Best PlacesSweet Lips, TN Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Sweet Lips, 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.
Sweet Lips ranks 26,688th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on state finances by a wide margin, and health outcomes rank lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Sweet Lips
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.
Sweet Lips' strengths and weaknesses
Where Sweet Lips ranks high
- State fiscal healthBetter than 96% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 94% of towns
- Tree shadeBetter than 86% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than 85% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 84% of towns
Where Sweet Lips ranks low
- Health outlookBetter than only 6% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than only 9% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than only 12% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than only 16% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 66 pleasant days a year, better than only 18% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Sweet Lips
A household needs to earn about $46,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Sweet Lips home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $68,866, 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 Sweet Lips' effective rate of 0.43%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices, buying tends to cost more than renting for about the first 6 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Sweet Lips
Sweet Lips runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Sweet Lips.
Who works in Sweet Lips, and how
Work in Sweet Lips centers on manufacturing and retail trade. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 91%
- Work from home 8%
- Transit, walk, or bike 1%
Life in Sweet Lips
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Sweet Lips.
What the weather is like in Sweet Lips, month by month
Sweet Lips sees roughly 66 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 91 degrees. January highs sit near 50, with lows near 32. The comfortable stretch runs April, May, September, and October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 50° | 40° | 32° |
| April | 73° | 61° | 50° |
| July | 91° | 80° | 71° |
| October | 75° | 62° | 51° |
Flying in and out of Sweet Lips
The nearest airport, McKellar-Sipes Regional, is about 26 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Memphis International, about 86 miles away.
The best schools in and around Sweet Lips
Schools across Sweet Lips average a B−, better than 57% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Chester County Middle SchoolB+ · 51% proficient
- East Chester Elementary SchoolB · 50% proficient
- Bethel Springs ElementaryC · 33% proficient
Top high schools
- Chester County High SchoolC+ · 40% proficient
- Mcnairy Central High SchoolC · 32% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Sweet Lips school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Sweet Lips 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 Sweet Lips against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Sweet Lips
Is Sweet Lips a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Sweet Lips ranks 26,688th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on state finances, a stable housing market, and tree cover, and lowest on health outcomes and education levels. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Sweet Lips expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $184,290. The overall cost of living runs about 20% below the national average. Set against a $68,866 median income, cost of living beats 66% of towns.
Is Sweet Lips safe?
Sweet Lips is safer than 33% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $460 per resident a year.
Compare Sweet Lips with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Sweet Lips. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Sweet Lips 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.
Sweet Lips detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Sweet Lips: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Sweet Lips: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Sweet Lips: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Sweet Lips: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Sweet Lips 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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