Best PlacesLumaghi Heights, IL Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Lumaghi Heights, 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.

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Lumaghi Heights ranks 16,278th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on few empty homes by a wide margin, and the weather ranks lowest.

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The best neighborhoods in Lumaghi Heights

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Lumaghi Heights area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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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.

Lumaghi Heights' strengths and weaknesses

Top 3%Few empty homes
Top 5%What local pay buys
Top 5%Fast internet
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Lumaghi Heights with other towns.

Where Lumaghi Heights ranks high

  • Low vacancyBetter than 98% of towns
  • Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 97% of towns
  • Internet speedBetter than 95% of towns
  • Educational attainmentBetter than 91% of towns
  • Household income$109,052 median, better than 89% of towns

Where Lumaghi Heights ranks low

  • Nice weatherabout 50 pleasant days a year, better than only 1% of towns
  • QuietBetter than only 3% of towns
  • Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 3% of towns
  • State fiscal healthBetter than only 4% of towns
  • Air qualityBetter than only 7% of towns

What it costs to buy a home in Lumaghi Heights

A household needs to earn about $94,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Lumaghi Heights home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $109,052, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.

Income to buy the median home
$94,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$2,201
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $325,432 home

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$1,659
Property tax$434
Homeowners insurance$108

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 Lumaghi Heights' effective rate of 1.60%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.


Who lives in Lumaghi Heights

Lumaghi Heights runs older than the country, though fewer residents are over 65 than the national share.

Median age
50
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
15%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.6
near the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1815%
18 to 3416%
35 to 4924%
50 to 6429%
65 and older16%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Lumaghi Heights.


Who works in Lumaghi Heights, and how

Work in Lumaghi Heights centers on health care & social and public administration. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.

Work from home
9%
below the national average
Unemployment
1.1%
below the national average
Job growth
−1.8%
/y 2019-2023, slower than the national pace

Largest industries

Health care & social18%
Public administration16%
Education11%
Construction10%
Retail trade10%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 90%
  • Work from home 9%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 1%

Life in Lumaghi Heights

The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Lumaghi Heights.


What the weather is like in Lumaghi Heights, month by month

Lumaghi Heights sees roughly 50 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 89 degrees. January highs sit near 42, with lows near 25. The comfortable stretch runs April, May, September, and October.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January42°32°25°
April69°56°46°
July89°79°70°
October71°59°48°

Flying in and out of Lumaghi Heights

The nearest airport, Scott AFB/Midamerica St Louis, is about 11 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is St Louis Lambert International, about 24 miles away.

Nearest airport
BLV
Scott AFB/Midamerica St Louis, about 11 miles
Airport size
Nonhub
196th-busiest in the US, 13 nonstop destinations
Average drive
15 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Lumaghi Heights

Schools across Lumaghi Heights average a D+, better than 16% of towns.

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Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Lumaghi Heights school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


Lumaghi Heights 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 Lumaghi Heights against the other 50,332 towns.


Common questions about living in Lumaghi Heights

Is Lumaghi Heights a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Lumaghi Heights ranks 16,278th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on few empty homes, what local pay buys, and fast internet, and lowest on the weather and noise. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Lumaghi Heights expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $325,432. The overall cost of living runs about 18% below the national average. Set against a $109,052 median income, cost of living beats 97% of towns.

Is Lumaghi Heights safe?

Yes, Lumaghi Heights is safer than 74% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $183 per resident a year.


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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Lumaghi Heights. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Lumaghi Heights 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.

Lumaghi Heights detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for Lumaghi Heights: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in Lumaghi Heights: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of Lumaghi Heights: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in Lumaghi Heights: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

Lumaghi Heights detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. 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.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  5. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  6. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  7. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  8. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  9. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  10. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  11. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  12. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.