Best Places10546, NY Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood inside ZIP code 10546, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Local pay runs high here, and housing takes the biggest bite out of it. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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10546 ranks 506th of 33,110 U.S. zip codes on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on high incomes by a wide margin, and property taxes are the weak spot.

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The best neighborhoods in 10546

Map of the best neighborhoods in the 10546 area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.

10546's strengths and weaknesses

#506Best US zip overall
Top 1%High incomes
Top 3%An educated workforce
Top 3%Health care access
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare 10546 with other zip codes.

Where 10546 ranks high

  • Household income$200,427 median, better than 99% of zip codes
  • Educational attainmentBetter than 99% of zip codes
  • Healthcare accessBetter than 98% of zip codes
  • Health outlookBetter than 98% of zip codes
  • Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 98% of zip codes

Where 10546 ranks low

  • Low property taxBetter than only 4% of zip codes
  • Short commute38.3 minutes each way, better than only 6% of zip codes
  • Cheap childcare$1,476 a month, better than only 7% of zip codes
  • Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 8% of zip codes
  • QuietBetter than only 17% of zip codes

What it costs to buy a home in 10546

A household needs to earn about $278,000 a year to comfortably buy the median 10546 home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $200,427, so buying stretches a typical household.

Income to buy the median home
$278,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$6,481
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $921,582 home
Median rent
$3,429
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$4,699
Property tax$1,475
Homeowners insurance$307

Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses 10546's effective rate of 1.92%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.

Renting versus buying

At today's prices and rents, renting stays cheaper than buying across the first 10 years here, so the case for buying rests on staying much longer or on prices rising faster than assumed. The chart tracks the running cost of each.

Cumulative cost of renting versus owning the median home, first 10 years. Illustrative estimate.

Who lives in 10546

10546 runs older than the country, though fewer residents are over 65 than the national share, and households here run larger than average.

Median age
44
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
13%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
3.0
above the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1823%
18 to 3421%
35 to 4919%
50 to 6423%
65 and older14%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for 10546.


Who works in 10546, and how

Work in 10546 centers on professional & technical and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and employment has held roughly flat.

Work from home
22%
above the national average
Unemployment
0.0%
below the national average
Job growth
−0.2%
/y 2019-2023, slower than the national pace

Largest industries

Professional & technical23%
Health care & social18%
Education12%
Finance & insurance8%
Construction8%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 68%
  • Work from home 22%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 10%

Life in 10546

The coast is about 22 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across 10546, which the map shows.

To the coast
22 min
drive to the nearest ocean beaches

What the weather is like in 10546, month by month

10546 sees roughly 70 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 86 degrees. January highs sit near 41, with lows near 24. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, and August through October.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January41°32°24°
April62°50°40°
July86°76°66°
October68°57°47°

Flying in and out of 10546

The nearest airport, Westchester County, is about 10 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Laguardia, about 29 miles away.

Nearest airport
HPN
Westchester County, about 10 miles
Airport size
Small hub
100th-busiest in the US, 46 nonstop destinations
Average drive
14 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around 10546

Schools across 10546 average an A, better than 98% of zip codes.

Top elementary schools

Top middle schools

Top high schools

Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every 10546 school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


10546 measure by measure

Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare 10546 against the other 33,109 zip codes.


Common questions about living in 10546

Is 10546 a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, 10546 ranks 506th of 33,110 zip codes. It scores highest on high incomes, an educated workforce, and health care access, and lowest on property taxes and long commutes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is 10546 expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $921,582. The overall cost of living runs about 27% above the national average. Set against a $200,427 median income, cost of living beats 98% of zip codes.

Is 10546 safe?

Yes, 10546 is safer than 85% of zip codes. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $203 per resident a year.


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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to 10546. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in 10546 represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.

10546 detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for 10546: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in 10546: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of 10546: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in 10546: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

10546 detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  5. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  6. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  7. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  8. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  9. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  10. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  11. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  12. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.