Best PlacesLone Jack, MO Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Lone Jack, 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.
Lone Jack ranks 8,764th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on what local pay buys by a wide margin, and noise is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Lone Jack
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.
Lone Jack's strengths and weaknesses
Where Lone Jack ranks high
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 94% of towns
- Household income$117,938 median, better than 92% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than 90% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than 88% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than 85% of towns
Where Lone Jack ranks low
- QuietBetter than only 16% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than only 25% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 26% of towns
- Short commute29.4 minutes each way, better than only 36% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 39% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Lone Jack
A household needs to earn about $103,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Lone Jack home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $117,938, 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 Lone Jack's effective rate of 0.87%, 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 Lone Jack
Lone Jack'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 Lone Jack.
Who works in Lone Jack, and how
Work in Lone Jack centers on health care & social and manufacturing. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 79%
- Work from home 19%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Lone Jack
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Lone Jack.
What the weather is like in Lone Jack, month by month
Lone Jack sees roughly 94 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 89 degrees. January highs sit near 41, with lows near 24. The comfortable stretch runs April, May, September, and October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 41° | 31° | 24° |
| April | 68° | 56° | 46° |
| July | 89° | 80° | 71° |
| October | 70° | 59° | 50° |
Flying in and out of Lone Jack
Kansas City International sits about 41 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 5.7 million passengers in 2025, with 104 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Lone Jack
Schools across Lone Jack average a C+, better than 51% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Pleasant Hill Elem.B · 49% proficient
- Stony Point Elem.B · 47% proficient
- Holden Elem.B− · 40% proficient
Top middle schools
- Grain Valley South Middle SchlB · 44% proficient
- Pleasant Hill IntermediateB · 44% proficient
- Oak Grove MiddleB− · 40% proficient
Top high schools
- Grain Valley HighB · 46% proficient
- Lone Jack HighC+ · 38% proficient
- Oak Grove HighC · 33% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Lone Jack school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Lone Jack 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 Lone Jack against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Lone Jack
Is Lone Jack a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Lone Jack ranks 8,764th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on what local pay buys, high incomes, and few empty homes, and lowest on noise and internet speeds. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Lone Jack expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $389,104. The overall cost of living runs about 8% below the national average. Set against a $117,938 median income, cost of living beats 94% of towns.
Is Lone Jack safe?
Lone Jack is safer than 41% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $407 per resident a year.
Compare Lone Jack with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Lone Jack. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Lone Jack 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.
Lone Jack detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Lone Jack: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Lone Jack: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Lone Jack: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Lone Jack: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Lone Jack 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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