Best PlacesAirmont, VA Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Airmont, 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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Airmont ranks 115th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on low crime by a wide margin, and childcare costs are the weak spot.

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The best neighborhoods in Airmont

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Airmont 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.

Airmont's strengths and weaknesses

#115Best US town overall
Top 1%Low crime
Top 1%High incomes
Top 3%What local pay buys
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Airmont with other towns.

Where Airmont ranks high

  • Crime safetyBetter than 99% of towns
  • Household income$215,380 median, better than 99% of towns
  • Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 98% of towns
  • Educational attainmentBetter than 98% of towns
  • Healthcare accessBetter than 97% of towns

Where Airmont ranks low

  • Cheap childcare$1,632 a month, better than only 1% of towns
  • Short commute39.0 minutes each way, better than only 6% of towns
  • State fiscal healthBetter than only 16% of towns
  • Internet speedBetter than only 18% of towns
  • WalkabilityBetter than only 19% of towns

What it costs to buy a home in Airmont

A household needs to earn about $236,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Airmont home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is only a little above the area's median income of $215,380; the gap is small, which keeps homes within reach of local pay.

Income to buy the median home
$236,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$5,499
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $902,944 home
Median rent
$2,307
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$4,604
Property tax$594
Homeowners insurance$301

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 Airmont's effective rate of 0.79%, 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 Airmont

Airmont's age mix sits close to the national median, and households here run larger than average.

Median age
42
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
15%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
3.3
above the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1831%
18 to 3412%
35 to 4919%
50 to 6423%
65 and older15%

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


Who works in Airmont, and how

Work in Airmont centers on professional & technical and health care & social. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
34%
above the national average
Unemployment
11.2%
above the national average
Job growth
+19.7%
/y 2019-2023, faster than the national pace

Largest industries

Professional & technical29%
Health care & social12%
Education10%
Information9%
Construction8%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 63%
  • Work from home 34%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 4%

Life in Airmont

The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Airmont.


What the weather is like in Airmont, month by month

Airmont sees roughly 70 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 89 degrees. January highs sit near 43, with lows near 29. The comfortable stretch runs April through 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
January43°36°29°
April68°56°46°
July89°78°68°
October69°58°49°

Flying in and out of Airmont

Washington Dulles International sits about 20 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 13.9 million passengers in 2025, with 200 nonstop destinations.

Nearest airport
IAD
Washington Dulles International, about 20 miles
Airport size
Large hub
22nd-busiest in the US, 200 nonstop destinations
Average drive
28 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Airmont

Schools across Airmont average an A, better than 94% of towns.

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 Airmont school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


Airmont 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 Airmont against the other 50,332 towns.


Common questions about living in Airmont

Is Airmont a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Airmont ranks 115th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on low crime, high incomes, and what local pay buys, and lowest on childcare costs and long commutes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Airmont expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $902,944. The overall cost of living runs about 32% above the national average. Set against a $215,380 median income, cost of living beats 98% of towns.

Is Airmont safe?

Yes, Airmont is safer than 100% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $81 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 Airmont. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Airmont 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.

Airmont detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

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

Airmont 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.