Best PlacesHonga, MD Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Honga, 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.
Honga ranks 40,147th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on quiet by a wide margin, and taxes are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Honga
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.
Honga's strengths and weaknesses
Where Honga ranks high
- QuietBetter than 97% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than 93% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 90% of towns
- Local economyBetter than 83% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than 82% of towns
Where Honga ranks low
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 1% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than only 3% of towns
- BikingBetter than only 3% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 4% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 8% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Honga
A household needs to earn about $68,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Honga home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $87,986, 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 Honga's effective rate of 0.92%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Who lives in Honga
Honga runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Honga.
Who works in Honga, and how
Work in Honga centers on hospitality & food and professional & technical. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 81%
- Work from home 16%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Honga
The coast is about 1 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Honga, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Honga, month by month
Honga sees roughly 68 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 91 degrees. January highs sit near 49, with lows near 30. The comfortable stretch runs April, May, September, and October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 49° | 39° | 30° |
| April | 70° | 59° | 48° |
| July | 91° | 81° | 73° |
| October | 74° | 63° | 53° |
Flying in and out of Honga
The nearest airport, Salisbury-Ocean City Wicomico Regional, is about 40 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Ronald Reagan Washington Ntl, about 55 miles away.
The best schools in and around Honga
Schools across Honga average a C−, better than 27% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- South Dorchester SchoolC · 32% proficient
Top high schools
- Patuxent HighA− · 62% proficient
- Cambridge-south Dorchester High SchoolD+ · 25% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Honga school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Honga 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 Honga against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Honga
Is Honga a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Honga ranks 40,147th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on quiet, health care access, and big-city access, and lowest on taxes and crime. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Honga expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $254,600. The overall cost of living runs about 1% below the national average. Set against a $87,986 median income, cost of living beats 62% of towns.
Is Honga safe?
Honga is safer than 3% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $784 per resident a year.
Compare Honga with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Honga. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Honga 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.
Honga detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Honga: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Honga: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Honga: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Honga: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Honga 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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