Best PlacesWhitneyville, ME Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Whitneyville, 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.
Whitneyville ranks 27,422nd of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on cheap car insurance by a wide margin, and distance from a big city ranks lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Whitneyville
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.
Whitneyville's strengths and weaknesses
Where Whitneyville ranks high
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 98% of towns
- Short commute14.9 minutes each way, better than 97% of towns
- School gradeA+, better than 97% of towns
- Tree shadeBetter than 94% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than 94% of towns
Where Whitneyville ranks low
- Big-city accessBetter than only 3% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 4% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 9% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than only 17% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than only 18% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Whitneyville
A household needs to earn about $48,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Whitneyville home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $54,642, 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 Whitneyville's effective rate of 1.21%, 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 5 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Whitneyville
Whitneyville 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 Whitneyville.
Who works in Whitneyville, and how
Work in Whitneyville centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 89%
- Work from home 8%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Whitneyville
The coast is about 23 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Whitneyville, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Whitneyville, month by month
Whitneyville sees roughly 76 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 79 degrees. January highs sit near 35, with lows near 16. The comfortable stretch runs June through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 35° | 25° | 16° |
| April | 53° | 42° | 32° |
| July | 79° | 67° | 58° |
| October | 61° | 51° | 41° |
Flying in and out of Whitneyville
The nearest airport, Hancock County/Bar Harbor, is about 46 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is General Edward Lawrence Logan International, about 239 miles away.
The best schools in and around Whitneyville
Schools across Whitneyville average an A+, better than 97% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Jonesboro Elementary SchoolA+ · 80% proficient
- Rose M Gaffney SchoolA+ · 80% proficient
Top high schools
- Machias Memorial High SchoolA · 68% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Whitneyville school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Whitneyville 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 Whitneyville against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Whitneyville
Is Whitneyville a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Whitneyville ranks 27,422nd of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on cheap car insurance, short commutes, and good schools, and lowest on distance from a big city 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 Whitneyville expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $173,479. The overall cost of living runs about 14% below the national average. Set against a $54,642 median income, cost of living beats 17% of towns.
Is Whitneyville safe?
Whitneyville is safer than 40% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $344 per resident a year.
Compare Whitneyville with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Whitneyville. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Whitneyville 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.
Whitneyville detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Whitneyville: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Whitneyville: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Whitneyville: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Whitneyville: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Whitneyville 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.