Best PlacesKeuka Park, NY Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Keuka 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.
Keuka Park ranks 6,149th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on good schools by a wide margin, and empty homes are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Keuka 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.
Keuka Park's strengths and weaknesses
Where Keuka Park ranks high
- School gradeA, better than 97% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 95% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than 94% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than 91% of towns
- Household income$111,078 median, better than 90% of towns
Where Keuka Park ranks low
- Low vacancyBetter than only 10% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 12% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 15% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 15% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 16% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Keuka Park
A household needs to earn about $122,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Keuka Park home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is only a little above the area's median income of $111,078; the gap is small, which keeps homes within reach of local pay.
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 Keuka Park's effective rate of 1.45%, 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 Keuka Park
Keuka Park runs younger than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Keuka Park.
Who works in Keuka Park, and how
Work in Keuka Park centers on education and retail trade. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 65%
- Work from home 17%
- Transit, walk, or bike 18%
Life in Keuka Park
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Keuka Park.
What the weather is like in Keuka Park, month by month
Keuka Park sees roughly 97 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 85 degrees. January highs sit near 36, with lows near 19. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 36° | 27° | 19° |
| April | 59° | 46° | 36° |
| July | 85° | 73° | 62° |
| October | 65° | 54° | 44° |
Flying in and out of Keuka Park
The nearest airport, Elmira/Corning Regional, is about 32 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Newark Liberty International, about 201 miles away.
The best schools in and around Keuka Park
Schools across Keuka Park average an A, better than 97% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Penn Yan Elementary SchoolA+ · 73% proficient
- Glenn H Curtiss Memorial SchoolA · 68% proficient
- Dundee Elementary SchoolB+ · 53% proficient
Top middle schools
- Penn Yan Middle SchoolA− · 58% proficient
Top high schools
- Penn Yan AcademyA+ · 98% proficient
- Hammondsport Junior-senior High SchoolA · 73% proficient
- Dundee Junior-senior High SchoolA− · 60% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Keuka Park school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Keuka 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 Keuka Park against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Keuka Park
Is Keuka Park a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Keuka Park ranks 6,149th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on good schools, an educated workforce, and heat safety, and lowest on empty homes and property taxes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Keuka Park expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $430,435. The overall cost of living runs about 10% above the national average. Set against a $111,078 median income, cost of living beats 72% of towns.
Is Keuka Park safe?
Yes, Keuka Park is safer than 81% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $211 per resident a year.
Compare Keuka Park with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Keuka Park. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Keuka 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.
Keuka Park detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Keuka Park: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Keuka Park: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Keuka Park: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Keuka Park: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Keuka 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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