Best PlacesGrantville, PA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Grantville, 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.
Grantville ranks 8,060th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on health care access by a wide margin, and noise is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Grantville
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.
Grantville's strengths and weaknesses
Where Grantville ranks high
- Healthcare accessBetter than 95% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than 94% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 92% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than 89% of towns
- Short commute20.2 minutes each way, better than 87% of towns
Where Grantville ranks low
- QuietBetter than only 12% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 65 pleasant days a year, better than only 15% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 19% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 19% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 27% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Grantville
A household needs to earn about $92,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Grantville home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $79,707, 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 Grantville's effective rate of 1.05%, 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 Grantville
Grantville runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Grantville.
Who works in Grantville, and how
Work in Grantville centers on hospitality & food and health care & social. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 84%
- Work from home 10%
- Transit, walk, or bike 6%
Life in Grantville
Grantville has more restaurants and bars per resident than 93% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Grantville and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Grantville, month by month
Grantville sees roughly 65 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 88 degrees. January highs sit near 40, with lows near 22. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, and August through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 40° | 31° | 22° |
| April | 66° | 53° | 41° |
| July | 88° | 76° | 64° |
| October | 69° | 56° | 45° |
Flying in and out of Grantville
The nearest airport, Harrisburg International, is about 14 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Philadelphia International, about 83 miles away.
The best schools in and around Grantville
Schools across Grantville average an A−, better than 86% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- East Hanover El SchA+ · 80% proficient
- South Hanover El SchA · 70% proficient
- East Hanover El SchA− · 62% proficient
Top middle schools
- Lower Dauphin MsB · 44% proficient
- Northern Lebanon MsB− · 40% proficient
Top high schools
- Lower Dauphin HsA · 71% proficient
- Northern Lebanon ShsC+ · 40% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Grantville school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Grantville 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 Grantville against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Grantville
Is Grantville a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Grantville ranks 8,060th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on health care access, low crime, and big-city access, and lowest on noise and the weather. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Grantville expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $341,984. The overall cost of living runs about 4% above the national average. Set against a $79,707 median income, cost of living beats 42% of towns.
Is Grantville safe?
Yes, Grantville is safer than 94% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $142 per resident a year.
Compare Grantville with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Grantville. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Grantville 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.
Grantville detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Grantville: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Grantville: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Grantville: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Grantville: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Grantville 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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