Best PlacesPiney Bluff, GA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Piney Bluff, 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.
Piney Bluff ranks 28,443rd of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on an educated workforce by a wide margin, and disaster risk is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Piney Bluff
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.
Piney Bluff's strengths and weaknesses
Where Piney Bluff ranks high
- Educational attainmentBetter than 90% of towns
- Local economyBetter than 84% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 120 pleasant days a year, better than 80% of towns
- Household income$91,949 median, better than 79% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 78% of towns
Where Piney Bluff ranks low
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 4% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than only 5% of towns
- Short commute36.7 minutes each way, better than only 10% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than only 10% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than only 19% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Piney Bluff
A household needs to earn about $87,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Piney Bluff home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $91,949, 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 Piney Bluff's effective rate of 0.75%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Who lives in Piney Bluff
Piney Bluff 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 Piney Bluff.
Who works in Piney Bluff, and how
Work in Piney Bluff centers on hospitality & food and education. Unemployment is low, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 86%
- Work from home 11%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Piney Bluff
The coast is about 34 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Piney Bluff, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Piney Bluff, month by month
Piney Bluff sees roughly 120 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 92 degrees. January highs sit near 64, with lows near 44. The comfortable stretch runs February through April and October through December.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 64° | 53° | 44° |
| April | 79° | 69° | 60° |
| July | 92° | 84° | 77° |
| October | 82° | 73° | 64° |
Flying in and out of Piney Bluff
The nearest airport, Brunswick Golden Isles, is about 17 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Jacksonville International, about 37 miles away.
The best schools in and around Piney Bluff
Schools across Piney Bluff average a B, better than 72% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Durbin Creek Elementary SchoolA+ · 81% proficient
- Woodbine Elementary SchoolA− · 62% proficient
- Crooked River Elementary SchoolA− · 57% proficient
Top middle schools
- Fruit Cove Middle SchoolA+ · 77% proficient
- Saint Marys Middle SchoolA · 62% proficient
- Camden Middle SchoolA− · 53% proficient
Top high schools
- Creekside High SchoolA+ · 84% proficient
- Camden County High SchoolB+ · 52% proficient
- Glynn AcademyB · 50% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Piney Bluff school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Piney Bluff 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 Piney Bluff against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Piney Bluff
Is Piney Bluff a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Piney Bluff ranks 28,443rd of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on an educated workforce, a strong job market, and the weather, and lowest on disaster risk and summer heat. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Piney Bluff expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $334,080. The overall cost of living runs about 9% below the national average. Set against a $91,949 median income, cost of living beats 78% of towns.
Is Piney Bluff safe?
Piney Bluff is safer than 38% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $307 per resident a year.
Compare Piney Bluff with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Piney Bluff. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Piney Bluff 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.
Piney Bluff detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Piney Bluff: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Piney Bluff: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Piney Bluff: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Piney Bluff: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Piney Bluff 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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