Best PlacesTucker Hill, VA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Tucker Hill, 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.
Tucker Hill ranks 43,491st of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on cheap car insurance by a wide margin, and the cost of living against local pay is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Tucker Hill
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.
Tucker Hill's strengths and weaknesses
Where Tucker Hill ranks high
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 90% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 88% of towns
- Local economyBetter than 85% of towns
- Short commute20.7 minutes each way, better than 85% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than 77% of towns
Where Tucker Hill ranks low
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than only 3% of towns
- Household income$34,900 median, better than only 3% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than only 7% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than only 10% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 10% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Tucker Hill
A household needs to earn about $109,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Tucker Hill home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $34,900, so buying stretches a typical household.
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 Tucker Hill'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 Tucker Hill
Tucker Hill runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Tucker Hill.
Who works in Tucker Hill, and how
Work in Tucker Hill centers on retail trade and public administration. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 94%
- Work from home 4%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Tucker Hill
The coast is about 6 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Tucker Hill, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Tucker Hill, month by month
Tucker Hill sees roughly 69 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 90 degrees. January highs sit near 49, with lows near 31. The comfortable stretch runs April, May, September, and October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 49° | 40° | 31° |
| April | 71° | 59° | 47° |
| July | 90° | 81° | 73° |
| October | 75° | 63° | 53° |
Flying in and out of Tucker Hill
Richmond International sits about 55 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 2.5 million passengers in 2025, with 72 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Tucker Hill
Schools across Tucker Hill average a B, better than 65% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Cople ElementaryC+ · 38% proficient
Top middle schools
- Montross MiddleB · 45% proficient
Top high schools
- Westmoreland HighB+ · 52% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Tucker Hill school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Tucker Hill 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 Tucker Hill against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Tucker Hill
Is Tucker Hill a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Tucker Hill ranks 43,491st of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on cheap car insurance, big-city access, and a strong job market, and lowest on the cost of living against local pay and low incomes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Tucker Hill expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $433,300. The overall cost of living runs about 10% below the national average. Set against a $34,900 median income, cost of living beats 3% of towns.
Is Tucker Hill safe?
Tucker Hill is safer than 7% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $629 per resident a year.
Compare Tucker Hill with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Tucker Hill. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Tucker Hill 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.
Tucker Hill detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Tucker Hill: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Tucker Hill: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Tucker Hill: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Tucker Hill: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Tucker Hill 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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