Best PlacesYancey Mills, VA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Yancey Mills, 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.
Yancey Mills ranks 5,487th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on an educated workforce by a wide margin, and childcare costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Yancey Mills
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.
Yancey Mills' strengths and weaknesses
Where Yancey Mills ranks high
- Educational attainmentBetter than 98% of towns
- School gradeA, better than 97% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than 95% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than 91% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than 90% of towns
Where Yancey Mills ranks low
- Cheap childcare$1,158 a month, better than only 14% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 16% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than only 19% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than only 22% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 26% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Yancey Mills
A household needs to earn about $149,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Yancey Mills home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $86,477, so buying stretches a typical household.
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 Yancey Mills' effective rate of 0.68%, 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 Yancey Mills
Yancey Mills 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 Yancey Mills.
Who works in Yancey Mills, and how
Work in Yancey Mills centers on education and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 72%
- Work from home 23%
- Transit, walk, or bike 4%
Life in Yancey Mills
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Yancey Mills.
What the weather is like in Yancey Mills, month by month
Yancey Mills sees roughly 108 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 85 degrees. January highs sit near 45, with lows near 30. The comfortable stretch runs April through June and August through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 45° | 36° | 30° |
| April | 68° | 57° | 48° |
| July | 85° | 77° | 69° |
| October | 69° | 60° | 53° |
Flying in and out of Yancey Mills
The nearest airport, Charlottesville-Albemarle, is about 13 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Richmond International, about 82 miles away.
The best schools in and around Yancey Mills
Schools across Yancey Mills average an A, better than 97% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Virginia L. Murray ElementaryA+ · 87% proficient
- Brownsville ElementaryA+ · 76% proficient
- Crozet ElementaryB+ · 53% proficient
Top middle schools
- Joseph T. Henley MiddleA+ · 84% proficient
Top high schools
- Western Albemarle HighA+ · 84% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Yancey Mills school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Yancey Mills 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 Yancey Mills against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Yancey Mills
Is Yancey Mills a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Yancey Mills ranks 5,487th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on an educated workforce, good schools, and health care access, and lowest on childcare costs and state finances. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Yancey Mills expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $577,907. The overall cost of living runs about 1% below the national average. Set against a $86,477 median income, cost of living beats 65% of towns.
Is Yancey Mills safe?
Yancey Mills is safer than 48% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $305 per resident a year.
Compare Yancey Mills with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Yancey Mills. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Yancey Mills 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.
Yancey Mills detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Yancey Mills: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Yancey Mills: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Yancey Mills: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Yancey Mills: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Yancey Mills 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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