Best PlacesTowns, GA Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Towns, 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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Towns ranks 46,852nd of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on affordable childcare by a wide margin, and thin health care access ranks lowest.

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The best neighborhoods in Towns

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Towns 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.

Towns' strengths and weaknesses

Top 10%Affordable childcare
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Towns with other towns.

Where Towns ranks high

  • Cheap childcare$502 a month, better than 92% of towns
  • Nice weatherabout 116 pleasant days a year, better than 78% of towns
  • State fiscal healthBetter than 76% of towns
  • State infrastructureBetter than 74% of towns
  • Tree shadeBetter than 69% of towns

Where Towns ranks low

  • Healthcare accessBetter than only 3% of towns
  • Crime safetyBetter than only 9% of towns
  • Low vacancyBetter than only 10% of towns
  • Health outlookBetter than only 13% of towns
  • Heat safetyBetter than only 13% of towns

Who lives in Towns

Towns runs older than the country, and households here run larger than average.

Median age
45
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
29%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
3.1
above the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1822%
18 to 3419%
35 to 4914%
50 to 6416%
65 and older29%

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

Who works in Towns, and how

Work in Towns centers on manufacturing and retail trade. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.

Work from home
4%
below the national average
Unemployment
1.3%
below the national average
Job growth
−21.1%
/y 2019-2023, slower than the national pace

Largest industries

Manufacturing17%
Retail trade13%
Hospitality & food13%
Transportation & warehousing10%
Construction8%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 93%
  • Work from home 4%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 3%

Life in Towns

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

What the weather is like in Towns, month by month

Towns sees roughly 116 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 94 degrees. January highs sit near 65, with lows near 40. The comfortable stretch runs February through May, October, and November.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January65°51°40°
April81°68°55°
July94°82°74°
October83°70°58°

Flying in and out of Towns

The nearest airport, Middle Georgia Regional, is about 71 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Jacksonville International, about 122 miles away.

Nearest airport
MCN
Middle Georgia Regional, about 71 miles
Airport size
Nonhub
373rd-busiest in the US, 3 nonstop destinations
Average drive
101 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Towns

Schools across Towns average a D+, better than 17% of towns.

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Top middle schools

Top high schools

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

Towns 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 Towns against the other 50,332 towns.

Common questions about living in Towns

Is Towns a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Towns ranks 46,852nd of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on affordable childcare, the weather, and state finances, and lowest on thin health care access and crime. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Towns safe?

Towns is safer than 9% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $534 per resident a year.

What is the weather like in Towns?

July highs average about 94 degrees, and January highs near 65 with lows near 40. That works out to about 116 pleasant days a year, more than 78% of towns.

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Sources and methodology

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

Towns detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

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

Towns 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