Neighborhoods

A neighborhood page is the detailed view of a single town. URLs look like /neighborhoods/austin or /neighborhoods/newton — one page per covered town.

What's on the page

A short description of the town: what characterizes it, who it tends to suit, what the day-to-day feel is.
Four quick-stat cards: median home price, population, median income, and the town's overall RAAM score (averaged across the seven factors).
A factor breakdown with one row per factor — School Quality, Value for Money, Lot Size & Light, Home Age, Condition & Systems, Community Diversity, Commute Access — each shown as a 0–100 bar sorted from highest to lowest.
A call-to-action taking you into the Build flow if you haven't set up a profile yet.

How to reach one

There is no /neighborhoods index page. You reach a neighborhood three ways:

Drill down from a town row in Rankings or Markets.
Open a direct URL — /neighborhoods/<town> — someone shared with you.
Search for the town in your browser's address bar; Google indexes these pages as town guides.

How to read the factor scores

Each factor is independent. A town can have top-tier schools and a weak commute-access score at the same time — they don't average in your head, and the bar chart shows exactly where it lands on each. The overall score at the top is the straight arithmetic mean of the seven factors, so don't treat it as the final word — the breakdown is where the actual insight lives.

Score bands follow the site-wide 80 / 60 / 40 thresholds. An 82 on Lot Size & Light means this town offers substantially more outdoor space and sun than the comparison set; a 38 on Commute Access means the opposite.

A worked example

You're looking at Wellesley, MA. Overall score is strong. School Quality is near the top; Commute Access is comfortable; Value for Money is middling. The takeaway isn't "great town" — it's "great town if your priorities weight schools and commute heavily and you're comfortable paying for it." Swap those weights in your Custom RAAM profile and Wellesley will rank differently against the same towns.

What this page doesn't reflect

Your personal weights. The factor bars show the raw score for the town. Your Custom RAAM profile doesn't change the bars — it changes how those bars roll up into a personalized score on property pages. For a weighted view, score a specific property.
Every neighborhood in the town. Currently one page per town; sub- neighborhood granularity is on the roadmap.

Markets — the metro-level view above this
Rankings — ordered list of towns inside a metro
Methodology — what each factor measures