How it's scored: each area is rated 1–10 on eight factors — value, infrastructure & services, culture & heritage, quiet, transport access, rental depth, walkability and family suitability — and the BAANLYY Area Score is their average on a 0–100 scale. Pattani publishes very little structured housing data: its entire advertised long-stay market on the one portal we could bound to it is sixteen buildings, every one of them in Mueang Pattani district and every one tagged to the university (see the rental market guide for exactly what we could and could not verify), so these scores are deliberately conservative and directional rather than precise. Security is deliberately not one of the eight factors — it is set out unscored and in full on the hub, because a 1-to-10 rating would imply a precision nobody has. It's a transparent comparison starting point, not investment or security advice — weight the factors that matter to you.
Pattani areas by overall score
| # | Area | Score | Value | Infrastructure & services | Transport access (road & rail) | Rental depth | Family suitability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pattani town centre — Sabarang, Anoru & Chabang Tiko The provincial seat: the general hospital on Nong Chik Road about 200 metres from the provincial hall, the Pattani Central Mosque, the Chinese-Peranakan shophouse street of the old town at Anoru, the Lim Ko Niao shrine and the province's only walkable centre | 68 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 6 |
| 2 | Rusamilae — the university side of the capital Tambon Rusamilae on Charoenpradit Road: Prince of Songkla University's Pattani campus, the oldest university campus in southern Thailand, the province's only private hospital, the provincial immigration office and effectively the whole of the advertised rental market | 68 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 7 |
| 3 | Khok Pho & Mae Lan — the railway districts The inland southwest, and the only part of the province the Southern Line touches: four stations including the class 1 one confusingly named Pattani, the 300-year-old Wat Chang Hai holding the ashes of Luang Pu Thuat, and the Sai Khao waterfall | 58 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 5 |
| 4 | Sai Buri, Mai Kaen & Kapho — the southern coast The far southeast toward the Narathiwat line: Sai Buri was one of the seven mueang the old Patani region was broken into and is still the second town of the province, with the smaller inland districts of Mai Kaen and Kapho behind it | 56 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 5 |
| 5 | Yaring & the bay — Krue Se, Tanyong Lulo & Laem Tachi The eastern arm of Pattani Bay: the unfinished brick Krue Se Mosque from the reign of King Naresuan, the fishing settlements and painted kolae boats of the bay shore, and the Laem Tachi sand spit that closes the bay off from the Gulf | 56 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 5 |
| 6 | Yarang, Mayo & Thung Yang Daeng — the inland districts The agricultural interior up the Pattani River: Yarang Ancient City, the archaeological ground of the pre-sultanate port polity, and the rubber and orchard country running back toward the Yala border | 55 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 7 | Nong Chik — the western district and the model city West of the capital toward Songkhla: the airfield at Bo Thong that is a Royal Thai Air Force facility rather than a passenger airport, and the district named as one of three pilot model cities in the Triangle of Stability, Prosperity and Sustainability project | 54 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| 8 | Panare — the open Gulf coast Northeast of the bay on the open sea: Talo Kapo beach and the fishing villages of a coastline the province measures at 170 kilometres, one of the seven districts the Emergency Decree no longer covers | 53 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
Top area by factor
Frequently asked
What is the BAANLYY Pattani Area Score?The BAANLYY Area Score is a transparent 0–100 rating for each of Pattani's eight core living areas, which between them cover all twelve of its districts. It's the average of eight lived-experience factors — value, infrastructure & services, culture & heritage, quiet, transport access, rental depth, walkability and family suitability — each scored out of 10 from BAANLYY's Pattani dataset, then converted to a 100-point scale. Pattani publishes very little structured housing data: the entire advertised long-stay market we could bound to it was sixteen buildings on a single portal, every one of them in one district. So these scores are conservative editorial estimates derived from each area's real geography, institutions and role, not a precise benchmark. It's a starting point for comparison, not investment advice.
Does the Area Score include the security situation?Not as a separate factor, and we want to be explicit about that rather than have you infer it. Scoring a province's security on a 1-to-10 scale would imply a precision nobody has, and it would collapse a live, district-varying, politically contested situation into a number that would be wrong the week after we published it. Instead we set it out in full and unscored on the hub and the getting-around guide: the Emergency Decree extended from 20 July to 19 October 2026 covering Mueang Pattani, Khok Pho, Nong Chik, Sai Buri and Yarang while exempting Yaring, Panare, Mayo, Mai Kaen, Thung Yang Daeng, Kapho and Mae Lan; standing travel advice from the US (exercise increased caution), the UK (against all but essential travel) and Australia (reconsider your need to travel); and SBPAC's published incident data, which records 10,116 certified incidents and 5,999 deaths across the three southern border provinces from January 2004 to December 2025 on a clearly declining trend — 1,407 incidents in 2007, 57 in 2020, 150 in 2025. Read that before you read these scores, and read your own government's current advisory before either.
Which Pattani area scores highest?On the current overall score, Pattani town centre — Sabarang, Anoru & Chabang Tiko leads with a BAANLYY Area Score of 68, followed by Rusamilae — the university side of the capital (68) and Khok Pho & Mae Lan — the railway districts (58). Scores balance all eight factors — your personal best area depends on whether you weigh the university quarter that holds the private hospital, the immigration office and every advertised rental in the province; the walkable old town with the general hospital, the Central Mosque and the Chinese-Peranakan shophouses; the bay shore with Krue Se Mosque and the kolae fishing fleet; the two districts the railway actually reaches; the open Gulf coast; or the agricultural interior around the ancient city.
Why is rental depth scored so low everywhere except Rusamilae?Because it is measured, not estimated, and the measurement is stark. RentHub's Pattani province index displayed sixteen advertised long-stay buildings in August 2026 and its own district facet read Muang Pattani (15) — no other district appeared at all, so eleven of the province's twelve districts advertise nothing. Its landmark facets narrow it further: Prince of Songkla University Pattani Campus (16), Pattani Community College (14), Pattani Hospital (12), Thanyarak Pattani Hospital (9). Every listing in the province is tagged to the university. That is why Rusamilae scores 6 on rental depth, the town centre 4, and every other area 1 — and the 1 rather than 0 is us being generous to an off-portal market that certainly exists, because in a province where roughly 88 per cent of the population is Muslim a great deal of long-stay housing moves through mosque and family networks that no portal indexes.
Should I read anything into the fact that the amenity facets all read zero?Very little, and we would rather say so than dress it up. RentHub's filter panel for Pattani showed 0 against every amenity — lift, air conditioner, fitness, pets. But the denominator is sixteen listings, and at that scale a zero facet is far more likely to mean the landlords never filled in the tick-boxes than that no apartment in a province of twelve districts has an air conditioner in the tropical south. We publish the observation with its denominator attached and draw no conclusion from it. This matters because BAANLYY does use zero-facet evidence elsewhere — but only at a scale where the absence is genuinely informative.
Sources & References
The BAANLYY Area Score itself is BAANLYY's proprietary editorial dataset; the official sources above provide the underlying tourism and demographic context. Ratings are editorial estimates that change as areas evolve — not investment, legal, security or financial advice.
The BAANLYY Area Score is a proprietary, transparent composite of BAANLYY's own area ratings, provided for general comparison only — not investment, legal, security or financial advice. Ratings are editorial estimates that change as areas evolve. Hero photo via Pexels.
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Last updated 20 August 2026 · Last reviewed 20 August 2026