Best PlacesVinings, GA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Vinings, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Local pay runs high here, and housing takes the biggest bite out of it. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Vinings ranks 6,644th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on population health by a wide margin, and noise is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Vinings
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.
Vinings' strengths and weaknesses
Where Vinings ranks high
- Health outlookBetter than 99% of towns
- BikingBetter than 98% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 98% of towns
- TransitBetter than 98% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 96% of towns
Where Vinings ranks low
- QuietBetter than only 2% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than only 6% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 13% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 16% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 67 pleasant days a year, better than only 19% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Vinings
A household needs to earn about $150,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Vinings home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $113,568, 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 Vinings' effective rate of 0.61%, 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 Vinings
Vinings runs younger 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 Vinings.
Who works in Vinings, and how
Work in Vinings centers on professional & technical and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 66%
- Work from home 30%
- Transit, walk, or bike 4%
Life in Vinings
Vinings has more restaurants and bars per resident than 84% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Vinings and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Vinings, month by month
Vinings sees roughly 67 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 91 degrees. January highs sit near 56, with lows near 33. The comfortable stretch runs March through May, September, and October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 56° | 43° | 33° |
| April | 76° | 63° | 49° |
| July | 91° | 80° | 71° |
| October | 77° | 64° | 53° |
Flying in and out of Vinings
Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta International sits about 16 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 51.5 million passengers in 2025, with 278 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Vinings
Schools across Vinings average a C−, better than 25% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Teasley Elementary SchoolB− · 43% proficient
- Nickajack Elementary SchoolB− · 40% proficient
- Brumby Elementary SchoolF · 10% proficient
Top middle schools
- Lindley 6th Grade AcademyD− · 18% proficient
Top high schools
- Wheeler High SchoolB− · 41% proficient
- Campbell High SchoolC− · 27% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Vinings school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Vinings 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 Vinings against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Vinings
Is Vinings a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Vinings ranks 6,644th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on population health, biking, and an educated workforce, and lowest on noise and crime. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Vinings expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $588,482. The overall cost of living runs about 9% below the national average. Set against a $113,568 median income, cost of living beats 96% of towns.
Is Vinings safe?
Vinings is safer than 6% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $611 per resident a year.
Compare Vinings with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Vinings. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Vinings 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.
Vinings detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Vinings: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Vinings: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Vinings: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Vinings: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Vinings 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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