Best PlacesFrog Jump, TN Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Frog Jump, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. This page is for people who live here or already know they want to. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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Frog Jump ranks 33,867th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on state finances by a wide margin, and summer heat is the weak spot.

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The best neighborhoods in Frog Jump

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Frog Jump 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.

Frog Jump's strengths and weaknesses

Top 5%State finances
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Frog Jump with other towns.

Where Frog Jump ranks high

  • State fiscal healthBetter than 96% of towns
  • QuietBetter than 86% of towns
  • Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 84% of towns
  • Cheap childcare$564 a month, better than 84% of towns
  • State infrastructureBetter than 83% of towns

Where Frog Jump ranks low

  • Heat safetyBetter than only 9% of towns
  • Disaster safetyBetter than only 13% of towns
  • BikingBetter than only 13% of towns
  • Health outlookBetter than only 18% of towns
  • Cell coverageBetter than only 18% of towns

What it costs to buy a home in Frog Jump

A household needs to earn about $29,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Frog Jump home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $66,555, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.

Income to buy the median home
$29,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$684
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $115,826 home
Median rent
$1,281
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$591
Property tax$55
Homeowners insurance$39

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 Frog Jump's effective rate of 0.57%, 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 2 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.

Cumulative cost of renting versus owning the median home, first 10 years. Illustrative estimate.

Who lives in Frog Jump

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

Median age
46
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
25%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.3
below the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1816%
18 to 3418%
35 to 4920%
50 to 6421%
65 and older25%

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


Who works in Frog Jump, and how

Work in Frog Jump centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.

Work from home
10%
below the national average
Unemployment
3.5%
below the national average
Job growth
−1.6%
/y 2019-2023, slower than the national pace

Largest industries

Manufacturing27%
Health care & social13%
Retail trade10%
Construction10%
Agriculture & forestry7%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 88%
  • Work from home 10%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 2%

Life in Frog Jump

The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Frog Jump.


What the weather is like in Frog Jump, month by month

Frog Jump sees roughly 92 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 90 degrees. January highs sit near 48, with lows near 32. The comfortable stretch runs April, May, September, and October.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January48°39°32°
April72°61°52°
July90°81°72°
October74°62°52°

Flying in and out of Frog Jump

The nearest airport, McKellar-Sipes Regional, is about 22 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Memphis International, about 73 miles away.

Nearest airport
MKL
McKellar-Sipes Regional, about 22 miles
Airport size
Nonprimary
2 nonstop destinations
Average drive
32 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Frog Jump

Schools across Frog Jump average a B−, better than 53% of towns.

Top elementary schools

Top middle schools

Top high schools

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


Frog Jump 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 Frog Jump against the other 50,332 towns.


Common questions about living in Frog Jump

Is Frog Jump a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Frog Jump ranks 33,867th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on state finances, quiet, and low taxes, and lowest on summer heat and disaster risk. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Frog Jump expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $115,826. The overall cost of living runs about 21% below the national average. Set against a $66,555 median income, cost of living beats 54% of towns.

Is Frog Jump safe?

Frog Jump is safer than 26% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $531 per resident a year.


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Sources and methodology

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

Frog Jump detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

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

Frog Jump 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. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  5. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  6. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  7. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  8. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  9. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  10. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  11. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  12. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.