Best PlacesGreen Acres, ND Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Green Acres, 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.

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Green Acres ranks 41,907th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on low property taxes by a wide margin, and distance from a big city ranks lowest.

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The best neighborhoods in Green Acres

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Green Acres 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.

Green Acres' strengths and weaknesses

Top 1%Low property taxes
Top 1%Short commutes
Top 5%Heat safety
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Green Acres with other towns.

Where Green Acres ranks high

  • Low property taxBetter than 99% of towns
  • Short commute10.7 minutes each way, better than 99% of towns
  • Heat safetyBetter than 96% of towns
  • Nice weatherabout 138 pleasant days a year, better than 88% of towns
  • Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 88% of towns

Where Green Acres ranks low

  • Big-city accessBetter than only 3% of towns
  • Crime safetyBetter than only 4% of towns
  • Healthcare accessBetter than only 4% of towns
  • School gradeD−, better than only 4% of towns
  • Voter turnoutBetter than only 5% of towns

Who lives in Green Acres

Green Acres runs younger than the country, and households here run larger than average.

Median age
24
younger than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
4%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
4.9
above the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1835%
18 to 3433%
35 to 4915%
50 to 6413%
65 and older4%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Green Acres.


Who works in Green Acres, and how

Work in Green Acres centers on education and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
3%
below the national average
Unemployment
1.4%
below the national average
Job growth
+1.9%
/y 2019-2023, slower than the national pace

Largest industries

Education32%
Health care & social16%
Real estate10%
Public administration10%
Admin & support services9%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 92%
  • Work from home 3%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 5%

Life in Green Acres

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


What the weather is like in Green Acres, month by month

Green Acres sees roughly 138 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 77 degrees. January highs sit near 18, with lows near 1. The comfortable stretch runs June through September.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January18°
April47°36°27°
July77°66°56°
October51°41°32°

Flying in and out of Green Acres

The nearest airport, Devils Lake Regional, is about 62 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Minneapolis-St Paul International/Wold-Chamberlain, about 410 miles away.

Nearest airport
DVL
Devils Lake Regional, about 62 miles
Airport size
Nonprimary
2 nonstop destinations
Average drive
88 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Green Acres

Schools across Green Acres average a D−, better than 4% of towns.

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Top high schools

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


Green Acres 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 Green Acres against the other 50,332 towns.


Common questions about living in Green Acres

Is Green Acres a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Green Acres ranks 41,907th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on low property taxes, short commutes, and heat safety, and lowest on distance from a big city and crime. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Green Acres safe?

Green Acres is safer than 4% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $948 per resident a year.

What is the weather like in Green Acres?

July highs average about 77 degrees, and January highs near 18 with lows near 1. That works out to about 138 pleasant days a year, more than 88% of towns.


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Sources and methodology

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

Green Acres detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

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

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