Best PlacesLynn, MA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Lynn, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. The coast is close, and the measures below put a number on how close. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Lynn ranks 299th of 445 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. The coast is about 3 minutes away. Its strengths are walkability and clean air. The cost shows up in the schools, childcare costs, and the cost of living against local pay.
The best neighborhoods in Lynn
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.
Lynn's strengths and weaknesses
Lynn lands in the middle because its strengths and weaknesses roughly balance. Walkability, clean air, and low crime carry most of that.
The one real hole is the schools, near the bottom of the country. Childcare costs and the cost of living against local pay also cost it ground. The detail is below, and the map is where it turns into a choice of neighborhood rather than just a place.
Where Lynn ranks high
- WalkabilityBetter than 94% of cities
- Air qualityBetter than 92% of cities
- Crime safetyBetter than 90% of cities
- Cell coverageBetter than 86% of cities
- TransitBetter than 83% of cities
Where Lynn ranks low
- School gradeD−, better than only 3% of cities
- Cheap childcare$1,897 a month, better than only 5% of cities
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than only 6% of cities
- Educational attainmentBetter than only 10% of cities
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 11% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Lynn
A household needs to earn about $135,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Lynn home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $82,010, 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 Lynn'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 Lynn
Lynn runs younger than the country, and households here run larger than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Lynn.
Who works in Lynn, and how
Work in Lynn centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 77%
- Work from home 9%
- Transit, walk, or bike 14%
Life in Lynn
Lynn has more parkland per resident than 84% of cities. The coast is about 3 minutes away. That concentrates in some parts of Lynn and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Lynn, month by month
Lynn sees roughly 73 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 86 degrees. January highs sit near 42, with lows near 25. The comfortable stretch runs May through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 42° | 32° | 25° |
| April | 60° | 49° | 40° |
| July | 86° | 75° | 67° |
| October | 67° | 57° | 49° |
Flying in and out of Lynn
General Edward Lawrence Logan International sits about 8 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 21.1 million passengers in 2025, with 199 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Lynn
Schools across Lynn average a D−, better than 3% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- AbornC · 32% proficient
- Edward A SissonC− · 29% proficient
- Lynn WoodsC− · 28% proficient
Top middle schools
- Pickering MiddleD+ · 24% proficient
- Breed Middle SchoolD− · 18% proficient
- Thurgood Marshall MidD− · 17% proficient
Top high schools
- Classical HighC− · 30% proficient
- Lynn English HighC− · 26% proficient
- Fecteau-leary Junior/senior High SchoolF · 8% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Lynn school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Lynn 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 Lynn against the other 444 cities.
Who Lynn suits
Families
Schools land around the 3rd percentile and crime safety beats 90%.
Retirees
Set weather, quiet, and health care weights on the map to test the fit.
Common questions about living in Lynn
Is Lynn a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Lynn ranks 299th of 445 cities. It scores highest on walkability, clean air, and low crime, and lowest on the schools and childcare costs. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Lynn expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $503,961. The overall cost of living runs about 22% above the national average. Set against a $82,010 median income, cost of living beats 6% of cities.
Is Lynn safe?
Yes, Lynn is safer than 90% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $241 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Lynn?
July highs average about 86 degrees, and January highs near 42 with lows near 25. That works out to about 73 pleasant days a year, more than 25% of cities.
Is Lynn good for families?
Schools beat 3% of cities, crime safety beats 90%, and childcare runs $1,897 a month.
Is Lynn good for remote workers?
Cost of living against local pay beats 6% of cities, though advertised internet speeds beat only 12% of cities. About 9% of workers already work from home.
Compare Lynn with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Lynn. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Lynn 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.
Lynn detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Lynn: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Lynn: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Lynn: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Lynn: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Lynn 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
Move a slider to say how much a measure matters. Zero turns it off.