Best PlacesWarren, MI Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Warren, 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.
Warren ranks 411th of 445 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. It ranks low mainly on a weak job market and car insurance costs. It does better on a stable housing market, which keeps it off the bottom.
The best neighborhoods in Warren
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.
Warren's strengths and weaknesses
Warren ranks near the bottom because several of the basics fall short at once. A stable housing market, cell coverage, and heat safety are the strongest pieces, though none of them is exceptional.
The weak spots are broad rather than narrow: a weak job market, car insurance costs, and health outcomes all drag on the score. Those are area averages, and the map below shows which parts run well above them.
Where Warren ranks high
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 83% of cities
- Cell coverageBetter than 77% of cities
- Heat safetyBetter than 74% of cities
- Cheap childcare$860 a month, better than 74% of cities
- Disaster safetyBetter than 72% of cities
Where Warren ranks low
- Local economyBetter than only 1% of cities
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 1% of cities
- Health outlookBetter than only 4% of cities
- School gradeD, better than only 4% of cities
- Household income$64,896 median, better than only 9% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Warren
A household needs to earn about $48,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Warren home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $64,896, 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 Warren's effective rate of 1.50%, 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 4 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Warren
Warren's age mix sits close to the national median.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Warren.
Who works in Warren, and how
Work in Warren centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 82%
- Work from home 14%
- Transit, walk, or bike 4%
Life in Warren
Warren has more restaurants and bars per resident than 70% of cities and more parkland per resident than 83% of cities. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Warren and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Warren, month by month
Warren sees roughly 81 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 87 degrees. January highs sit near 36, with lows near 21. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, and August through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 36° | 28° | 21° |
| April | 61° | 49° | 38° |
| July | 87° | 76° | 65° |
| October | 66° | 56° | 46° |
Flying in and out of Warren
Detroit Metro Wayne County sits about 25 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 16.3 million passengers in 2025, with 168 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Warren
Schools across Warren average a D, better than 4% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- Frontier International Academy ElementaryC+ · 37% proficient
- Westwood Elementary SchoolC− · 30% proficient
- Siersma Elementary SchoolC− · 29% proficient
Top middle schools
- Middle School Mathematics Science Technology CenterA+ · 74% proficient
- Warren Woods Middle SchoolD+ · 26% proficient
- Fisher Magnet Upper AcademyD+ · 25% proficient
Top high schools
- Cousino Senior High SchoolC · 31% proficient
- Warren Woods Tower High SchoolC · 30% proficient
- Fitzgerald Virtual AcademyD+ · 25% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Warren school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Warren 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 Warren against the other 444 cities.
Who Warren suits
Common questions about living in Warren
Is Warren a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Warren ranks 411th of 445 cities. It scores highest on a stable housing market, cell coverage, and heat safety, and lowest on a weak job market and car insurance costs. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Warren expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $166,970. The overall cost of living runs about 11% below the national average. Set against a $64,896 median income, cost of living beats 14% of cities.
Is Warren safe?
Warren is safer than 20% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $560 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Warren?
July highs average about 87 degrees, and January highs near 36 with lows near 21. That works out to about 81 pleasant days a year, more than 34% of cities.
Is Warren good for families?
Schools beat 4% of cities, crime safety beats 20%, and childcare runs $860 a month.
Is Warren good for remote workers?
Cost of living against local pay beats 14% of cities, though advertised internet speeds beat only 43% of cities. About 14% of workers already work from home.
Compare Warren with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Warren. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Warren 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.
Warren detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Warren: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Warren: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Warren: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Warren: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Warren 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.