Best PlacesLenox Dale, MA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Lenox Dale, 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.
Lenox Dale ranks 4,286th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on health care access by a wide margin, and noise is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Lenox Dale
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.
Lenox Dale's strengths and weaknesses
Where Lenox Dale ranks high
- Healthcare accessBetter than 97% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 97% of towns
- Household income$140,650 median, better than 96% of towns
- Short commute15.9 minutes each way, better than 96% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 95% of towns
Where Lenox Dale ranks low
- QuietBetter than only 4% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,385 a month, better than only 6% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than only 10% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 11% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 24% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Lenox Dale
A household needs to earn about $114,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Lenox Dale home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $140,650, 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 Lenox Dale's effective rate of 0.96%, 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 Lenox Dale
Lenox Dale 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 Lenox Dale.
Who works in Lenox Dale, and how
Work in Lenox Dale centers on other services and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 67%
- Work from home 30%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Lenox Dale
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Lenox Dale.
What the weather is like in Lenox Dale, month by month
Lenox Dale sees roughly 73 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 83 degrees. January highs sit near 34, with lows near 16. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 34° | 25° | 16° |
| April | 58° | 45° | 34° |
| July | 83° | 71° | 59° |
| October | 63° | 51° | 40° |
Flying in and out of Lenox Dale
Bradley International sits about 39 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 3.3 million passengers in 2025, with 92 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Lenox Dale
Schools across Lenox Dale average a B−, better than 61% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- MorrisB · 50% proficient
- Lee ElementaryC · 35% proficient
Top middle schools
- Theodore Herberg MiddleD · 22% proficient
Top high schools
- Lenox Memorial HighB+ · 55% proficient
- Lee Middle/high SchoolC+ · 37% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Lenox Dale school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Lenox Dale 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 Lenox Dale against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Lenox Dale
Is Lenox Dale a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Lenox Dale ranks 4,286th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on health care access, an educated workforce, and high incomes, and lowest on noise and childcare costs. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Lenox Dale expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $426,854. The overall cost of living runs about 10% above the national average. Set against a $140,650 median income, cost of living beats 95% of towns.
Is Lenox Dale safe?
Yes, Lenox Dale is safer than 83% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $201 per resident a year.
Compare Lenox Dale with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Lenox Dale. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Lenox Dale 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.
Lenox Dale detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Lenox Dale: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Lenox Dale: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Lenox Dale: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Lenox Dale: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Lenox Dale 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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