Best PlacesRest Haven, GA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Rest Haven, 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.
Rest Haven ranks 13,664th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on cell coverage by a wide margin, and noise is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Rest Haven
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.
Rest Haven's strengths and weaknesses
Where Rest Haven ranks high
- Cell coverageBetter than 99% of towns
- Local economyBetter than 96% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than 95% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than 92% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 83% of towns
Where Rest Haven ranks low
- QuietBetter than only 2% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than only 5% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 10% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than only 10% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 15% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Rest Haven
A household needs to earn about $101,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Rest Haven home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $87,058, 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 Rest Haven's effective rate of 0.70%, 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 Rest Haven
Rest Haven runs younger than the country, and households here run larger than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Rest Haven.
Who works in Rest Haven, and how
Work in Rest Haven centers on retail trade and manufacturing. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 78%
- Work from home 20%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Rest Haven
Rest Haven has more parkland per resident than 99% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Rest Haven and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Rest Haven, month by month
Rest Haven sees roughly 88 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 90 degrees. January highs sit near 55, with lows near 33. The comfortable stretch runs March through May, September, and October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 55° | 44° | 33° |
| April | 75° | 62° | 49° |
| July | 90° | 80° | 70° |
| October | 77° | 64° | 52° |
Flying in and out of Rest Haven
Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta International sits about 42 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 51.5 million passengers in 2025, with 278 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Rest Haven
Schools across Rest Haven average a B+, better than 81% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Buford AcademyA · 68% proficient
- New Life Academy Of ExcellenceC+ · 37% proficient
- Friendship Elementary SchoolC− · 29% proficient
Top middle schools
- Buford Middle SchoolA+ · 69% proficient
- Jones Middle SchoolA− · 53% proficient
- C. W. Davis Middle SchoolC · 35% proficient
Top high schools
- Buford High SchoolB+ · 52% proficient
- Mill Creek High SchoolB · 48% proficient
- Lanier College And Career AcademyD− · 12% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Rest Haven school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Rest Haven 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 Rest Haven against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Rest Haven
Is Rest Haven a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Rest Haven ranks 13,664th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on cell coverage, a strong job market, and few empty homes, and lowest on noise and thin health care access. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Rest Haven expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $391,307. The overall cost of living runs about 12% below the national average. Set against a $87,058 median income, cost of living beats 72% of towns.
Is Rest Haven safe?
Yes, Rest Haven is safer than 66% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $231 per resident a year.
Compare Rest Haven with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Rest Haven. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Rest Haven 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.
Rest Haven detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Rest Haven: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Rest Haven: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Rest Haven: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Rest Haven: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Rest Haven 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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