Best PlacesTolchester Beach, MD Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Tolchester Beach, 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.
Tolchester Beach ranks 22,967th 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 Tolchester Beach
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.
Tolchester Beach's strengths and weaknesses
Where Tolchester Beach ranks high
- Internet speedBetter than 99% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than 98% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 95% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 81% of towns
- QuietBetter than 76% of towns
Where Tolchester Beach ranks low
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 1% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 2% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 8% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 8% of towns
- Short commute36.4 minutes each way, better than only 11% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Tolchester Beach
A household needs to earn about $84,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Tolchester Beach home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $86,250, 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 Tolchester Beach's effective rate of 0.82%, 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 Tolchester Beach
Tolchester Beach 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 Tolchester Beach.
Who works in Tolchester Beach, and how
Work in Tolchester Beach centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 98%
- Work from home 1%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Tolchester Beach
The coast is about 3 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Tolchester Beach, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Tolchester Beach, month by month
Tolchester Beach sees roughly 83 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 88 degrees. January highs sit near 43, with lows near 30. The comfortable stretch runs April through June, September, and October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 43° | 36° | 30° |
| April | 65° | 56° | 47° |
| July | 88° | 80° | 72° |
| October | 69° | 60° | 52° |
Flying in and out of Tolchester Beach
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 Tolchester Beach
Schools across Tolchester Beach 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 Tolchester Beach school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Tolchester Beach 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 Tolchester Beach against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Tolchester Beach
Is Tolchester Beach a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Tolchester Beach ranks 22,967th 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 Tolchester Beach expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $321,800. The overall cost of living runs about 9% below the national average. Set against a $86,250 median income, cost of living beats 81% of towns.
Is Tolchester Beach safe?
Yes, Tolchester Beach is safer than 58% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $268 per resident a year.
Compare Tolchester Beach with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Tolchester Beach. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Tolchester Beach 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.
Tolchester Beach detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Tolchester Beach: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Tolchester Beach: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Tolchester Beach: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Tolchester Beach: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Tolchester Beach 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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