Best PlacesWarm Springs, VA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Warm Springs, 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.
Warm Springs ranks 24,061st of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on tree cover by a wide margin, and empty homes are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Warm Springs
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.
Warm Springs' strengths and weaknesses
Where Warm Springs ranks high
- Tree shadeBetter than 94% of towns
- QuietBetter than 92% of towns
- Short commute19.6 minutes each way, better than 89% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 89% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than 78% of towns
Where Warm Springs ranks low
- Low vacancyBetter than only 10% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than only 10% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 16% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than only 17% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than only 18% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Warm Springs
A household needs to earn about $56,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Warm Springs home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $68,003, 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 Warm Springs' effective rate of 0.49%, 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 Warm Springs
Warm Springs 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 Warm Springs.
Who works in Warm Springs, and how
Work in Warm Springs centers on hospitality & food and construction. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 87%
- Work from home 8%
- Transit, walk, or bike 5%
Life in Warm Springs
Warm Springs has more restaurants and bars per resident than 99% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Warm Springs and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Warm Springs, month by month
Warm Springs sees roughly 103 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 79 degrees. January highs sit near 39, with lows near 23. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 39° | 31° | 23° |
| April | 62° | 50° | 41° |
| July | 79° | 70° | 64° |
| October | 63° | 53° | 46° |
Flying in and out of Warm Springs
The nearest airport, Greenbrier Valley, is about 39 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Washington Dulles International, about 138 miles away.
The best schools in and around Warm Springs
Schools across Warm Springs average a B+, better than 76% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Highland ElementaryA · 65% proficient
- Valley ElementaryB · 47% proficient
- Green Bank Elementary-middle SchoolD+ · 25% proficient
Top high schools
- Highland HighA− · 65% proficient
- Bath County HighA− · 63% proficient
- Pocahontas County High SchoolD+ · 25% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Warm Springs school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Warm Springs 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 Warm Springs against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Warm Springs
Is Warm Springs a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Warm Springs ranks 24,061st of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on tree cover, quiet, and short commutes, and lowest on empty homes and cell coverage. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Warm Springs expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $224,950. The overall cost of living runs about 12% below the national average. Set against a $68,003 median income, cost of living beats 46% of towns.
Is Warm Springs safe?
Warm Springs is safer than 17% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $471 per resident a year.
Compare Warm Springs with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Warm Springs. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Warm Springs 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.
Warm Springs detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Warm Springs: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Warm Springs: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Warm Springs: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Warm Springs: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Warm Springs 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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