Best PlacesHoneoye, NY Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Honeoye, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Several measures below read low, and the ranked lists name which ones. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Honeoye ranks 15,847th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on health care access by a wide margin, and property taxes are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Honeoye
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.
Honeoye's strengths and weaknesses
Where Honeoye ranks high
- Healthcare accessBetter than 96% of towns
- School gradeA, better than 91% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than 88% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than 86% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than 84% of towns
Where Honeoye ranks low
- Low property taxBetter than only 6% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,317 a month, better than only 8% of towns
- Local economyBetter than only 9% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than only 10% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 13% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Honeoye
A household needs to earn about $60,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Honeoye home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $83,918, 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 Honeoye's effective rate of 1.72%, 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 Honeoye
Honeoye 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 Honeoye.
Who works in Honeoye, and how
Work in Honeoye centers on health care & social and construction. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 85%
- Work from home 12%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Honeoye
Honeoye has more parkland per resident than 99% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Honeoye and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Honeoye, month by month
Honeoye sees roughly 87 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 87 degrees. January highs sit near 38, with lows near 20. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 38° | 29° | 20° |
| April | 62° | 48° | 36° |
| July | 87° | 74° | 61° |
| October | 68° | 54° | 43° |
Flying in and out of Honeoye
The nearest airport, Frederick Douglass/Greater Rochester International, is about 26 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Pittsburgh International, about 211 miles away.
The best schools in and around Honeoye
Schools across Honeoye average an A, better than 91% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Naples Elementary SchoolA+ · 73% proficient
- Honeoye Elementary SchoolA · 63% proficient
- Wayland Elementary SchoolA · 63% proficient
Top middle schools
- Bloomfield Middle SchoolA · 60% proficient
- Wayland-cohocton Middle SchoolC+ · 36% proficient
Top high schools
- Bloomfield High SchoolA+ · 91% proficient
- Wayland-cohocton High SchoolA+ · 90% proficient
- Naples High SchoolA− · 65% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Honeoye school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Honeoye 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 Honeoye against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Honeoye
Is Honeoye a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Honeoye ranks 15,847th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on health care access, good schools, and clean air, and lowest on property taxes and childcare costs. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Honeoye expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $203,024. The overall cost of living runs about 3% above the national average. Set against a $83,918 median income, cost of living beats 49% of towns.
Is Honeoye safe?
Yes, Honeoye is safer than 80% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $218 per resident a year.
Compare Honeoye with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Honeoye. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Honeoye 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.
Honeoye detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Honeoye: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Honeoye: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Honeoye: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Honeoye: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Honeoye 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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