Best Places11576, NY Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood inside ZIP code 11576, 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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11576 ranks 982nd of 33,110 U.S. zip codes on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on good schools by a wide margin, and long commutes are the weak spot.

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The best neighborhoods in 11576

Map of the best neighborhoods in the 11576 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.

11576's strengths and weaknesses

#982Best US zip overall
Top 1%Good schools
Top 1%An educated workforce
Top 1%High incomes
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare 11576 with other zip codes.

Where 11576 ranks high

  • School gradeA+, better than 99% of zip codes
  • Educational attainmentBetter than 99% of zip codes
  • Household income$195,368 median, better than 99% of zip codes
  • Big-city accessBetter than 98% of zip codes
  • Healthcare accessBetter than 98% of zip codes

Where 11576 ranks low

  • Short commute43.6 minutes each way, better than only 2% of zip codes
  • Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 6% of zip codes
  • Cheap childcare$1,476 a month, better than only 7% of zip codes
  • QuietBetter than only 9% of zip codes
  • Low property taxBetter than only 13% of zip codes

What it costs to buy a home in 11576

A household needs to earn about $377,000 a year to comfortably buy the median 11576 home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $195,368, so buying stretches a typical household.

Income to buy the median home
$377,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$8,786
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $1,318,673 home
Median rent
$2,465
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$6,724
Property tax$1,623
Homeowners insurance$440

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 11576's effective rate of 1.48%, 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 11576

11576 runs older than the country.

Median age
51
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
26%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.8
above the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1819%
18 to 3414%
35 to 4919%
50 to 6422%
65 and older26%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for 11576.


Who works in 11576, and how

Work in 11576 centers on professional & technical and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and employment has held roughly flat.

Work from home
20%
above the national average
Unemployment
3.2%
below the national average
Job growth
−0.3%
/y 2019-2023, slower than the national pace

Largest industries

Professional & technical18%
Health care & social17%
Retail trade11%
Education9%
Finance & insurance9%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 62%
  • Work from home 20%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 18%

Life in 11576

11576 has more parkland per resident than 96% of zip codes. The coast is about 10 minutes away. That concentrates in some parts of 11576 and thins out in others, which the map shows.

Places to eat and drink
61
restaurants, bars, and fast food, about 45.4 per 10,000 residents, more than 64% of zip codes
Parkland
254 acres
about 18.9 acres per 1,000 residents, more than 96% of zip codes
To the coast
10 min
drive to the nearest ocean beaches

What the weather is like in 11576, month by month

11576 sees roughly 71 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 90 degrees. January highs sit near 44, with lows near 29. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, September, and October.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January44°36°29°
April65°53°45°
July90°80°72°
October70°61°54°

Flying in and out of 11576

Laguardia sits about 12 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 16.3 million passengers in 2025, with 118 nonstop destinations.

Nearest airport
LGA
Laguardia, about 12 miles
Airport size
Large hub
19th-busiest in the US, 118 nonstop destinations
Average drive
17 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around 11576

Schools across 11576 average an A+, better than 99% of zip codes.

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Top high schools

Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every 11576 school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


11576 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 11576 against the other 33,109 zip codes.


Common questions about living in 11576

Is 11576 a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, 11576 ranks 982nd of 33,110 zip codes. It scores highest on good schools, an educated workforce, and high incomes, and lowest on long commutes and car insurance costs. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is 11576 expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $1,318,673. The overall cost of living runs about 48% above the national average. Set against a $195,368 median income, cost of living beats 95% of zip codes.

Is 11576 safe?

Yes, 11576 is safer than 62% of zip codes. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $278 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 11576. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in 11576 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.

11576 detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for 11576: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in 11576: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of 11576: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in 11576: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

11576 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.