Best PlacesKing And Queen Court House, VA Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around King And Queen Court House, 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.

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King And Queen Court House ranks 27,997th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. Long commutes pulls hardest against it, while it scores best on quiet.

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The best neighborhoods in King And Queen Court House

Map of the best neighborhoods in the King And Queen Court House area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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King And Queen Court House's strengths and weaknesses

Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare King And Queen Court House with other towns.

Where King And Queen Court House ranks high

  • QuietBetter than 85% of towns
  • Big-city accessBetter than 85% of towns
  • Cheap car insuranceBetter than 82% of towns
  • Tree shadeBetter than 74% of towns
  • Air qualityBetter than 74% of towns

Where King And Queen Court House ranks low

  • Short commute37.3 minutes each way, better than only 9% of towns
  • Cell coverageBetter than only 10% of towns
  • Disaster safetyBetter than only 10% of towns
  • State fiscal healthBetter than only 16% of towns
  • Crime safetyBetter than only 19% of towns

What it costs to buy a home in King And Queen Court House

A household needs to earn about $56,000 a year to comfortably buy the median King And Queen Court House home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $83,097, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.

Income to buy the median home
$56,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$1,296
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $220,269 home
Median rent
$965
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$1,123
Property tax$99
Homeowners insurance$73

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 King And Queen Court House's effective rate of 0.54%, 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.

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

Who lives in King And Queen Court House

King And Queen Court House's age mix sits close to the national median, and households here run smaller than average.

Median age
40
about the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
22%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.2
below the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1824%
18 to 3419%
35 to 4919%
50 to 6416%
65 and older22%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for King And Queen Court House.


Who works in King And Queen Court House, and how

Work in King And Queen Court House centers on education and construction. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.

Work from home
15%
about the national average
Unemployment
2.9%
below the national average
Job growth
−5.8%
/y 2019-2023, slower than the national pace

Largest industries

Education18%
Construction14%
Retail trade12%
Public administration11%
Transportation & warehousing9%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 82%
  • Work from home 15%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 3%

Life in King And Queen Court House

The coast is about 29 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across King And Queen Court House, which the map shows.

To the coast
29 min
drive to the nearest ocean beaches

What the weather is like in King And Queen Court House, month by month

King And Queen Court House sees roughly 72 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 90 degrees. January highs sit near 48, with lows near 30. The comfortable stretch runs April through June, September, and October.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January48°38°30°
April71°58°47°
July90°79°70°
October72°61°51°

Flying in and out of King And Queen Court House

Richmond International sits about 28 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 2.5 million passengers in 2025, with 72 nonstop destinations.

Nearest airport
RIC
Richmond International, about 28 miles
Airport size
Medium hub
65th-busiest in the US, 72 nonstop destinations
Average drive
40 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around King And Queen Court House

Schools across King And Queen Court House average a B, better than 68% of towns.

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


King And Queen Court House 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 King And Queen Court House against the other 50,332 towns.


Common questions about living in King And Queen Court House

Is King And Queen Court House a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, King And Queen Court House ranks 27,997th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on quiet, big-city access, and cheap car insurance, and lowest on long commutes and cell coverage. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is King And Queen Court House expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $220,269. The overall cost of living runs about 13% below the national average. Set against a $83,097 median income, cost of living beats 72% of towns.

Is King And Queen Court House safe?

King And Queen Court House is safer than 19% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $450 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 King And Queen Court House. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in King And Queen Court House 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.

King And Queen Court House detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

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

King And Queen Court House 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.