Best PlacesMorristown, AZ Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Morristown, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. This page is for people who live here or already know they want to. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Morristown ranks 37,189th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. Summer heat pulls hardest against it, while it scores best on the weather.
The best neighborhoods in Morristown
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.
Morristown's strengths and weaknesses
Where Morristown ranks high
- Nice weatherabout 138 pleasant days a year, better than 88% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than 84% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 82% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than 78% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 76% of towns
Where Morristown ranks low
- Heat safetyBetter than only 1% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 2% of towns
- Short commute40.7 minutes each way, better than only 5% of towns
- Tree shadeBetter than only 11% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 13% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Morristown
A household needs to earn about $114,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Morristown home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $72,941, 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 Morristown's effective rate of 0.44%, 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 Morristown
Morristown 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 Morristown.
Who works in Morristown, and how
Work in Morristown centers on construction and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 77%
- Work from home 19%
- Transit, walk, or bike 4%
Life in Morristown
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Morristown.
What the weather is like in Morristown, month by month
Morristown sees roughly 138 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 109 degrees. January highs sit near 67, with lows near 40. The comfortable stretch runs February through April and November.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 67° | 53° | 40° |
| April | 88° | 73° | 56° |
| July | 109° | 96° | 83° |
| October | 91° | 76° | 61° |
Flying in and out of Morristown
Phoenix Sky Harbor International sits about 48 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 25.2 million passengers in 2025, with 177 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Morristown
Schools across Morristown average a C, better than 34% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Peoria Traditional SchoolA+ · 73% proficient
- Gavilan Peak SchoolA− · 57% proficient
- Desert Mountain SchoolB+ · 54% proficient
Top middle schools
- Vulture Peak Middle SchoolC− · 28% proficient
Top high schools
- Boulder Creek High SchoolB · 47% proficient
- Liberty High SchoolC+ · 37% proficient
- Wickenburg High SchoolC− · 28% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Morristown school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Morristown 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 Morristown against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Morristown
Is Morristown a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Morristown ranks 37,189th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on the weather, low property taxes, and big-city access, and lowest on summer heat and air quality. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Morristown expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $458,019. The overall cost of living runs about 0% below the national average. Set against a $72,941 median income, cost of living beats 33% of towns.
Is Morristown safe?
Morristown is safer than 43% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $347 per resident a year.
Compare Morristown with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Morristown. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Morristown 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.
Morristown detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Morristown: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Morristown: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Morristown: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Morristown: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Morristown 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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