Best PlacesMifflintown, PA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Mifflintown, 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.
Mifflintown ranks 24,226th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores best on big-city access, and noise is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Mifflintown
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.
Mifflintown's strengths and weaknesses
Where Mifflintown ranks high
- Big-city accessBetter than 86% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than 84% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than 80% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 79% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than 77% of towns
Where Mifflintown ranks low
- QuietBetter than only 12% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 19% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than only 24% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than only 27% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 27% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Mifflintown
A household needs to earn about $59,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Mifflintown home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $62,049, 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 Mifflintown's effective rate of 0.98%, 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 Mifflintown
Mifflintown runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Mifflintown.
Who works in Mifflintown, and how
Work in Mifflintown centers on manufacturing and retail trade. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 85%
- Work from home 10%
- Transit, walk, or bike 4%
Life in Mifflintown
Mifflintown has more restaurants and bars per resident than 68% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Mifflintown and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Mifflintown, month by month
Mifflintown sees roughly 76 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 87 degrees. January highs sit near 37, with lows near 25. The comfortable stretch runs May through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 37° | 31° | 25° |
| April | 63° | 52° | 42° |
| July | 87° | 75° | 65° |
| October | 65° | 55° | 46° |
Flying in and out of Mifflintown
The nearest airport, State College Regional, is about 31 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall, about 104 miles away.
The best schools in and around Mifflintown
Schools across Mifflintown average a B, better than 67% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Shade Gap El SchA+ · 90% proficient
- Greenwood El SchA · 65% proficient
- Juniata El SchB · 45% proficient
Top middle schools
- Tuscarora MsC− · 28% proficient
Top high schools
- Juniata ShsA− · 65% proficient
- East Juniata JshsB · 47% proficient
- Forbes Road JshsC · 34% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Mifflintown school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Mifflintown 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 Mifflintown against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Mifflintown
Is Mifflintown a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Mifflintown ranks 24,226th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on big-city access, walkability, and low crime, and lowest on noise and state infrastructure. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Mifflintown expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $220,425. The overall cost of living runs about 17% below the national average. Set against a $62,049 median income, cost of living beats 38% of towns.
Is Mifflintown safe?
Yes, Mifflintown is safer than 80% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $187 per resident a year.
Compare Mifflintown with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Mifflintown. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Mifflintown 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.
Mifflintown detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Mifflintown: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Mifflintown: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Mifflintown: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Mifflintown: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Mifflintown 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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