Best PlacesKiantone, NY Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Kiantone, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. This page is for people who live here or already know they want to. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Kiantone ranks 8,211th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on heat safety by a wide margin, and property taxes are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Kiantone
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.
Kiantone's strengths and weaknesses
Where Kiantone ranks high
- Heat safetyBetter than 97% of towns
- School gradeA+, better than 97% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than 95% of towns
- Short commute17.8 minutes each way, better than 94% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than 86% of towns
Where Kiantone ranks low
- Low property taxBetter than only 1% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 12% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 15% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,088 a month, better than only 18% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 19% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Kiantone
A household needs to earn about $41,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Kiantone home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $75,757, 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 Kiantone's effective rate of 2.29%, 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 6 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Kiantone
Kiantone's age mix sits close to the national median.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Kiantone.
Who works in Kiantone, and how
Work in Kiantone centers on manufacturing and retail trade. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 86%
- Work from home 2%
- Transit, walk, or bike 13%
Life in Kiantone
Kiantone has more restaurants and bars per resident than 99% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Kiantone and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Kiantone, month by month
Kiantone sees roughly 95 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 79 degrees. January highs sit near 33, with lows near 18. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 33° | 25° | 18° |
| April | 56° | 45° | 35° |
| July | 79° | 69° | 59° |
| October | 61° | 51° | 42° |
Flying in and out of Kiantone
The nearest airport, Bradford Regional, is about 33 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Pittsburgh International, about 118 miles away.
The best schools in and around Kiantone
Schools across Kiantone average an A+, better than 97% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Robert H Jackson Elementary SchoolA+ · 75% proficient
Top high schools
- Frewsburg Junior-senior High SchoolA · 75% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Kiantone school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Kiantone 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 Kiantone against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Kiantone
Is Kiantone a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Kiantone ranks 8,211th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on heat safety, good schools, and low crime, and lowest on property taxes 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 Kiantone expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $128,768. The overall cost of living runs about 12% below the national average. Set against a $75,757 median income, cost of living beats 51% of towns.
Is Kiantone safe?
Yes, Kiantone is safer than 95% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $158 per resident a year.
Compare Kiantone with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Kiantone. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Kiantone 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.
Kiantone detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Kiantone: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Kiantone: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Kiantone: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Kiantone: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Kiantone 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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