Best PlacesSouth Rangeley, ME Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around South Rangeley, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Several measures below read low, and the ranked lists name which ones. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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South Rangeley ranks 26,956th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on civic engagement by a wide margin, and an overheated housing market is the weak spot.

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The best neighborhoods in South Rangeley

Map of the best neighborhoods in the South Rangeley area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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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.

South Rangeley's strengths and weaknesses

Top 1%Civic engagement
Top 1%Good schools
Top 3%Cheap car insurance
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare South Rangeley with other towns.

Where South Rangeley ranks high

  • Voter turnoutBetter than 99% of towns
  • School gradeA+, better than 99% of towns
  • Cheap car insuranceBetter than 98% of towns
  • QuietBetter than 97% of towns
  • Tree shadeBetter than 94% of towns

Where South Rangeley ranks low

  • Housing crash safetyBetter than only 2% of towns
  • Cell coverageBetter than only 3% of towns
  • BikingBetter than only 3% of towns
  • State infrastructureBetter than only 9% of towns
  • Low vacancyBetter than only 10% of towns

Who lives in South Rangeley

South Rangeley runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.

Median age
80
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
99%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
1.8
below the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 180%
18 to 340%
35 to 490%
50 to 640%
65 and older98%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for South Rangeley.

Life in South Rangeley

The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across South Rangeley.

What the weather is like in South Rangeley, month by month

South Rangeley sees roughly 80 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 75 degrees. January highs sit near 24, with lows near 10. The comfortable stretch runs June through September.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January24°17°10°
April46°38°30°
July75°66°58°
October54°46°39°

Flying in and out of South Rangeley

The nearest airport, Augusta State, is about 59 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is General Edward Lawrence Logan International, about 175 miles away.

Nearest airport
AUG
Augusta State, about 59 miles
Airport size
Nonprimary
1 nonstop destinations
Average drive
85 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around South Rangeley

Schools across South Rangeley average an A+, better than 99% of towns.

Top elementary schools

Top high schools

Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every South Rangeley school and its grade on SchoolGrade.

South Rangeley 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 South Rangeley against the other 50,332 towns.

Common questions about living in South Rangeley

Is South Rangeley a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, South Rangeley ranks 26,956th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on civic engagement, good schools, and cheap car insurance, and lowest on an overheated housing market and cell coverage. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is South Rangeley safe?

South Rangeley is safer than 17% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $456 per resident a year.

What is the weather like in South Rangeley?

July highs average about 75 degrees, and January highs near 24 with lows near 10. That works out to about 80 pleasant days a year, more than 46% of towns.

Compare South Rangeley with other towns

Towns near South Rangeley

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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to South Rangeley. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in South Rangeley 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.

South Rangeley detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for South Rangeley: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in South Rangeley: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of South Rangeley: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in South Rangeley: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

South Rangeley detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. 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.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  5. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  6. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  7. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  8. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  9. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  10. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  11. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.

By the BestNeighborhood data science team. 2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026