Boiling Spring Lakes ranks #5 in North Carolina for conserved land
Boiling Spring Lakes is ranked on 34 lists against the 297 North Carolina towns with 2,500+ residents. It makes the top 10 on 1 and the top quarter on 5.
The lists Boiling Spring Lakes does best on
Each list ranks every NC town with 2,500+ residents. Tap one to see the whole list with Boiling Spring Lakes marked.
Boiling Spring Lakes lands in the top half on 14 of 22 lists
Each dot is Boiling Spring Lakes’s spot on one list: the left end is #1 in NC, the right end is last. Areas where Boiling Spring Lakes does best come first.
Milder winters than 93% of North Carolina
Not better or worse, just Boiling Spring Lakes’s character, from the lists where neither end is the “good” one. The most distinctive come first.
2 spots from the top 3 for conserved land
Lists where Boiling Spring Lakes sits just outside a milestone, and what it would take to get in.
Boiling Spring Lakes out-ranks 0 of its 1 ranked neighbors
Head to head on the lists where both towns are ranked: a point for each list where one town places higher. Tap a town for its own rankings.
Where Boiling Spring Lakes lands in every NC ranking
38 lists from Census, school, health, library, crime, climate and land data. Tap any list to see every town on it.
Outdoors
Most conserved land#1 Spring Lake · 81.9%
#5
Most trails#1 Carrboro · 4.5 mi / sq mi
#34
Most walkable#1 Carolina Beach · 134 / sq mi
#271 
Housing
Vacation-home towns#1 Emerald Isle · 68.9%
#27
Most new homes#1 Wendell · 77.4 per 1,000
#22
Fastest-rising home prices#1 Henderson · +129.4%
#231
Housing hasn't kept up#1 Tabor City · 19.2 per home
#43 Health
Healthiest#1 Morrisville · 100 / 100
#131
Lowest obesity#1 Morrisville · 22%
#106
Fewest smokers#1 Morrisville · 7%
#154
Most active#1 Wrightsville Beach · 13%
#98
S
Fewest uninsured#1 St. James · 4%
#62
Lowest depression#1 Morrisville · 19%
#258
Closest to a top hospital#1 Winston-Salem · 0.0 mi
#119 
Getting around
Shortest commute#1 Jamestown · 13.4 min
#123 
Cost of living
Most affordable#1 La Grange · 1.2 yrs
#173
Cheapest rent#1 Edenton · $388/mo
#210
E
Lowest property tax#1 Emma · $518/yr
#144
Rent easiest to afford#1 Morrisville · 24.8%
The number on the right is Boiling Spring Lakes’s spot. All of North Carolina’s rankings, with the map → · National lists and other states: all rankings.
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- 2,500+ residents. Census estimates for smaller towns carry margins of error too wide to rank fairly, so they sit out every NC list.
- One town, one row. A city that is both a city and a town in Census data, or a village inside a town, is counted once.
- Ties share a rank. Towns on one weather station, one school district or one CDC estimate share a figure, so they share a spot (T).
- No “worst” lists. Lists rank toward the good end, and share cards are made only for the top half. Age, snow and the like are character, not grades.
U.S. Census Bureau (American Community Survey 5-year, 2010 and 2020 censuses, Building Permits Survey), U.S. Department of Education, FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, CDC PLACES, Medicare Care Compare, IMLS Public Libraries Survey, FHFA House Price Index, NOAA U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020, USGS PAD-US and OpenStreetMap. Each list explains its own method.