Best PlacesMarriott's Griffin Gate Golf Culb, Lexington, KY Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Marriott's Griffin Gate Golf Culb, Lexington, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Several measures below read low, and the ranked lists name which ones. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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Marriott's Griffin Gate Golf Culb, Lexington ranks 4,894th of 5,983 U.S. neighborhoods on the BestNeighborhood index. The weather pulls hardest against it, while it scores best on affordable childcare.

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The best neighborhoods in Marriott's Griffin Gate Golf Culb, Lexington

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Marriott's Griffin Gate Golf Culb, Lexington area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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Marriott's Griffin Gate Golf Culb, Lexington's strengths and weaknesses

Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Marriott's Griffin Gate Golf Culb, Lexington with other neighborhoods.

Where Marriott's Griffin Gate Golf Culb, Lexington ranks high

  • Cheap childcare$797 a month, better than 89% of neighborhoods
  • Internet speedBetter than 78% of neighborhoods
  • Heat safetyBetter than 73% of neighborhoods
  • Local economyBetter than 72% of neighborhoods
  • QuietBetter than 69% of neighborhoods

Where Marriott's Griffin Gate Golf Culb, Lexington ranks low

  • Nice weatherabout 54 pleasant days a year, better than only 1% of neighborhoods
  • Big-city accessBetter than only 10% of neighborhoods
  • Educational attainmentBetter than only 11% of neighborhoods
  • Health outlookBetter than only 12% of neighborhoods
  • Housing crash safetyBetter than only 18% of neighborhoods

What it costs to buy a home in Marriott's Griffin Gate Golf Culb, Lexington

A household needs to earn about $46,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Marriott's Griffin Gate Golf Culb, Lexington home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $54,165, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.

Income to buy the median home
$46,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$1,068
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $173,572 home
Median rent
$1,046
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$885
Property tax$125
Homeowners insurance$58

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 Marriott's Griffin Gate Golf Culb, Lexington'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, buying tends to cost more than renting for about the first 5 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.

Cumulative cost of renting versus owning the median home, first 10 years. Illustrative estimate.

Who lives in Marriott's Griffin Gate Golf Culb, Lexington

Marriott's Griffin Gate Golf Culb, Lexington runs younger than the country, and households here run smaller than average.

Median age
37
younger than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
12%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.4
below the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1826%
18 to 3423%
35 to 4920%
50 to 6418%
65 and older12%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Marriott's Griffin Gate Golf Culb, Lexington.


Who works in Marriott's Griffin Gate Golf Culb, Lexington, and how

Work in Marriott's Griffin Gate Golf Culb, Lexington centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
3%
below the national average
Unemployment
3.6%
below the national average
Job growth
+3.4%
/y 2019-2023, faster than the national pace

Largest industries

Manufacturing23%
Health care & social16%
Retail trade11%
Construction8%
Education8%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 84%
  • Work from home 3%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 13%

Life in Marriott's Griffin Gate Golf Culb, Lexington

The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Marriott's Griffin Gate Golf Culb, Lexington.

Places to eat and drink
20
restaurants, bars, and fast food, about 38.0 per 10,000 residents, more than 58% of neighborhoods

What the weather is like in Marriott's Griffin Gate Golf Culb, Lexington, month by month

Marriott's Griffin Gate Golf Culb, Lexington sees roughly 54 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 89 degrees. January highs sit near 46, with lows near 26. The comfortable stretch runs April through June, 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
January46°35°26°
April70°56°44°
July89°77°67°
October74°60°47°

Flying in and out of Marriott's Griffin Gate Golf Culb, Lexington

The nearest airport, Blue Grass, is about 8 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International, about 67 miles away.

Nearest airport
LEX
Blue Grass, about 8 miles
Airport size
Small hub
116th-busiest in the US, 37 nonstop destinations
Average drive
11 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Marriott's Griffin Gate Golf Culb, Lexington

Schools across Marriott's Griffin Gate Golf Culb, Lexington average a D+, better than 26% of neighborhoods.

Top middle schools

Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Marriott's Griffin Gate Golf Culb, Lexington school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


Marriott's Griffin Gate Golf Culb, Lexington 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 Marriott's Griffin Gate Golf Culb, Lexington against the other 5,982 neighborhoods.


Common questions about living in Marriott's Griffin Gate Golf Culb, Lexington

Is Marriott's Griffin Gate Golf Culb, Lexington a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Marriott's Griffin Gate Golf Culb, Lexington ranks 4,894th of 5,983 neighborhoods. It scores highest on affordable childcare, fast internet, and heat safety, and lowest on the weather and distance from a big city. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Marriott's Griffin Gate Golf Culb, Lexington expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $173,572. The overall cost of living runs about 17% below the national average. Set against a $54,165 median income, cost of living beats 30% of neighborhoods.

Is Marriott's Griffin Gate Golf Culb, Lexington safe?

Marriott's Griffin Gate Golf Culb, Lexington is safer than 28% of neighborhoods. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $558 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 Marriott's Griffin Gate Golf Culb, Lexington. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Marriott's Griffin Gate Golf Culb, Lexington 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.

Marriott's Griffin Gate Golf Culb, Lexington detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

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

Marriott's Griffin Gate Golf Culb, Lexington 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.