Best PlacesCairo, NY Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Cairo, 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.
Cairo ranks 20,721st of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. An overheated housing market pulls hardest against it, while it scores best on big-city access.
The best neighborhoods in Cairo
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.
Cairo's strengths and weaknesses
Where Cairo ranks high
- Big-city accessBetter than 89% of towns
- TransitBetter than 89% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than 87% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than 87% of towns
- BikingBetter than 84% of towns
Where Cairo ranks low
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 2% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 8% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 10% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than only 10% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 15% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Cairo
A household needs to earn about $73,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Cairo home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $74,425, 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 Cairo's effective rate of 1.63%, 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.
Who lives in Cairo
Cairo's age mix sits close to the national median.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Cairo.
Who works in Cairo, and how
Work in Cairo centers on retail trade and transportation & warehousing. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 84%
- Work from home 13%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Cairo
Cairo has more restaurants and bars per resident than 90% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Cairo and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Cairo, month by month
Cairo sees roughly 71 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 87 degrees. January highs sit near 37, with lows near 18. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 37° | 27° | 18° |
| April | 62° | 49° | 37° |
| July | 87° | 74° | 63° |
| October | 66° | 54° | 43° |
Flying in and out of Cairo
The nearest airport, Albany International, is about 32 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Bradley International, about 73 miles away.
The best schools in and around Cairo
Schools across Cairo average a B, better than 77% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Catskill Elementary SchoolA · 65% proficient
- Cairo-durham Elementary SchoolB · 45% proficient
Top middle schools
- Greenville Middle SchoolB− · 43% proficient
- Catskill Middle SchoolC · 33% proficient
- Cairo-durham Middle SchoolD · 23% proficient
Top high schools
- Cairo-durham High SchoolA+ · 90% proficient
- Greenville High SchoolA+ · 85% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Cairo school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Cairo 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 Cairo against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Cairo
Is Cairo a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Cairo ranks 20,721st of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on big-city access, transit, and clean air, and lowest on an overheated housing market and property taxes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Cairo expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $251,523. The overall cost of living runs about 4% above the national average. Set against a $74,425 median income, cost of living beats 34% of towns.
Is Cairo safe?
Yes, Cairo is safer than 87% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $199 per resident a year.
Compare Cairo with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Cairo. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Cairo 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.
Cairo detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Cairo: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Cairo: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Cairo: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Cairo: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Cairo 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
Move a slider to say how much a measure matters. Zero turns it off.