Best PlacesFloral Park, NY Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Floral 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.
Floral Park ranks 1,686th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on transit by a wide margin, and noise is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Floral 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.
Floral Park's strengths and weaknesses
Where Floral Park ranks high
- TransitBetter than 99% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 99% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than 99% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than 99% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than 98% of towns
Where Floral Park ranks low
- QuietBetter than only 2% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 2% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,476 a month, better than only 4% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 8% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 15% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Floral Park
A household needs to earn about $217,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Floral Park home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $150,979, 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 Floral Park's effective rate of 1.62%, 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 Floral Park
Floral Park runs older than the country, 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 Floral Park.
Who works in Floral Park, and how
Work in Floral Park centers on health care & social and education. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 66%
- Work from home 16%
- Transit, walk, or bike 17%
Life in Floral Park
The coast is about 17 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Floral Park, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Floral Park, month by month
Floral Park 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 Floral Park
John F Kennedy International sits about 7 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 Floral Park
Schools across Floral Park average an A+, better than 98% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Brooklyn School Of InquiryA+ · 93% proficient
- Floral Park-bellerose SchoolA+ · 87% proficient
- Covert Avenue SchoolA+ · 78% proficient
Top middle schools
- Irwin Altman Middle School 172A · 62% proficient
- Knowledge And Power Preparatory Academy ViC− · 28% proficient
Top high schools
- New Hyde Park Memorial High SchoolA+ · 86% proficient
- Martin Van Buren High SchoolA+ · 86% proficient
- Floral Park Memorial High SchoolA+ · 81% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Floral Park school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Floral 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 Floral Park against the other 50,332 towns.
Who Floral Park suits
Remote workers
Cost of living against local pay beats 85% of towns, internet is fast and widely advertised, and 16% already work from home.
Common questions about living in Floral Park
Is Floral Park a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Floral Park ranks 1,686th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on transit, big-city access, and walkability, and lowest on noise and car insurance costs. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Floral Park expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $745,957. The overall cost of living runs about 38% above the national average. Set against a $150,979 median income, cost of living beats 85% of towns.
Is Floral Park safe?
Floral Park is safer than 43% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $329 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Floral Park?
July highs average about 87 degrees, and January highs near 44 with lows near 27. That works out to about 67 pleasant days a year, more than 20% of towns.
Is Floral Park good for families?
Schools beat 98% of towns, crime safety beats 43%, and childcare runs $1,476 a month.
Compare Floral Park with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Floral Park. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Floral 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.
Floral Park detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Floral Park: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Floral Park: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Floral Park: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Floral Park: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Floral 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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