Best PlacesKimbrough, GA Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Kimbrough, 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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Kimbrough ranks 45,584th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on short commutes by a wide margin, and the cost of living against local pay is the weak spot.

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The best neighborhoods in Kimbrough

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Kimbrough 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.

Kimbrough's strengths and weaknesses

Top 3%Short commutes
Top 10%Few empty homes
Top 10%Affordable childcare
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Kimbrough with other towns.

Where Kimbrough ranks high

  • Short commute15.4 minutes each way, better than 97% of towns
  • Low vacancyBetter than 94% of towns
  • Cheap childcare$502 a month, better than 92% of towns
  • Local economyBetter than 90% of towns
  • QuietBetter than 83% of towns

Where Kimbrough ranks low

  • Cost of living vs incomeBetter than only 3% of towns
  • Household income$35,229 median, better than only 3% of towns
  • School gradeD−, better than only 3% of towns
  • Crime safetyBetter than only 7% of towns
  • BikingBetter than only 7% of towns

What it costs to buy a home in Kimbrough

A household needs to earn about $12,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Kimbrough home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $35,229, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.

Income to buy the median home
$12,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$287
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $47,777 home
Median rent
$505
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$244
Property tax$27
Homeowners insurance$16

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 Kimbrough's effective rate of 0.69%, 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 3 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.

Cumulative cost of renting versus owning the median home, first 10 years. Illustrative estimate.

Who lives in Kimbrough

Kimbrough runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.

Median age
46
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
20%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.0
below the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1818%
18 to 3420%
35 to 4919%
50 to 6422%
65 and older20%

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


Who works in Kimbrough, and how

Work in Kimbrough centers on education and transportation & warehousing. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
0%
below the national average
Unemployment
1.5%
below the national average
Job growth
+13.5%
/y 2019-2023, faster than the national pace

Largest industries

Education22%
Transportation & warehousing19%
Finance & insurance18%
Manufacturing13%
Public administration9%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 97%
  • Work from home 0%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 3%

Life in Kimbrough

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


What the weather is like in Kimbrough, month by month

Kimbrough sees roughly 98 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 93 degrees. January highs sit near 62, with lows near 39. The comfortable stretch runs February through May, October, and November.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January62°49°39°
April80°66°54°
July93°81°73°
October82°68°57°

Flying in and out of Kimbrough

The nearest airport, Columbus, is about 39 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta International, about 115 miles away.

Nearest airport
CSG
Columbus, about 39 miles
Airport size
Nonhub
299th-busiest in the US, 2 nonstop destinations
Average drive
56 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Kimbrough

Schools across Kimbrough average a D−, better than 3% of towns.

Top elementary schools

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Top high schools

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


Kimbrough 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 Kimbrough against the other 50,332 towns.


Common questions about living in Kimbrough

Is Kimbrough a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Kimbrough ranks 45,584th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on short commutes, few empty homes, and affordable childcare, and lowest on the cost of living against local pay and low incomes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Kimbrough expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $47,777. The overall cost of living runs about 23% below the national average. Set against a $35,229 median income, cost of living beats 3% of towns.

Is Kimbrough safe?

Kimbrough is safer than 7% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $554 per resident a year.


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Sources and methodology

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

Kimbrough detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

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

Kimbrough 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. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  5. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  6. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  7. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  8. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  9. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  10. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  11. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  12. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.