Best PlacesOmena, MI Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Omena, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Local pay runs high here, and housing takes the biggest bite out of it. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Omena ranks 4,197th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on health care access by a wide margin, and car insurance costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Omena
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.
Omena's strengths and weaknesses
Where Omena ranks high
- Healthcare accessBetter than 99% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than 99% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 98% of towns
- QuietBetter than 97% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 94% of towns
Where Omena ranks low
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 5% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 7% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than only 10% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than only 10% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 22% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Omena
A household needs to earn about $153,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Omena home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $122,038, 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 Omena's effective rate of 0.75%, 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 Omena
Omena runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Omena.
Who works in Omena, and how
Work in Omena centers on agriculture & forestry and professional & technical. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 82%
- Work from home 14%
- Transit, walk, or bike 4%
Life in Omena
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Omena.
What the weather is like in Omena, month by month
Omena sees roughly 112 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 81 degrees. January highs sit near 30, with lows near 19. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 30° | 24° | 19° |
| April | 53° | 42° | 33° |
| July | 81° | 69° | 58° |
| October | 59° | 50° | 42° |
Flying in and out of Omena
The nearest airport, Cherry Capital, is about 22 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is General Mitchell International, about 185 miles away.
The best schools in and around Omena
Schools across Omena average a C, better than 36% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Suttons Bay Elementary Middle SchoolD · 17% proficient
Top high schools
- Suttons Bay Senior High SchoolD+ · 25% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Omena school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Omena 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 Omena against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Omena
Is Omena a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Omena ranks 4,197th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on health care access, low disaster risk, and an educated workforce, and lowest on car insurance costs and an overheated housing market. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Omena expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $588,315. The overall cost of living runs about 4% below the national average. Set against a $122,038 median income, cost of living beats 94% of towns.
Is Omena safe?
Yes, Omena is safer than 90% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $198 per resident a year.
Compare Omena with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Omena. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Omena 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.
Omena detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Omena: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Omena: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Omena: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Omena: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Omena 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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