Best PlacesMount Laurel, NJ Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Mount Laurel, 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.
Mount Laurel ranks 446th of 2,098 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on health care access by a wide margin, and state finances rank lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Mount Laurel
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.
The best areas in Mount Laurel
The parts of Mount Laurel, ranked by the BestNeighborhood standard score across every neighborhood, highest scoring first.
Brittany, Rancocas Pointe & Park Place
The Lakes, Laurel Creek & Commons of Delancey
Birchfield & Holiday Village
Devonshire & Laurel Place
Scores across Mount Laurel run from about the 51st to the 99th percentile nationally. The map is where that becomes a choice of area.
Mount Laurel's strengths and weaknesses
Where Mount Laurel ranks high
- Healthcare accessBetter than 93% of cities
- Crime safetyBetter than 90% of cities
- Educational attainmentBetter than 88% of cities
- Big-city accessBetter than 88% of cities
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 86% of cities
Where Mount Laurel ranks low
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 2% of cities
- Low property taxBetter than only 8% of cities
- Nice weatherabout 61 pleasant days a year, better than only 9% of cities
- Internet speedBetter than only 18% of cities
- Cheap childcare$1,470 a month, better than only 19% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Mount Laurel
A household needs to earn about $117,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Mount Laurel home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $126,988, 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 Laurel's effective rate of 1.99%, 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 9 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 Laurel
Mount Laurel 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 Laurel.
Who works in Mount Laurel, and how
Work in Mount Laurel centers on health care & social and professional & technical. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 76%
- Work from home 21%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Mount Laurel
Mount Laurel has more parkland per resident than 89% of cities. That concentrates in some parts of Mount Laurel and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Mount Laurel, month by month
Mount Laurel sees roughly 61 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 90 degrees. January highs sit near 45, with lows near 25. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, and August through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 45° | 35° | 25° |
| April | 67° | 54° | 42° |
| July | 90° | 78° | 67° |
| October | 71° | 59° | 47° |
Flying in and out of Mount Laurel
Philadelphia International sits about 19 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 14.8 million passengers in 2025, with 179 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Mount Laurel
Schools across Mount Laurel average a B−, better than 46% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- Springville Elementary SchoolB+ · 53% proficient
- South Valley Elementary SchoolB · 48% proficient
- Parkway Elementary SchoolB · 45% proficient
Top middle schools
- William Allen Middle SchoolB+ · 51% proficient
- Hartford Upper Elementary SchoolB− · 42% proficient
- T. E. Harrington Middle SchoolB− · 40% proficient
Top high schools
- Moorestown High SchoolA− · 63% proficient
- Lenape High SchoolB− · 41% proficient
- Rancocas Valley Regional High SchoolC+ · 36% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Mount Laurel school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Mount Laurel 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 Laurel against the other 2,097 cities.
Who Mount Laurel suits
Families
Schools land around the 46th percentile and crime safety beats 90%.
Remote workers
Cost of living against local pay beats 86% of cities and 21% already work from home.
Common questions about living in Mount Laurel
Is Mount Laurel a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Mount Laurel ranks 446th of 2,098 cities. It scores highest on health care access, low crime, and an educated workforce, and lowest on state finances and property taxes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Mount Laurel expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $383,841. The overall cost of living runs about 0% above the national average. Set against a $126,988 median income, cost of living beats 86% of cities.
Is Mount Laurel safe?
Yes, Mount Laurel is safer than 90% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $135 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Mount Laurel?
July highs average about 90 degrees, and January highs near 45 with lows near 25. That works out to about 61 pleasant days a year, more than 9% of cities.
What are the best neighborhoods in Mount Laurel?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Brittany, Rancocas Pointe & Park Place, The Lakes, Laurel Creek & Commons of Delancey, and Birchfield & Holiday Village. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Compare Mount Laurel with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Mount Laurel. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Mount Laurel 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 Laurel detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Mount Laurel: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Mount Laurel: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Mount Laurel: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Mount Laurel: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Mount Laurel 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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