Best PlacesRock Hall, MD Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Rock Hall, 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.
Rock Hall ranks 25,842nd of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on fast internet by a wide margin, and taxes are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Rock Hall
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.
Rock Hall's strengths and weaknesses
Where Rock Hall ranks high
- Internet speedBetter than 99% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than 96% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 95% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than 90% of towns
- TransitBetter than 90% of towns
Where Rock Hall ranks low
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 1% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 4% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 5% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 8% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 8% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Rock Hall
A household needs to earn about $76,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Rock Hall home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $85,831, 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 Rock Hall's effective rate of 1.22%, 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 Rock Hall
Rock Hall 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 Rock Hall.
Who works in Rock Hall, and how
Work in Rock Hall centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 81%
- Work from home 8%
- Transit, walk, or bike 11%
Life in Rock Hall
Rock Hall has more restaurants and bars per resident than 94% of towns. The coast is about 3 minutes away. That concentrates in some parts of Rock Hall and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Rock Hall, month by month
Rock Hall sees roughly 95 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 90 degrees. January highs sit near 44, with lows near 31. The comfortable stretch runs April through June, September, and October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 44° | 37° | 31° |
| April | 67° | 57° | 49° |
| July | 90° | 81° | 74° |
| October | 70° | 62° | 55° |
Flying in and out of Rock Hall
Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall sits about 24 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 12.3 million passengers in 2025, with 114 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Rock Hall
Schools across Rock Hall average a C−, better than 23% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Rock Hall ElementaryD · 20% proficient
Top middle schools
- Kent County Middle SchoolD · 20% proficient
Top high schools
- Kent County HighB− · 43% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Rock Hall school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Rock Hall 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 Rock Hall against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Rock Hall
Is Rock Hall a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Rock Hall ranks 25,842nd of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on fast internet, health care access, and big-city access, and lowest on taxes 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 Rock Hall expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $274,577. The overall cost of living runs about 9% below the national average. Set against a $85,831 median income, cost of living beats 77% of towns.
Is Rock Hall safe?
Rock Hall is safer than 38% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $336 per resident a year.
Compare Rock Hall with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Rock Hall. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Rock Hall 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.
Rock Hall detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Rock Hall: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Rock Hall: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Rock Hall: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Rock Hall: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Rock Hall 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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