Best PlacesYonges Island, SC Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Yonges Island, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Local pay runs high here, and housing takes the biggest bite out of it. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Yonges Island ranks 27,735th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on high incomes by a wide margin, and long commutes are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Yonges Island
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.
Yonges Island's strengths and weaknesses
Where Yonges Island ranks high
- Household income$132,836 median, better than 95% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 94% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than 92% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than 90% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 88% of towns
Where Yonges Island ranks low
- Short commute52.7 minutes each way, better than only 1% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 1% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 2% of towns
- BikingBetter than only 3% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than only 9% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Yonges Island
A household needs to earn about $163,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Yonges Island home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $132,836, 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 Yonges Island's effective rate of 0.52%, 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 Yonges Island
Yonges Island's age mix sits close to the national median.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Yonges Island.
Who works in Yonges Island, and how
Work in Yonges Island centers on professional & technical and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 63%
- Work from home 33%
- Transit, walk, or bike 4%
Life in Yonges Island
The coast is about 38 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Yonges Island, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Yonges Island, month by month
Yonges Island sees roughly 105 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 90 degrees. January highs sit near 60, with lows near 42. The comfortable stretch runs February through May, October, and November.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 60° | 50° | 42° |
| April | 76° | 66° | 58° |
| July | 90° | 82° | 76° |
| October | 79° | 69° | 62° |
Flying in and out of Yonges Island
Charleston AFB/International sits about 18 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 3.2 million passengers in 2025, with 95 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Yonges Island
Schools across Yonges Island average a C+, better than 57% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Montessori Community SchoolA · 70% proficient
- Edith L. Frierson ElementaryF · 10% proficient
Top middle schools
- Haut Gap MiddleB− · 40% proficient
Top high schools
- St. Johns HighC+ · 40% proficient
- Baptist Hill HighD− · 15% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Yonges Island school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Yonges Island 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 Yonges Island against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Yonges Island
Is Yonges Island a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Yonges Island ranks 27,735th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on high incomes, an educated workforce, and fast internet, and lowest on long commutes and an overheated housing market. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Yonges Island expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $646,651. The overall cost of living runs about 20% above the national average. Set against a $132,836 median income, cost of living beats 88% of towns.
Is Yonges Island safe?
Yonges Island is safer than 41% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $403 per resident a year.
Compare Yonges Island with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Yonges Island. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Yonges Island 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.
Yonges Island detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Yonges Island: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Yonges Island: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Yonges Island: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Yonges Island: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Yonges Island 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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