Best PlacesLetts, IN Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Letts, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. This page is for people who live here or already know they want to. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Letts ranks 20,957th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. Internet speeds pulls hardest against it, while it scores best on cheap car insurance.
The best neighborhoods in Letts
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.
Letts' strengths and weaknesses
Where Letts ranks high
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 89% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than 86% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than 84% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than 80% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than 77% of towns
Where Letts ranks low
- Internet speedBetter than only 5% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 6% of towns
- BikingBetter than only 15% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than only 19% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than only 20% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Letts
A household needs to earn about $54,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Letts home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $81,585, 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 Letts' effective rate of 0.51%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Who lives in Letts
Letts's age mix sits close to the national median.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Letts.
Who works in Letts, and how
Work in Letts centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 85%
- Work from home 11%
- Transit, walk, or bike 4%
Life in Letts
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Letts.
What the weather is like in Letts, month by month
Letts sees roughly 71 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 84 degrees. January highs sit near 38, with lows near 24. The comfortable stretch runs April through June and August through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 38° | 31° | 24° |
| April | 64° | 55° | 43° |
| July | 84° | 77° | 66° |
| October | 68° | 58° | 46° |
Flying in and out of Letts
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International sits about 48 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 4.4 million passengers in 2025, with 99 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Letts
Schools across Letts average a C, better than 39% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Greensburg ElementaryB+ · 54% proficient
- South Decatur Elementary SchoolC+ · 38% proficient
Top middle schools
- Greensburg Community Jr HighC+ · 36% proficient
Top high schools
- Greensburg Community High SchoolB− · 45% proficient
- South Decatur Jr-sr High SchoolC− · 30% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Letts school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Letts 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 Letts against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Letts
Is Letts a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Letts ranks 20,957th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on cheap car insurance, heat safety, and few empty homes, and lowest on internet speeds and taxes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Letts expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $215,459. The overall cost of living runs about 14% below the national average. Set against a $81,585 median income, cost of living beats 75% of towns.
Is Letts safe?
Yes, Letts is safer than 77% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $203 per resident a year.
Compare Letts with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Letts. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Letts 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.
Letts detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Letts: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Letts: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Letts: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Letts: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Letts 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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