Best PlacesGlen Spey, NY Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Glen Spey, 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.
Glen Spey ranks 10,191st of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on heat safety by a wide margin, and car insurance costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Glen Spey
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.
Glen Spey's strengths and weaknesses
Where Glen Spey ranks high
- Heat safetyBetter than 98% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 96% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than 94% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than 92% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than 88% of towns
Where Glen Spey ranks low
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 8% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 8% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than only 10% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 10% of towns
- Short commute35.3 minutes each way, better than only 13% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Glen Spey
A household needs to earn about $88,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Glen Spey home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $95,874, 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 Glen Spey's effective rate of 1.53%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Who lives in Glen Spey
Glen Spey runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Glen Spey.
Who works in Glen Spey, and how
Work in Glen Spey 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 81%
- Work from home 13%
- Transit, walk, or bike 6%
Life in Glen Spey
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Glen Spey.
What the weather is like in Glen Spey, month by month
Glen Spey sees roughly 69 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 83 degrees. January highs sit near 35, with lows near 17. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 35° | 26° | 17° |
| April | 58° | 45° | 34° |
| July | 83° | 71° | 59° |
| October | 63° | 51° | 41° |
Flying in and out of Glen Spey
The nearest airport, New York Stewart International, is about 36 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Newark Liberty International, about 64 miles away.
The best schools in and around Glen Spey
Schools across Glen Spey average a B+, better than 80% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- George Ross Mackenzie Elementary SchoolB · 50% proficient
- Kenneth L Rutherford SchoolB− · 41% proficient
Top middle schools
- Robert J Kaiser Middle SchoolD− · 14% proficient
Top high schools
- Monticello High SchoolA+ · 83% proficient
- Eldred Junior-senior High SchoolB+ · 58% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Glen Spey school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Glen Spey 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 Glen Spey against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Glen Spey
Is Glen Spey a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Glen Spey ranks 10,191st of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on heat safety, big-city access, and fast internet, and lowest on car insurance costs and an overheated housing market. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Glen Spey expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $305,267. The overall cost of living runs about 8% below the national average. Set against a $95,874 median income, cost of living beats 82% of towns.
Is Glen Spey safe?
Yes, Glen Spey is safer than 92% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $173 per resident a year.
Compare Glen Spey with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Glen Spey. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Glen Spey 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.
Glen Spey detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Glen Spey: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Glen Spey: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Glen Spey: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Glen Spey: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Glen Spey 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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