Best PlacesGarden City Park, NY Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Garden City 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.
Garden City Park ranks 1,533rd of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on big-city access by a wide margin, and car insurance costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Garden City 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.
Garden City Park's strengths and weaknesses
Where Garden City Park ranks high
- Big-city accessBetter than 99% of towns
- TransitBetter than 99% of towns
- School gradeA+, better than 99% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than 99% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 99% of towns
Where Garden City Park ranks low
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 1% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 4% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,476 a month, better than only 4% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 10% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 15% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Garden City Park
A household needs to earn about $237,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Garden City Park home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $151,176, 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 Garden City Park's effective rate of 1.50%, 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 Garden City Park
Garden City 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 Garden City Park.
Who works in Garden City Park, and how
Work in Garden City Park centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 67%
- Work from home 16%
- Transit, walk, or bike 17%
Life in Garden City Park
Garden City Park has more restaurants and bars per resident than 82% of towns. The coast is about 14 minutes away. That concentrates in some parts of Garden City Park and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Garden City Park, month by month
Garden City 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 Garden City Park
John F Kennedy International sits about 9 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 Garden City Park
Schools across Garden City Park average an A+, better than 99% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Denton Avenue SchoolA+ · 94% proficient
- Center Street SchoolA+ · 94% proficient
- Stratford Avenue SchoolA+ · 89% proficient
Top middle schools
- Herricks Middle SchoolA+ · 79% proficient
- Mineola Middle SchoolA · 66% proficient
Top high schools
- Garden City High SchoolA+ · 100% proficient
- Herricks High SchoolA+ · 99% proficient
- Mineola High SchoolA+ · 87% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Garden City Park school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Garden City 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 Garden City Park against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Garden City Park
Is Garden City Park a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Garden City Park ranks 1,533rd of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on big-city access, transit, and good schools, and lowest on car insurance costs and noise. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Garden City Park expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $828,760. The overall cost of living runs about 47% above the national average. Set against a $151,176 median income, cost of living beats 77% of towns.
Is Garden City Park safe?
Garden City Park is safer than 31% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $380 per resident a year.
Compare Garden City Park with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Garden City Park. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Garden City 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.
Garden City Park detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Garden City Park: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Garden City Park: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Garden City Park: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Garden City Park: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Garden City 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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