Best PlacesMorattico, VA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Morattico, 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.
Morattico ranks 30,724th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on cheap car insurance by a wide margin, and disaster risk is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Morattico
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.
Morattico's strengths and weaknesses
Where Morattico ranks high
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 90% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 85% of towns
- QuietBetter than 83% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than 79% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 78% of towns
Where Morattico ranks low
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 4% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than only 10% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than only 12% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 16% of towns
- Local economyBetter than only 19% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Morattico
A household needs to earn about $36,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Morattico home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $86,302, 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 Morattico's effective rate of 0.48%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Who lives in Morattico
Morattico runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Morattico.
Who works in Morattico, and how
Work in Morattico centers on agriculture & forestry and health care & social. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 92%
- Work from home 5%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Morattico
The coast is about 1 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Morattico, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Morattico, month by month
Morattico sees roughly 72 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 90 degrees. January highs sit near 48, with lows near 30. The comfortable stretch runs April through June, September, and October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 48° | 38° | 30° |
| April | 71° | 58° | 47° |
| July | 90° | 79° | 70° |
| October | 72° | 61° | 51° |
Flying in and out of Morattico
Richmond International sits about 43 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 2.5 million passengers in 2025, with 72 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Morattico
Schools across Morattico average a C+, better than 46% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Lancaster PrimaryC− · 30% proficient
Top middle schools
- Lancaster MiddleC · 35% proficient
Top high schools
- Lancaster HighB− · 45% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Morattico school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Morattico 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 Morattico against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Morattico
Is Morattico a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Morattico ranks 30,724th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on cheap car insurance, big-city access, and quiet, and lowest on disaster risk and crime. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Morattico expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $144,000. The overall cost of living runs about 6% below the national average. Set against a $86,302 median income, cost of living beats 75% of towns.
Is Morattico safe?
Morattico is safer than 10% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $541 per resident a year.
Compare Morattico with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Morattico. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Morattico 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.
Morattico detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Morattico: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Morattico: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Morattico: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Morattico: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Morattico 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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