Best PlacesDoney Park, AZ Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Doney Park, 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.
Doney Park ranks 8,386th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on heat safety by a wide margin, and an overheated housing market is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Doney Park
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.
Doney Park's strengths and weaknesses
Where Doney Park ranks high
- Heat safetyBetter than 98% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than 97% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than 94% of towns
- Household income$109,680 median, better than 90% of towns
- BikingBetter than 87% of towns
Where Doney Park ranks low
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 4% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 4% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 14% of towns
- School gradeD+, better than only 14% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than only 30% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Doney Park
A household needs to earn about $147,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Doney Park home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $109,680, so buying stretches a typical household.
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 Doney Park's effective rate of 0.43%, 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 Doney Park
Doney Park's age mix sits close to the national median, and households here run larger than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Doney Park.
Who works in Doney Park, and how
Work in Doney Park centers on retail trade and manufacturing. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 78%
- Work from home 20%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Doney Park
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Doney Park.
What the weather is like in Doney Park, month by month
Doney Park sees roughly 133 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 85 degrees. January highs sit near 45, with lows near 16. The comfortable stretch runs June through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 45° | 30° | 16° |
| April | 63° | 46° | 27° |
| July | 85° | 68° | 52° |
| October | 67° | 49° | 31° |
Flying in and out of Doney Park
The nearest airport, Flagstaff Pulliam, is about 12 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Phoenix Sky Harbor International, about 130 miles away.
The best schools in and around Doney Park
Schools across Doney Park average a D+, better than 14% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Weitzel's Puente De Hozho Bilingual Magnet SchoolC− · 30% proficient
- Sturgeon Cromer Elementary SchoolD · 20% proficient
Top middle schools
- Sinagua Middle SchoolD− · 17% proficient
Top high schools
- Summit High SchoolD+ · 25% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Doney Park school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Doney Park 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 Doney Park against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Doney Park
Is Doney Park a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Doney Park ranks 8,386th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on heat safety, population health, and civic engagement, and lowest on an overheated housing market and air quality. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Doney Park expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $591,723. The overall cost of living runs about 12% above the national average. Set against a $109,680 median income, cost of living beats 74% of towns.
Is Doney Park safe?
Yes, Doney Park is safer than 86% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $204 per resident a year.
Compare Doney Park with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Doney Park. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Doney Park 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.
Doney Park detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Doney Park: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Doney Park: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Doney Park: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Doney Park: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Doney Park 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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