Best PlacesWoodstock, TN Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Woodstock, 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.

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Woodstock ranks 34,041st of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on state finances by a wide margin, and disaster risk is the weak spot.

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The best neighborhoods in Woodstock

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Woodstock area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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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.

Woodstock's strengths and weaknesses

Top 5%State finances
Top 10%Fast internet
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Woodstock with other towns.

Where Woodstock ranks high

  • State fiscal healthBetter than 96% of towns
  • Internet speedBetter than 92% of towns
  • Local economyBetter than 86% of towns
  • Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 84% of towns
  • State infrastructureBetter than 83% of towns

Where Woodstock ranks low

  • Disaster safetyBetter than only 11% of towns
  • Crime safetyBetter than only 15% of towns
  • Housing crash safetyBetter than only 17% of towns
  • School gradeC−, better than only 19% of towns
  • WalkabilityBetter than only 19% of towns

What it costs to buy a home in Woodstock

A household needs to earn about $81,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Woodstock home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $66,211, so buying stretches a typical household.

Income to buy the median home
$81,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$1,889
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $312,844 home
Median rent
$1,820
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$1,595
Property tax$189
Homeowners insurance$104

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 Woodstock's effective rate of 0.73%, 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.

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

Who lives in Woodstock

Woodstock runs younger than the country, though it still carries a larger-than-average share of residents over 65, and households here run larger than average.

Median age
34
younger than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
27%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
3.2
above the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1833%
18 to 3414%
35 to 4913%
50 to 6412%
65 and older27%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Woodstock.


Who works in Woodstock, and how

Work in Woodstock centers on admin & support services and retail trade. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
6%
below the national average
Unemployment
0.0%
below the national average
Job growth
+5.7%
/y 2019-2023, faster than the national pace

Largest industries

Admin & support services23%
Retail trade21%
Health care & social18%
Construction9%
Manufacturing8%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 92%
  • Work from home 6%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 1%

Life in Woodstock

The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Woodstock.


What the weather is like in Woodstock, month by month

Woodstock sees roughly 76 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 91 degrees. January highs sit near 50, with lows near 34. The comfortable stretch runs March through May, 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
January50°41°34°
April72°62°52°
July91°82°73°
October75°64°54°

Flying in and out of Woodstock

Memphis International sits about 18 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 2.4 million passengers in 2025, with 78 nonstop destinations.

Nearest airport
MEM
Memphis International, about 18 miles
Airport size
Medium hub
67th-busiest in the US, 78 nonstop destinations
Average drive
25 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Woodstock

Schools across Woodstock average a C−, better than 19% of towns.

Top elementary schools

Top middle schools

Top high schools

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


Woodstock 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 Woodstock against the other 50,332 towns.


Common questions about living in Woodstock

Is Woodstock a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Woodstock ranks 34,041st of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on state finances, fast internet, and a strong job market, and lowest on disaster risk and crime. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Woodstock expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $312,844. The overall cost of living runs about 6% below the national average. Set against a $66,211 median income, cost of living beats 21% of towns.

Is Woodstock safe?

Woodstock is safer than 15% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $628 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 Woodstock. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Woodstock 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.

Woodstock detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

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

Woodstock 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.