Best PlacesGoshen, IN Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Goshen, 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.
Goshen ranks 1,319th of 2,098 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on low disaster risk by a wide margin, and education levels rank lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Goshen
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 Goshen
The parts of Goshen, ranked by the BestNeighborhood standard score across every neighborhood, highest scoring first.
Pickwick Village
Parkside
East Lincoln Crossroads
Goshen shows why a single number is not enough. Some neighborhoods score in the bottom 7% of the country and others in the top 9%. Pick the area first, then the home.
Goshen's strengths and weaknesses
Where Goshen ranks high
- Disaster safetyBetter than 95% of cities
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 94% of cities
- Short commute19.0 minutes each way, better than 91% of cities
- Internet speedBetter than 82% of cities
- State infrastructureBetter than 81% of cities
Where Goshen ranks low
- Educational attainmentBetter than only 17% of cities
- Crime safetyBetter than only 19% of cities
- Health outlookBetter than only 20% of cities
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 21% of cities
- Low vacancyBetter than only 23% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Goshen
A household needs to earn about $60,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Goshen home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $77,310, 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 Goshen's effective rate of 0.89%, 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 7 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Goshen
Goshen runs younger than the country, 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 Goshen.
Who works in Goshen, and how
Work in Goshen 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 6%
- Transit, walk, or bike 7%
Life in Goshen
Goshen has more restaurants and bars per resident than 66% of cities and more parkland per resident than 90% of cities. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Goshen and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Goshen, month by month
Goshen sees roughly 82 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 85 degrees. January highs sit near 35, with lows near 19. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 35° | 27° | 19° |
| April | 62° | 49° | 37° |
| July | 85° | 73° | 62° |
| October | 67° | 54° | 43° |
Flying in and out of Goshen
The nearest airport, South Bend International, is about 26 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Chicago Midway International, about 100 miles away.
The best schools in and around Goshen
Schools across Goshen average a C+, better than 40% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- Middlebury Elementary SchoolA · 65% proficient
- Wakarusa Elementary SchoolA · 63% proficient
- Orchard View SchoolB+ · 55% proficient
Top middle schools
- North Wood Middle SchoolA− · 56% proficient
- Goshen Junior High SchoolC− · 30% proficient
- Concord Intermediate SchoolC− · 28% proficient
Top high schools
- North Wood High SchoolB+ · 57% proficient
- Goshen High SchoolB · 50% proficient
- Northridge High SchoolB · 47% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Goshen school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Goshen 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 Goshen against the other 2,097 cities.
Who Goshen suits
Remote workers
Internet is fast and widely advertised and 6% already work from home.
Retirees
Set weather, quiet, and health care weights on the map to test the fit.
Common questions about living in Goshen
Is Goshen a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Goshen ranks 1,319th of 2,098 cities. It scores highest on low disaster risk, cheap car insurance, and short commutes, and lowest on education levels and crime. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Goshen expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $227,973. The overall cost of living runs about 14% below the national average. Set against a $77,310 median income, cost of living beats 42% of cities.
Is Goshen safe?
Goshen is safer than 19% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $412 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Goshen?
July highs average about 85 degrees, and January highs near 35 with lows near 19. That works out to about 82 pleasant days a year, more than 47% of cities.
What are the best neighborhoods in Goshen?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Pickwick Village, Parkside, and East Lincoln Crossroads. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Compare Goshen with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Goshen. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Goshen 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.
Goshen detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Goshen: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Goshen: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Goshen: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Goshen: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Goshen 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.