th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on biking by a wide margin, and car insurance costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Fraser
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.
Fraser's strengths and weaknesses
Where Fraser ranks high
- BikingBetter than 98% of towns
- TransitBetter than 98% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 98% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than 94% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than 90% of towns
Where Fraser ranks low
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 1% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 5% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 16% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 22% of towns
- Local economyBetter than only 27% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Fraser
A household needs to earn about $67,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Fraser home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $76,204, 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 Fraser's effective rate of 1.79%, 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 Fraser
Fraser runs older than the country, 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 Fraser.
Who works in Fraser, and how
Work in Fraser centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 82%
- Work from home 15%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Fraser
Fraser has more restaurants and bars per resident than 80% of towns and more parkland per resident than 85% of towns. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Fraser and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Fraser, month by month
Fraser sees roughly 71 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 85 degrees. January highs sit near 35, with lows near 20. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 35° | 27° | 20° |
| April | 59° | 47° | 35° |
| July | 85° | 74° | 62° |
| October | 65° | 54° | 44° |
Flying in and out of Fraser
Detroit Metro Wayne County sits about 30 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 16.3 million passengers in 2025, with 168 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Fraser
Schools across Fraser average a C, better than 31% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Elem SchoolC · 32% proficient
- Salk Elementary SchoolC · 31% proficient
- Mark Twain Elementary SchoolC− · 27% proficient
Top middle schools
- Richards Middle SchoolC · 33% proficient
Top high schools
- Fraser High SchoolC · 33% proficient
- Arts Academy In The WoodsD+ · 25% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Fraser school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Fraser 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 Fraser against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Fraser
Is Fraser a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Fraser ranks 23,230th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on biking, transit, and cell coverage, and lowest on car insurance costs and property taxes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Fraser expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $225,812. The overall cost of living runs about 10% below the national average. Set against a $76,204 median income, cost of living beats 60% of towns.
Is Fraser safe?
Fraser is safer than 33% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $392 per resident a year.
Compare Fraser with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Fraser. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Fraser 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.
Fraser detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Fraser: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Fraser: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Fraser: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Fraser: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Fraser 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.