Best PlacesMount Clemens, MI Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Mount Clemens, 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.
Mount Clemens ranks 37,487th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on biking by a wide margin, and car insurance costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Mount Clemens
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.
Mount Clemens' strengths and weaknesses
Where Mount Clemens ranks high
- BikingBetter than 99% of towns
- TransitBetter than 98% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 96% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than 94% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 86% of towns
Where Mount Clemens ranks low
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 1% of towns
- School gradeF, better than only 1% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 7% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than only 12% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 14% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Mount Clemens
A household needs to earn about $52,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Mount Clemens home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $65,442, 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 Mount Clemens' effective rate of 1.36%, 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 8 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Mount Clemens
Mount Clemens 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 Mount Clemens.
Who works in Mount Clemens, and how
Work in Mount Clemens centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 84%
- Work from home 9%
- Transit, walk, or bike 6%
Life in Mount Clemens
Mount Clemens has more restaurants and bars per resident than 83% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Mount Clemens and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Mount Clemens, month by month
Mount Clemens sees roughly 69 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 85 degrees. January highs sit near 35, with lows near 20. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 35° | 27° | 20° |
| April | 59° | 47° | 35° |
| July | 85° | 74° | 62° |
| October | 65° | 54° | 44° |
Flying in and out of Mount Clemens
Detroit Metro Wayne County sits about 36 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 16.3 million passengers in 2025, with 168 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Mount Clemens
Schools across Mount Clemens average an F, better than 1% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- South River Elementary SchoolB · 49% proficient
- Atwood Elementary SchoolB− · 43% proficient
- Joseph M Carkenord Elementary SchoolC+ · 37% proficient
Top middle schools
- Middle School NorthC+ · 39% proficient
- Middle School EastC+ · 37% proficient
- Middle School CentralC · 33% proficient
Top high schools
- High School NorthC+ · 36% proficient
- High SchoolC− · 30% proficient
- New Haven High SchoolD+ · 25% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Mount Clemens school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Mount Clemens 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 Mount Clemens against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Mount Clemens
Is Mount Clemens a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Mount Clemens ranks 37,487th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on biking, transit, and cell coverage, and lowest on car insurance costs and the schools. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Mount Clemens expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $186,039. The overall cost of living runs about 13% below the national average. Set against a $65,442 median income, cost of living beats 41% of towns.
Is Mount Clemens safe?
Mount Clemens is safer than 12% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $562 per resident a year.
Compare Mount Clemens with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Mount Clemens. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Mount Clemens 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.
Mount Clemens detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Mount Clemens: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Mount Clemens: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Mount Clemens: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Mount Clemens: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Mount Clemens 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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