What is Staunton-Stuarts Draft's Life Score?

Staunton-Stuarts Draft scores 56.7/100 (grade B+), rank #89 of 387. Signature composite at the 77th percentile; stamps UPPER · SAFE-LED · cost CHEAP · wages MID.

What pulls Staunton-Stuarts Draft up or down?

Strongest: safety (87/100). Weakest: schools (26/100). Profile mark SAFE-LED; dimension gap 61.

How current is this data?

Federal releases current as of August 2026 (BEA, BLS, HUD, FBI, NCES, DOL, EPA). Cadence varies by series; see methodology.

Metro Life Score

Staunton-Stuarts Draft, VA

Top-quartile composite Life Score — grade B+, 77th percentile of the national corpus.

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56.7
Life Score / 100: B+
Grade (curved): #89
of 387 metros: 77%
composite percentile

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Data updated August 2026

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The verdict

Staunton-Stuarts Draft is top-quartile composite Life Score — #89 of 387 (56.7/100, grade B+, 77th percentile). Carried by safety at 87/100; held back most by schools at 26/100.

77th
composite percentile: #89
of 387 peers: 68th
cost dimension percentile: 44th
wages dimension percentile

Life Score shape · UPPER · SAFE-LED · signature composite

Staunton-Stuarts Draft: top-third composite Life Score

Staunton-Stuarts Draft clears the top third of US metros on composite Life Score (#89 of 387, 56.7/100, grade B+, 77th percentile). Stamps UPPER · SAFE-LED; cost CHEAP (68th) · wages MID (44th). Safety at 87/100 carries the lead; Schools (26/100) is the residual gap. According to PlainCompare's federal Life Score corpus ranking, Staunton-Stuarts Draft, VA ranks #89 of 387 metros by composite Life Score (highest = #1) and #122 of 387 by cost-of-living dimension score (highest = #1). Methodology.

BEA RPP 91.1 (rent-RPP 68.2). BLS median salary $63,276, 42,170 jobs (Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand, Retail Salespersons, Registered Nurses). HUD 2BR FMR $1,261/mo (studio $1,088).

FBI UCR (VA): 223 violent, 1590 property/100K. NCES: 13.7:1 ratio, 0.4% charter. DOL infant childcare $10,445/yr. EPA: 35 Superfund sites (VA).

Where Staunton-Stuarts Draft sits among all US metros

Composite Life Score vs the national field

57 Top 23% higher than 77% of 387 US metros

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Source PlainCompare composite of BEA, BLS, HUD, FBI, NCES, DOL, EPA data · August 2026

How the 56.7 is built

Staunton-Stuarts Draft's Life Score, decomposed

Cost of Living 13.7 (24%) Wages 8.9 (16%) Rent 8.3 (15%) Safety 13.1 (23%) Schools 2.6 (5%) Childcare 5.3 (9%) Environment 4.8 (9%)

Dimension detail

How Staunton-Stuarts Draft scores, dimension by dimension

Score Breakdown

Dimension Scores

Cost of Living 69/100 (20%) Average

Wages 44/100 (20%) Average

Rent 55/100 (15%) Average

Safety 87/100 (15%) Above average

Schools 26/100 (10%) Average

Childcare 53/100 (10%) Average

Environment 48/100 (10%) Average

Key Data Points

91.1

Cost Index (RPP)

$63,276

Avg Median Salary

$1,261

2BR Fair Market Rent

223

Violent Crime/100K (VA)

13.7:1

Student-Teacher Ratio

$10,445

Infant Childcare/yr (VA)

Superfund Sites (VA)

42,170

Total Employment

Geography used: crime, schools, childcare, and environment cards above are VA state-level when metro-specific feeds are unavailable, see the scope key at the top of this page.

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Ranking Context

Staunton-Stuarts Draft outranks 77% of U.S. metros.

Rank	Metro	Score	Grade
#86	Casper, WY	56.8	B+
#87	Lynchburg, VA	56.9	B+
#88	Oklahoma City, OK	57.0	B+
#89	Staunton-Stuarts Draft, VA	56.7	B+
#90	Mansfield, OH	56.7	B+
#91	Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC	56.6	B+
#92	Minot, ND	56.4	B+

Quality vs. Affordability

Staunton-Stuarts Draft, VA's quality rank (top 23% highest-quality) and affordability rank (top 32% most affordable) sit close together -- an unusually proportionate metro where overall quality and cost-of-living move together.

Staunton-Stuarts Draft, VA (highlighted) among its 12 nearest composite-Life-Score peers, out of 387 tracked metros nationally. Crosshairs mark this peer neighborhood's own median composite score and cost-of-living score. Cost-of-living score is already inverted so higher = more affordable.

VA Metro Scores

Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA B+ 57.6 Lynchburg, VA B+ 56.9 Roanoke, VA B+ 55.2 Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC B 53.9 Richmond, VA B- 51.2 Harrisonburg, VA B- 49.7

Read with Staunton-Stuarts Draft

Nearest composite peers and cost poles for Staunton-Stuarts Draft (UPPER · SAFE-LED · CHEAP/MID), replacing the fixed Explore/Guides strip.

Mansfield, OH

ABS(composite) peer at 56.7 (Δ 0.0 vs this metro); higher Life Score · grade B+ vs this page's UPPER · SAFE-LED · CHEAP/MID.

Casper, WY

ABS(composite) peer at 56.8 (Δ 0.1 vs this metro); higher Life Score · grade B+ vs this page's UPPER · SAFE-LED · CHEAP/MID.

Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC

ABS(composite) peer at 56.6 (Δ 0.1 vs this metro); lower Life Score · grade B+ vs this page's UPPER · SAFE-LED · CHEAP/MID.

Lynchburg, VA

ABS(composite) peer at 56.9 (Δ 0.2 vs this metro); higher Life Score · grade B+ vs this page's UPPER · SAFE-LED · CHEAP/MID.

Killeen-Temple, TX (cost pole)

ABS(cost_score) orthogonal peer at 68/100 (Δ 0); cost stamp CHEAP vs this metro's CHEAP.

Spartanburg, SC (cost pole)

ABS(cost_score) orthogonal peer at 69/100 (Δ 0); cost stamp CHEAP vs this metro's CHEAP.

Staunton-Stuarts Draft, VA relocation guide

Stamp-branched guide for UPPER · SAFE-LED · CHEAP/MID - how to read federal Life Score inputs before a move.

Using Staunton-Stuarts Draft's top-third Life Score

Staunton-Stuarts Draft scores 56.7/100 overall, but Safety (87.3) and Schools (25.9) sit 61.4 points apart, so decide which of the two matters more to you before leaning on the total.

Safety is the strongest of Staunton-Stuarts Draft's seven dimensions (weighted 15% in the composite); if it is your priority, this is where the metro earns its rank. See all seven dimensions
Schools is the weakest (weighted 10% in the composite); if it is a dealbreaker, weigh it before the ranking does. Rank metros on the composite
Blacksburg is the nearest comparison this page can offer; put the two side by side on the same seven dimensions. Compare with Blacksburg

A high composite is a weighted blend; it does not mean every dimension is strong.

Data from BEA, HUD, FBI UCR, BLS OES, NCES, DOL, and EPA. Not affiliated with the U.S. Government.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Staunton-Stuarts Draft Life Score 56.7/100 · signature composite · retrieved and formatted by PlainCompare

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

All federal data sources used on this page

U.S. Census Bureau ACS - multi-dimension demographic + housing + income aggregates for cross-area comparison. census.gov/programs-surveys/acs
BEA Regional Economic Accounts - GDP, personal income, employment by state and metro. bea.gov/data/regional
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) - wage estimates for comparable-area indexing. bls.gov/oes
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) - crime statistics for safety-score component. fbi.gov/ucr
NCES Common Core of Data - public-school quality indicators by area. nces.ed.gov/ccd
EPA AirNow + Air Quality System (AQS) - air-quality measurements by area. epa.gov/outdoor-air-quality-data
HUD Fair Market Rents (FMR) - county and metro housing-cost indicators. huduser.gov/datasets/fmr