Best PlacesWoburn, IL Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Woburn, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. This page is for people who live here or already know they want to. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Woburn ranks 25,930th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on fast internet by a wide margin, and taxes are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Woburn
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.
Woburn's strengths and weaknesses
Where Woburn ranks high
- Internet speedBetter than 97% of towns
- Short commute19.5 minutes each way, better than 89% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 83% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 81% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 81% of towns
Where Woburn ranks low
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 3% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 4% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 8% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 9% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 61 pleasant days a year, better than only 10% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Woburn
A household needs to earn about $61,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Woburn home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $81,215, 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 Woburn's effective rate of 1.63%, 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 Woburn
Woburn 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 Woburn.
Who works in Woburn, and how
Work in Woburn centers on hospitality & food and education. Unemployment is low, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 81%
- Work from home 10%
- Transit, walk, or bike 9%
Life in Woburn
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Woburn.
What the weather is like in Woburn, month by month
Woburn sees roughly 61 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 85 degrees. January highs sit near 37, with lows near 23. The comfortable stretch runs May through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 37° | 29° | 23° |
| April | 65° | 53° | 44° |
| July | 85° | 75° | 67° |
| October | 69° | 56° | 46° |
Flying in and out of Woburn
The nearest airport, Scott AFB/Midamerica St Louis, is about 37 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is St Louis Lambert International, about 55 miles away.
The best schools in and around Woburn
Schools across Woburn average a D+, better than 11% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Mulberry Grove Elem SchoolD · 20% proficient
Top middle schools
- Greenville Jr High SchoolD+ · 25% proficient
- Mulberry Grove Jr High SchoolD− · 13% proficient
Top high schools
- Bond Cty Comm Unit 2 High SchoolC− · 28% proficient
- Mulberry Grove Sr High SchoolF · 10% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Woburn school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Woburn 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 Woburn against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Woburn
Is Woburn a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Woburn ranks 25,930th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on fast internet, short commutes, and an educated workforce, and lowest on taxes and state finances. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Woburn expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $210,973. The overall cost of living runs about 22% below the national average. Set against a $81,215 median income, cost of living beats 81% of towns.
Is Woburn safe?
Woburn is safer than 31% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $292 per resident a year.
Compare Woburn with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Woburn. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Woburn 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.
Woburn detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Woburn: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Woburn: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Woburn: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Woburn: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Woburn 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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