Best PlacesYellow Pine, AL Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Yellow Pine, 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.
Yellow Pine ranks 47,176th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on a stable housing market by a wide margin, and long commutes are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Yellow Pine
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.
Yellow Pine's strengths and weaknesses
Where Yellow Pine ranks high
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 95% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than 95% of towns
- Tree shadeBetter than 94% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than 93% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than 89% of towns
Where Yellow Pine ranks low
- Short commute46.3 minutes each way, better than only 2% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than only 6% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than only 6% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 7% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than only 8% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Yellow Pine
A household needs to earn about $31,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Yellow Pine home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $54,674, 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 Yellow Pine's effective rate of 0.30%, 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 Yellow Pine
Yellow Pine's age mix sits close to the national median, 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 Yellow Pine.
Who works in Yellow Pine, and how
Work in Yellow Pine centers on retail trade and mining & oil & gas. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 86%
- Work from home 13%
- Transit, walk, or bike 1%
Life in Yellow Pine
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Yellow Pine.
What the weather is like in Yellow Pine, month by month
Yellow Pine sees roughly 82 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 91 degrees. January highs sit near 60, with lows near 38. The comfortable stretch runs February through May, October, and November.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 60° | 48° | 38° |
| April | 78° | 65° | 54° |
| July | 91° | 80° | 73° |
| October | 81° | 67° | 56° |
Flying in and out of Yellow Pine
The nearest airport, Mobile Regional, is about 51 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Louis Armstrong New Orleans International, about 147 miles away.
The best schools in and around Yellow Pine
Schools across Yellow Pine average a C+, better than 44% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Chatom Elementary SchoolB− · 43% proficient
Top high schools
- Washington County High SchoolC · 33% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Yellow Pine school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Yellow Pine 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 Yellow Pine against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Yellow Pine
Is Yellow Pine a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Yellow Pine ranks 47,176th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on a stable housing market, low property taxes, and tree cover, and lowest on long commutes and crime. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Yellow Pine expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $126,616. The overall cost of living runs about 15% below the national average. Set against a $54,674 median income, cost of living beats 18% of towns.
Is Yellow Pine safe?
Yellow Pine is safer than 6% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $611 per resident a year.
Compare Yellow Pine with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Yellow Pine. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Yellow Pine 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.
Yellow Pine detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Yellow Pine: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Yellow Pine: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Yellow Pine: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Yellow Pine: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Yellow Pine 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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