Best PlacesLegareville, SC Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Legareville, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Local pay runs high here, and housing takes the biggest bite out of it. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Legareville ranks 7,381st of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on what local pay buys by a wide margin, and an overheated housing market is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Legareville
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.
Legareville's strengths and weaknesses
Where Legareville ranks high
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 99% of towns
- Household income$245,431 median, better than 99% of towns
- Local economyBetter than 95% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 95% of towns
- Tree shadeBetter than 94% of towns
Where Legareville ranks low
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 1% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 2% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than only 11% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than only 12% of towns
- BikingBetter than only 14% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Legareville
A household needs to earn about $480,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Legareville home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $245,431, 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 Legareville's effective rate of 0.33%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Who lives in Legareville
Legareville runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Legareville.
Who works in Legareville, and how
Work in Legareville centers on professional & technical and other services. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 60%
- Work from home 36%
- Transit, walk, or bike 4%
Life in Legareville
The coast is about 16 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Legareville, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Legareville, month by month
Legareville sees roughly 105 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 90 degrees. January highs sit near 60, with lows near 42. The comfortable stretch runs February through May, October, and November.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 60° | 50° | 42° |
| April | 76° | 66° | 58° |
| July | 90° | 82° | 76° |
| October | 79° | 69° | 62° |
Flying in and out of Legareville
Charleston AFB/International sits about 16 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 3.2 million passengers in 2025, with 95 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Legareville
Schools across Legareville average a B, better than 72% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Montessori Community SchoolA · 70% proficient
- Mt. Zion ElementaryD+ · 21% proficient
Top middle schools
- Haut Gap MiddleB− · 40% proficient
Top high schools
- St. Johns HighC+ · 40% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Legareville school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Legareville 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 Legareville against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Legareville
Is Legareville a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Legareville ranks 7,381st of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on what local pay buys, high incomes, and a strong job market, and lowest on an overheated housing market and disaster risk. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Legareville expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $1,962,438. The overall cost of living runs about 13% above the national average. Set against a $245,431 median income, cost of living beats 100% of towns.
Is Legareville safe?
Legareville is safer than 12% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $641 per resident a year.
Compare Legareville with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Legareville. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Legareville 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.
Legareville detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Legareville: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Legareville: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Legareville: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Legareville: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Legareville 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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