Best PlacesMount Landing, VA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Mount Landing, 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.
Mount Landing ranks 44,279th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. Long commutes pulls hardest against it, while it scores best on big-city access.
The best neighborhoods in Mount Landing
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 Landing's strengths and weaknesses
Where Mount Landing ranks high
- Big-city accessBetter than 88% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 83% of towns
- Tree shadeBetter than 73% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than 73% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than 68% of towns
Where Mount Landing ranks low
- Short commute43.2 minutes each way, better than only 3% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than only 8% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 9% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 9% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than only 14% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Mount Landing
A household needs to earn about $51,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Mount Landing home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $66,076, 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 Landing's effective rate of 0.58%, 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 6 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 Landing
Mount Landing runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Mount Landing.
Who works in Mount Landing, and how
Work in Mount Landing centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 93%
- Work from home 6%
- Transit, walk, or bike 1%
Life in Mount Landing
The coast is about 20 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Mount Landing, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Mount Landing, month by month
Mount Landing sees roughly 71 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 Mount Landing
Richmond International sits about 38 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 Mount Landing
Schools across Mount Landing average a C+, better than 47% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Tappahannock ElementaryB− · 43% proficient
Top middle schools
- James H. Cary IntermediateC− · 27% proficient
Top high schools
- Essex HighB− · 42% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Mount Landing school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Mount Landing 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 Landing against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Mount Landing
Is Mount Landing a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Mount Landing ranks 44,279th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on big-city access, cheap car insurance, and tree cover, and lowest on long commutes and crime. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Mount Landing expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $200,949. The overall cost of living runs about 9% below the national average. Set against a $66,076 median income, cost of living beats 32% of towns.
Is Mount Landing safe?
Mount Landing is safer than 8% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $594 per resident a year.
Compare Mount Landing with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Mount Landing. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Mount Landing 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 Landing detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Mount Landing: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Mount Landing: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Mount Landing: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Mount Landing: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Mount Landing 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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