Best PlacesWarwick, RI Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Warwick, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Distance to the water drives a lot of the difference between one part and the next. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Warwick ranks 1,231st of 2,098 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on health care access by a wide margin, and state finances rank lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Warwick
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.
The best areas in Warwick
The parts of Warwick, ranked by the BestNeighborhood standard score across every neighborhood, highest scoring first.
Pawtuxet, Gaspee Point & Coles
Wildes Corner
Apponaug Historic District & Nausauket
Spring Green, Norwood & Lakewood
Greenwood
Oakland Beach
Shawomet, Conimicut & Lockwood Corner
Warwick shows why a single number is not enough. Some neighborhoods score in the bottom 14% of the country and others in the top 8%. Pick the area first, then the home.
Warwick's strengths and weaknesses
Where Warwick ranks high
- Healthcare accessBetter than 91% of cities
- Air qualityBetter than 79% of cities
- Low vacancyBetter than 78% of cities
- TransitBetter than 77% of cities
- Crime safetyBetter than 74% of cities
Where Warwick ranks low
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 4% of cities
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 16% of cities
- Nice weatherabout 65 pleasant days a year, better than only 17% of cities
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 20% of cities
- School gradeC−, better than only 21% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in Warwick
A household needs to earn about $100,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Warwick home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is only a little above the area's median income of $92,035; the gap is small, which keeps homes within reach of local pay.
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 Warwick's effective rate of 1.28%, 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 Warwick
Warwick 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 Warwick.
Who works in Warwick, and how
Work in Warwick centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 84%
- Work from home 13%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Warwick
Warwick has more restaurants and bars per resident than 82% of cities and more parkland per resident than 93% of cities. The coast is about 28 minutes away. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Warwick and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Warwick, month by month
Warwick sees roughly 65 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 87 degrees. January highs sit near 43, with lows near 23. The comfortable stretch runs May through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 43° | 32° | 23° |
| April | 62° | 49° | 39° |
| July | 87° | 75° | 65° |
| October | 68° | 56° | 46° |
Flying in and out of Warwick
The nearest airport, Rhode Island Tf Green International, is about 0 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is General Edward Lawrence Logan International, about 49 miles away.
The best schools in and around Warwick
Schools across Warwick average a C−, better than 21% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- Greenwood SchoolB · 50% proficient
- Scott SchoolB · 50% proficient
- Sherman SchoolC− · 30% proficient
Top middle schools
- Barrington Middle SchoolA · 64% proficient
- Winman Middle SchoolC− · 30% proficient
- Warwick Veterans Middle SchoolD · 20% proficient
Top high schools
- East Greenwich HighA− · 65% proficient
- Barrington High SchoolA− · 64% proficient
- Toll Gate High SchoolB− · 42% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Warwick school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Warwick 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 Warwick against the other 2,097 cities.
Who Warwick suits
Families
Schools land around the 21st percentile and crime safety beats 74%.
Common questions about living in Warwick
Is Warwick a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Warwick ranks 1,231st of 2,098 cities. It scores highest on health care access, clean air, and few empty homes, and lowest on state finances and an overheated housing market. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Warwick expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $358,926. The overall cost of living runs about 2% above the national average. Set against a $92,035 median income, cost of living beats 46% of cities.
Is Warwick safe?
Yes, Warwick is safer than 74% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $190 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Warwick?
July highs average about 87 degrees, and January highs near 43 with lows near 23. That works out to about 65 pleasant days a year, more than 17% of cities.
What are the best neighborhoods in Warwick?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Pawtuxet, Gaspee Point & Coles, Wildes Corner, and Apponaug Historic District & Nausauket. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Compare Warwick with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Warwick. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Warwick 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.
Warwick detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Warwick: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Warwick: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Warwick: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Warwick: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Warwick 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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