Best PlacesHonor, MI Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Honor, 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.
Honor ranks 19,159th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on low disaster risk by a wide margin, and an overheated housing market is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Honor
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.
Honor's strengths and weaknesses
Where Honor ranks high
- Disaster safetyBetter than 98% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than 95% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than 91% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than 89% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 87% of towns
Where Honor ranks low
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 2% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 4% of towns
- Local economyBetter than only 9% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than only 10% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 22% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Honor
A household needs to earn about $88,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Honor home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $77,095, 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 Honor's effective rate of 0.79%, 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 Honor
Honor runs older than the country, 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 Honor.
Who works in Honor, and how
Work in Honor centers on retail trade and construction. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 81%
- Work from home 16%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Honor
Honor has more parkland per resident than 99% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Honor and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Honor, month by month
Honor sees roughly 127 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 78 degrees. January highs sit near 31, with lows near 22. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31° | 26° | 22° |
| April | 52° | 43° | 35° |
| July | 78° | 70° | 60° |
| October | 59° | 52° | 44° |
Flying in and out of Honor
The nearest airport, Cherry Capital, is about 23 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is General Mitchell International, about 152 miles away.
The best schools in and around Honor
Schools across Honor average a C, better than 32% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Lake Ann Elementary SchoolB · 47% proficient
- Frankfort Elementary SchoolB− · 44% proficient
- Westwoods Elementary SchoolB− · 40% proficient
Top middle schools
- West Middle SchoolB− · 42% proficient
- Benzie Central Middle SchoolD+ · 27% proficient
Top high schools
- West Senior HighB · 46% proficient
- Frankfort High SchoolB− · 43% proficient
- Benzie Central Sr High SchoolC+ · 37% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Honor school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Honor 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 Honor against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Honor
Is Honor a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Honor ranks 19,159th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on low disaster risk, health care access, and civic engagement, and lowest on an overheated housing market and car insurance costs. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Honor expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $338,278. The overall cost of living runs about 9% below the national average. Set against a $77,095 median income, cost of living beats 69% of towns.
Is Honor safe?
Yes, Honor is safer than 66% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $286 per resident a year.
Compare Honor with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Honor. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Honor 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.
Honor detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Honor: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Honor: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Honor: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Honor: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Honor 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.