Best Places13084, NY Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood inside ZIP code 13084, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Several measures below read low, and the ranked lists name which ones. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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13084 ranks 6,789th of 33,110 U.S. zip codes on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on health care access by a wide margin, and property taxes are the weak spot.

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The best neighborhoods in 13084

Map of the best neighborhoods in the 13084 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.

13084's strengths and weaknesses

Top 3%Health care access
Top 5%Low disaster risk
Top 10%Few empty homes
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare 13084 with other zip codes.

Where 13084 ranks high

  • Healthcare accessBetter than 97% of zip codes
  • Disaster safetyBetter than 95% of zip codes
  • Low vacancyBetter than 95% of zip codes
  • Crime safetyBetter than 94% of zip codes
  • Air qualityBetter than 91% of zip codes

Where 13084 ranks low

  • Low property taxBetter than only 3% of zip codes
  • Cheap childcare$1,317 a month, better than only 14% of zip codes
  • State infrastructureBetter than only 18% of zip codes
  • Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 18% of zip codes
  • Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 18% of zip codes

What it costs to buy a home in 13084

A household needs to earn about $67,000 a year to comfortably buy the median 13084 home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $114,322, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.

Income to buy the median home
$67,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$1,554
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $218,740 home
Median rent
$1,295
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$1,115
Property tax$366
Homeowners insurance$73

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 13084's effective rate of 2.01%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.

Renting versus buying

At today's prices, buying tends to cost more than renting for about the first 7 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. 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 13084

13084 runs older than the country.

Median age
44
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
20%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.6
near the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1817%
18 to 3423%
35 to 4920%
50 to 6420%
65 and older20%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for 13084.


Who works in 13084, and how

Work in 13084 centers on health care & social and education. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.

Work from home
17%
above the national average
Unemployment
4.8%
about the national average
Job growth
−1.1%
/y 2019-2023, slower than the national pace

Largest industries

Health care & social21%
Education13%
Construction11%
Retail trade11%
Manufacturing8%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 77%
  • Work from home 17%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 6%

Life in 13084

13084 has more restaurants and bars per resident than 68% of zip codes. That concentrates in some parts of 13084 and thins out in others, which the map shows.

Places to eat and drink
20
restaurants, bars, and fast food, about 49.6 per 10,000 residents, more than 68% of zip codes

What the weather is like in 13084, month by month

13084 sees roughly 69 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 87 degrees. January highs sit near 36, with lows near 18. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January36°27°18°
April60°47°36°
July87°74°63°
October66°54°44°

Flying in and out of 13084

The nearest airport, Syracuse Hancock International, is about 15 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Newark Liberty International, about 182 miles away.

Nearest airport
SYR
Syracuse Hancock International, about 15 miles
Airport size
Small hub
90th-busiest in the US, 58 nonstop destinations
Average drive
21 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around 13084

Schools across 13084 average a B−, better than 67% of zip codes.

Top elementary schools

Top high schools

Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every 13084 school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


13084 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 13084 against the other 33,109 zip codes.


Common questions about living in 13084

Is 13084 a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, 13084 ranks 6,789th of 33,110 zip codes. It scores highest on health care access, low disaster risk, and few empty homes, and lowest on property taxes and childcare costs. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is 13084 expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $218,740. The overall cost of living runs about 28% above the national average. Set against a $114,322 median income, cost of living beats 58% of zip codes.

Is 13084 safe?

Yes, 13084 is safer than 94% of zip codes. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $173 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 13084. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in 13084 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.

13084 detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for 13084: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in 13084: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of 13084: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in 13084: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

13084 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.