Best PlacesLeetsville, MI Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Leetsville, 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.
Leetsville ranks 43,350th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on low disaster risk by a wide margin, and car insurance costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Leetsville
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.
Leetsville's strengths and weaknesses
Where Leetsville ranks high
- Disaster safetyBetter than 97% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than 91% of towns
- Tree shadeBetter than 88% of towns
- QuietBetter than 80% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than 78% of towns
Where Leetsville ranks low
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 2% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than only 10% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than only 13% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than only 19% of towns
- Local economyBetter than only 19% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Leetsville
A household needs to earn about $50,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Leetsville home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $57,048, 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 Leetsville's effective rate of 0.91%, 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.
Who lives in Leetsville
Leetsville 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 Leetsville.
Who works in Leetsville, and how
Work in Leetsville centers on manufacturing and transportation & warehousing. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 92%
- Work from home 6%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Leetsville
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Leetsville.
What the weather is like in Leetsville, month by month
Leetsville sees roughly 90 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 81 degrees. January highs sit near 30, with lows near 19. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 30° | 24° | 19° |
| April | 53° | 42° | 33° |
| July | 81° | 69° | 58° |
| October | 59° | 50° | 42° |
Flying in and out of Leetsville
The nearest airport, Cherry Capital, is about 31 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is General Mitchell International, about 197 miles away.
The best schools in and around Leetsville
Schools across Leetsville average a C−, better than 21% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Birch Street Elementary SchoolC · 33% proficient
- Mancelona Elementary SchoolC− · 28% proficient
Top middle schools
- Mancelona Middle SchoolC · 33% proficient
- Kalkaska Middle SchoolD+ · 24% proficient
Top high schools
- Kalkaska High SchoolC · 32% proficient
- Mancelona High SchoolD · 20% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Leetsville school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Leetsville 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 Leetsville against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Leetsville
Is Leetsville a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Leetsville ranks 43,350th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on low disaster risk, heat safety, and tree cover, and lowest on car insurance costs and distance from a big city. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Leetsville expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $187,063. The overall cost of living runs about 12% below the national average. Set against a $57,048 median income, cost of living beats 22% of towns.
Is Leetsville safe?
Leetsville is safer than 13% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $635 per resident a year.
Compare Leetsville with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Leetsville. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Leetsville 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.
Leetsville detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Leetsville: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Leetsville: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Leetsville: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Leetsville: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Leetsville 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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