Best PlacesToms Brook, VA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Toms Brook, 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.
Toms Brook ranks 14,634th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on cheap car insurance by a wide margin, and state finances rank lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Toms Brook
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.
Toms Brook's strengths and weaknesses
Where Toms Brook ranks high
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 91% of towns
- Local economyBetter than 90% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 86% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 80% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than 78% of towns
Where Toms Brook ranks low
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 16% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 16% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 17% of towns
- Short commute31.5 minutes each way, better than only 26% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 38% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Toms Brook
A household needs to earn about $80,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Toms Brook home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $81,718, 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 Toms Brook's effective rate of 0.50%, 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 Toms Brook
Toms Brook runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Toms Brook.
Who works in Toms Brook, and how
Work in Toms Brook centers on manufacturing and public administration. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 87%
- Work from home 9%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Toms Brook
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Toms Brook.
What the weather is like in Toms Brook, month by month
Toms Brook sees roughly 82 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 86 degrees. January highs sit near 41, with lows near 26. The comfortable stretch runs May through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 41° | 33° | 26° |
| April | 65° | 54° | 43° |
| July | 86° | 75° | 66° |
| October | 67° | 56° | 47° |
Flying in and out of Toms Brook
Washington Dulles International sits about 52 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 13.9 million passengers in 2025, with 200 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Toms Brook
Schools across Toms Brook average a B+, better than 74% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Sandy Hook ElementaryA− · 59% proficient
- W.w. Robinson ElementaryB+ · 51% proficient
Top middle schools
- Signal Knob MiddleB · 47% proficient
- Peter Muhlenberg MiddleB · 43% proficient
Top high schools
- Central HighB+ · 53% proficient
- Strasburg HighB · 50% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Toms Brook school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Toms Brook 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 Toms Brook against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Toms Brook
Is Toms Brook a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Toms Brook ranks 14,634th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on cheap car insurance, a strong job market, and big-city access, and lowest on state finances and noise. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Toms Brook expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $320,302. The overall cost of living runs about 8% below the national average. Set against a $81,718 median income, cost of living beats 65% of towns.
Is Toms Brook safe?
Yes, Toms Brook is safer than 76% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $235 per resident a year.
Compare Toms Brook with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Toms Brook. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Toms Brook 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.
Toms Brook detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Toms Brook: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Toms Brook: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Toms Brook: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Toms Brook: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Toms Brook 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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