Best PlacesWoodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville, MD Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. The coast is close, and the measures below put a number on how close. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville ranks 5,147th of 5,983 U.S. neighborhoods on the BestNeighborhood index. State infrastructure pulls hardest against it, while it scores best on tree cover.

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The best neighborhoods in Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville's strengths and weaknesses

Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville with other neighborhoods.

Where Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville ranks high

  • Tree shadeBetter than 89% of neighborhoods
  • Housing crash safetyBetter than 86% of neighborhoods
  • Heat safetyBetter than 80% of neighborhoods
  • Big-city accessBetter than 79% of neighborhoods
  • Air qualityBetter than 76% of neighborhoods

Where Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville ranks low

  • State infrastructureBetter than only 3% of neighborhoods
  • Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 5% of neighborhoods
  • Local economyBetter than only 6% of neighborhoods
  • Short commute33.1 minutes each way, better than only 10% of neighborhoods
  • BikingBetter than only 10% of neighborhoods

What it costs to buy a home in Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville

A household needs to earn about $98,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $86,007, so buying stretches a typical household.

Income to buy the median home
$98,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$2,296
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $363,600 home
Median rent
$1,786
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$1,854
Property tax$321
Homeowners insurance$121

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 Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville's effective rate of 1.06%, 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 7 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.

Cumulative cost of renting versus owning the median home, first 10 years. Illustrative estimate.

Who lives in Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville

Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville runs younger than the country, and households here run larger than average.

Median age
35
younger than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
12%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
3.2
above the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1827%
18 to 3424%
35 to 4920%
50 to 6418%
65 and older12%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville.


Who works in Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville, and how

Work in Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville centers on construction and health care & social. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
7%
below the national average
Unemployment
9.7%
above the national average
Job growth
+7.1%
/y 2019-2023, faster than the national pace

Largest industries

Construction20%
Health care & social12%
Admin & support services10%
Hospitality & food8%
Other services8%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 82%
  • Work from home 7%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 11%

Life in Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville

The coast is about 29 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville, which the map shows.

Places to eat and drink
29
restaurants, bars, and fast food, about 25.0 per 10,000 residents, more than 48% of neighborhoods
To the coast
29 min
drive to the nearest ocean beaches

What the weather is like in Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville, month by month

Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville sees roughly 71 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 90 degrees. January highs sit near 45, with lows near 28. The comfortable stretch runs April through June, September, and October.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January45°36°28°
April68°57°46°
July90°80°70°
October70°59°50°

Flying in and out of Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville

Ronald Reagan Washington Ntl sits about 10 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 12.0 million passengers in 2025, with 128 nonstop destinations.

Nearest airport
DCA
Ronald Reagan Washington Ntl, about 10 miles
Airport size
Large hub
28th-busiest in the US, 128 nonstop destinations
Average drive
14 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville

Schools across Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville average a D, better than 12% of neighborhoods.

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Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville 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 Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville against the other 5,982 neighborhoods.


Common questions about living in Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville

Is Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville ranks 5,147th of 5,983 neighborhoods. It scores highest on tree cover, a stable housing market, and heat safety, and lowest on state infrastructure and taxes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $363,600. The overall cost of living runs about 16% above the national average. Set against a $86,007 median income, cost of living beats 38% of neighborhoods.

Is Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville safe?

Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville is safer than 38% of neighborhoods. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $541 per resident a year.


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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville 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.

Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

Woodlawn Hayattsville, Hyattsville detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. 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.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  5. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  6. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  7. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  8. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  9. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  10. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  11. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  12. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.