Best PlacesGuffie, KY Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Guffie, 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.
Guffie ranks 43,649th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. A weak job market pulls hardest against it, while it scores best on a stable housing market.
The best neighborhoods in Guffie
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.
Guffie's strengths and weaknesses
Where Guffie ranks high
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 83% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than 79% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than 78% of towns
- Cheap childcare$660 a month, better than 71% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 67% of towns
Where Guffie ranks low
- Local economyBetter than only 6% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 63 pleasant days a year, better than only 13% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than only 14% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 15% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 15% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Guffie
A household needs to earn about $39,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Guffie home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $60,298, 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 Guffie's effective rate of 0.61%, 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 8 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Guffie
Guffie's age mix sits close to the national median, 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 Guffie.
Who works in Guffie, and how
Work in Guffie centers on health care & social and construction. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 96%
- Work from home 2%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Guffie
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Guffie.
What the weather is like in Guffie, month by month
Guffie sees roughly 63 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 89 degrees. January highs sit near 44, with lows near 28. The comfortable stretch runs April, May, September, and October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 44° | 35° | 28° |
| April | 70° | 58° | 48° |
| July | 89° | 79° | 70° |
| October | 72° | 60° | 50° |
Flying in and out of Guffie
The nearest airport, Owensboro/Daviess County Regional, is about 10 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Nashville International, about 107 miles away.
The best schools in and around Guffie
Schools across Guffie average a C, better than 40% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Calhoun Elementary SchoolB · 45% proficient
Top middle schools
- Mclean County Middle SchoolC− · 29% proficient
Top high schools
- Mclean County High SchoolC− · 30% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Guffie school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Guffie 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 Guffie against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Guffie
Is Guffie a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Guffie ranks 43,649th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on a stable housing market, fast internet, and civic engagement, and lowest on a weak job market and the weather. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Guffie expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $153,600. The overall cost of living runs about 11% below the national average. Set against a $60,298 median income, cost of living beats 22% of towns.
Is Guffie safe?
Guffie is safer than 27% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $355 per resident a year.
Compare Guffie with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Guffie. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Guffie 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.
Guffie detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Guffie: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Guffie: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Guffie: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Guffie: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Guffie 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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