Best PlacesVera, VA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Vera, 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.
Vera ranks 31,401st of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. The cost of living against local pay pulls hardest against it, while it scores best on cheap car insurance.
The best neighborhoods in Vera
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.
Vera's strengths and weaknesses
Where Vera ranks high
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 88% of towns
- QuietBetter than 88% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than 84% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than 83% of towns
- School gradeB+, better than 82% of towns
Where Vera ranks low
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than only 6% of towns
- Household income$45,065 median, better than only 7% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 60 pleasant days a year, better than only 8% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than only 10% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 16% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Vera
A household needs to earn about $44,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Vera home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $45,065, 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 Vera's effective rate of 0.57%, 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 7 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Vera
Vera 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 Vera.
Who works in Vera, and how
Work in Vera centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 80%
- Work from home 13%
- Transit, walk, or bike 6%
Life in Vera
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Vera.
What the weather is like in Vera, month by month
Vera sees roughly 60 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 91 degrees. January highs sit near 52, with lows near 27. The comfortable stretch runs April through June, September, and October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 52° | 39° | 27° |
| April | 74° | 59° | 44° |
| July | 91° | 78° | 67° |
| October | 75° | 59° | 46° |
Flying in and out of Vera
The nearest airport, Lynchburg Regional/Preston Glenn Field, is about 26 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Richmond International, about 79 miles away.
The best schools in and around Vera
Schools across Vera average a B+, better than 82% of towns.
Top middle schools
- Appomattox MiddleA− · 54% proficient
Top high schools
- Appomattox County HighA · 77% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Vera school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Vera 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 Vera against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Vera
Is Vera a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Vera ranks 31,401st of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on cheap car insurance, quiet, and clean air, 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 Vera expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $175,775. The overall cost of living runs about 11% below the national average. Set against a $45,065 median income, cost of living beats 6% of towns.
Is Vera safe?
Vera is safer than 27% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $393 per resident a year.
Compare Vera with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Vera. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Vera 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.
Vera detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Vera: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Vera: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Vera: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Vera: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Vera 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
Move a slider to say how much a measure matters. Zero turns it off.