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. Phrae publishes almost no structured housing data and its advertised rental market runs to about 25 buildings across two portals that share advertisers (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. It's a transparent comparison starting point, not investment advice — weight the factors that matter to you.
Phrae areas by overall score
| # | Area | Score | Value | Infrastructure & services | Transport access (road & rail) | Rental depth | Family suitability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nai Wiang — the walled old city The moat-and-rampart old town, Khum Chao Luang and Vongburi House, and the Soi Phrae Thong 4 apartment cluster | 78 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 7 |
| 2 | Na Chak & the Yantrakitkoson bypass — hospitals & the Cho Hae road Phrae Hospital on Cho Hae Road, the province's two non-government hospitals, Phrae Airport and the road out to Wat Phra That Cho Hae | 73 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 8 |
| 3 | Den Chai & Sung Men — the railway and the teak-furniture south Den Chai station — the province's only railway and the starting point of the Chiang Rai line — plus Wat Suthon and Ban Don Mun's woodworking | 64 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 6 |
| 4 | Thung Hong & Rong Kwang — the indigo villages & the Maejo campus Ban Thung Hong's mo hom indigo weaving just north of town, and Maejo University's Phrae campus in Rong Kwang | 64 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 7 |
| 5 | Song, Long & Wang Chin — the upland west and the Yom valley north Mae Yom and Wiang Kosai national parks, the Phra That Phra Lo chedi at Ban Klang and the province's most remote districts | 54 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 5 |
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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 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 or financial advice. Ratings are editorial estimates that change as areas evolve. Hero photo via Pexels.
