Best PlacesBellerose Terrace, NY Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Bellerose Terrace, 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.
Bellerose Terrace ranks 10,635th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on big-city access by a wide margin, and noise is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Bellerose Terrace
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.
Bellerose Terrace's strengths and weaknesses
Where Bellerose Terrace ranks high
- Big-city accessBetter than 99% of towns
- TransitBetter than 99% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than 99% of towns
- Household income$167,097 median, better than 98% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than 98% of towns
Where Bellerose Terrace ranks low
- QuietBetter than only 1% of towns
- Local economyBetter than only 1% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 1% of towns
- Short commute42.4 minutes each way, better than only 3% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,476 a month, better than only 4% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Bellerose Terrace
A household needs to earn about $159,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Bellerose Terrace home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $167,097, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.
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 Bellerose Terrace's effective rate of 1.69%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Who lives in Bellerose Terrace
Bellerose Terrace runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Bellerose Terrace.
Who works in Bellerose Terrace, and how
Work in Bellerose Terrace centers on health care & social and professional & technical. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 59%
- Work from home 22%
- Transit, walk, or bike 19%
Life in Bellerose Terrace
The coast is about 16 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Bellerose Terrace, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Bellerose Terrace, month by month
Bellerose Terrace sees roughly 67 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 87 degrees. January highs sit near 44, with lows near 27. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, September, and October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 44° | 35° | 27° |
| April | 63° | 51° | 43° |
| July | 87° | 77° | 70° |
| October | 70° | 60° | 51° |
Flying in and out of Bellerose Terrace
John F Kennedy International sits about 6 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 31.0 million passengers in 2025, with 249 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Bellerose Terrace
Schools across Bellerose Terrace average an A−, better than 91% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Brooklyn School Of InquiryA+ · 93% proficient
- Floral Park-bellerose SchoolA+ · 87% proficient
- Ps/is 295B · 50% proficient
Top middle schools
- Knowledge And Power Preparatory Academy ViC− · 28% proficient
Top high schools
- Martin Van Buren High SchoolA+ · 86% proficient
- Professional Pathways High SchoolA− · 60% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Bellerose Terrace school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Bellerose Terrace 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 Bellerose Terrace against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Bellerose Terrace
Is Bellerose Terrace a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Bellerose Terrace ranks 10,635th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on big-city access, transit, and fast internet, and lowest on noise and a weak job market. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Bellerose Terrace expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $541,200. The overall cost of living runs about 40% above the national average. Set against a $167,097 median income, cost of living beats 88% of towns.
Is Bellerose Terrace safe?
Bellerose Terrace is safer than 51% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $293 per resident a year.
Compare Bellerose Terrace with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Bellerose Terrace. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Bellerose Terrace 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.
Bellerose Terrace detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Bellerose Terrace: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Bellerose Terrace: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Bellerose Terrace: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Bellerose Terrace: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Bellerose Terrace 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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