hearthmap: Where to Live

100+ data points. Every neighborhood in America. One map.

hearthmap is a free, data-only map for deciding where to live in the United States. No listings, no agents, no spam. Just the facts about a place, shaded across the whole country, so you can see at a glance where the good schools, low crime, affordable homes, and clean air actually are.

EXPLORE
Shade the map by any of 100 data points and watch the whole country light up. Zoom from states down to your exact block group and the map redraws at the right level of detail automatically.

FILTER
Hide everywhere that does not fit. Show only the places with homes under your budget, a commute under 30 minutes, a school rating above your bar, or any combination you set.

RANK
Tell hearthmap what matters to you and how much it matters. It scores every region in the country by how well it fits, then colors the strongest matches so your next home rises to the top.

WHAT YOU CAN MAP
- Housing: typical home value, asking price, rent, total monthly payment (PITI), property tax rate, days on market, and a one-year home value forecast
- Cost of living: median household income, childcare cost, homeowners insurance, poverty rate
- Schools: district ratings, math and reading proficiency, SAT scores, graduation rates, spending per student
- Safety: violent crime and property crime rates
- Environment: air quality, drinking water, wildfire, flood, hurricane, tornado, heat, and drought risk, radon, noise, temperature, humidity, rainfall, and sunny days
- Demographics: population, density, growth, age mix, household size, families with kids, education levels
- Lifestyle: walkability, transit, parks, restaurants, coffee shops, grocery stores, gyms, and libraries
- Plus commute times, employment, political lean, life expectancy, and more

SIX LEVELS OF DETAIL
See any metric at state, county, town, ZIP code, census tract, and block group resolution. Compare a whole state at a glance, or drill all the way down to a single block.

DATA YOU CAN TRUST
Every number comes from a named public source: the U.S. Census Bureau, the FBI, the Department of Education, FEMA, the EPA, NOAA, the CDC, Zillow Research, Redfin, and more. Tap any region to see the value and where it came from.

FREE AND PRIVATE
hearthmap is completely free. It is a research tool, not a real estate brokerage: it does not list homes, broker deals, or sell your data. Create a free account to save the places and searches you care about, or just open the map and start exploring.

Where should you live? Find out with data.