Best PlacesBakers Mills, NY Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Bakers Mills, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. This page is for people who live here or already know they want to. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Bakers Mills ranks 21,021st of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on quiet by a wide margin, and the weather ranks lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Bakers Mills
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.
Bakers Mills' strengths and weaknesses
Where Bakers Mills ranks high
- QuietBetter than 97% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than 95% of towns
- Tree shadeBetter than 94% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than 92% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than 90% of towns
Where Bakers Mills ranks low
- Nice weatherabout 53 pleasant days a year, better than only 2% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than only 5% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,317 a month, better than only 8% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than only 10% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 12% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Bakers Mills
A household needs to earn about $65,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Bakers Mills home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is only a little above the area's median income of $58,690; the gap is small, which keeps homes within reach of local pay.
Where the monthly payment goes
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 Bakers Mills' effective rate of 1.07%, 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.
Who lives in Bakers Mills
Bakers Mills runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Bakers Mills.
Who works in Bakers Mills, and how
Work in Bakers Mills centers on professional & technical and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 74%
- Work from home 23%
- Transit, walk, or bike 4%
Life in Bakers Mills
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Bakers Mills.
What the weather is like in Bakers Mills, month by month
Bakers Mills sees roughly 53 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 85 degrees. January highs sit near 34, with lows near 14. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 34° | 24° | 14° |
| April | 59° | 46° | 33° |
| July | 85° | 71° | 58° |
| October | 63° | 51° | 39° |
Flying in and out of Bakers Mills
The nearest airport, Adirondack Regional, is about 52 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Bradley International, about 136 miles away.
The best schools in and around Bakers Mills
Schools across Bakers Mills average an A−, better than 86% of towns.
Top high schools
- Johnsburg Central SchoolA · 60% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Bakers Mills school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Bakers Mills 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 Bakers Mills against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Bakers Mills
Is Bakers Mills a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Bakers Mills ranks 21,021st of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on quiet, health care access, and tree cover, and lowest on the weather and cell coverage. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Bakers Mills expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $240,322. The overall cost of living runs about 0% above the national average. Set against a $58,690 median income, cost of living beats 14% of towns.
Is Bakers Mills safe?
Yes, Bakers Mills is safer than 90% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $184 per resident a year.
Compare Bakers Mills with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Bakers Mills. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Bakers Mills 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.
Bakers Mills detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Bakers Mills: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Bakers Mills: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Bakers Mills: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Bakers Mills: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Bakers Mills detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- 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.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
Your priorities
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