Best PlacesGuinea, VA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Guinea, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. The coast is close, and the measures below put a number on how close. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Guinea ranks 21,740th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. Long commutes pulls hardest against it, while it scores best on big-city access.
The best neighborhoods in Guinea
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.
Guinea's strengths and weaknesses
Where Guinea ranks high
- Big-city accessBetter than 90% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 84% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than 83% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than 77% of towns
- Tree shadeBetter than 74% of towns
Where Guinea ranks low
- Short commute38.2 minutes each way, better than only 8% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than only 9% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than only 13% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 16% of towns
- BikingBetter than only 16% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Guinea
A household needs to earn about $87,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Guinea home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is only a little above the area's median income of $78,234; the gap is small, which keeps homes within reach of local pay.
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 Guinea's effective rate of 0.56%, 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 Guinea
Guinea runs younger than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Guinea.
Who works in Guinea, and how
Work in Guinea centers on professional & technical and education. Unemployment is low, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 76%
- Work from home 15%
- Transit, walk, or bike 9%
Life in Guinea
The coast is about 34 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Guinea, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Guinea, month by month
Guinea sees roughly 69 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 90 degrees. January highs sit near 48, with lows near 29. The comfortable stretch runs April through June, September, and October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 48° | 38° | 29° |
| April | 71° | 59° | 48° |
| July | 90° | 80° | 71° |
| October | 72° | 60° | 51° |
Flying in and out of Guinea
Richmond International sits about 44 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 2.5 million passengers in 2025, with 72 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Guinea
Schools across Guinea average a B+, better than 74% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Lewis And Clark ElementaryB+ · 52% proficient
- Madison ElementaryB− · 42% proficient
Top middle schools
- Caroline MiddleB+ · 51% proficient
Top high schools
- Caroline HighA− · 60% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Guinea school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Guinea 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 Guinea against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Guinea
Is Guinea a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Guinea ranks 21,740th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on big-city access, cheap car insurance, and few empty homes, and lowest on long commutes and internet speeds. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Guinea expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $343,693. The overall cost of living runs about 3% below the national average. Set against a $78,234 median income, cost of living beats 51% of towns.
Is Guinea safe?
Yes, Guinea is safer than 64% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $261 per resident a year.
Compare Guinea with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Guinea. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Guinea 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.
Guinea detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Guinea: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Guinea: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Guinea: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Guinea: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Guinea 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.