Best PlacesKings Point, NY Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Kings Point, 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.
Kings Point ranks 1,208th 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 Kings Point
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.
Kings Point's strengths and weaknesses
Where Kings Point ranks high
- Big-city accessBetter than 99% of towns
- Household income$216,305 median, better than 99% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than 99% of towns
- School gradeA+, better than 99% of towns
- TransitBetter than 98% of towns
Where Kings Point ranks low
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 4% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,476 a month, better than only 4% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 5% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 9% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 15% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Kings Point
A household needs to earn about $502,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Kings Point home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $216,305, 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 Kings Point's effective rate of 1.54%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Who lives in Kings Point
Kings Point runs younger than the country, 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 Kings Point.
Who works in Kings Point, and how
Work in Kings Point centers on education and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 53%
- Work from home 21%
- Transit, walk, or bike 26%
Life in Kings Point
Kings Point has more parkland per resident than 99% of towns. The coast is about 5 minutes away. That concentrates in some parts of Kings Point and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Kings Point, month by month
Kings Point sees roughly 69 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 90 degrees. January highs sit near 44, with lows near 29. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, September, and October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 44° | 36° | 29° |
| April | 65° | 53° | 45° |
| July | 90° | 80° | 72° |
| October | 70° | 61° | 54° |
Flying in and out of Kings Point
Laguardia sits about 7 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 16.3 million passengers in 2025, with 118 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Kings Point
Schools across Kings Point average an A+, better than 99% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- John F Kennedy SchoolA+ · 88% proficient
Top middle schools
- Great Neck North Middle SchoolA+ · 82% proficient
Top high schools
- Great Neck North High SchoolA+ · 98% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Kings Point school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Kings Point 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 Kings Point against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Kings Point
Is Kings Point a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Kings Point ranks 1,208th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on big-city access, high incomes, and population health, and lowest on car insurance costs and childcare costs. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Kings Point expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $1,744,413. The overall cost of living runs about 71% above the national average. Set against a $216,305 median income, cost of living beats 93% of towns.
Is Kings Point safe?
Kings Point is safer than 43% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $326 per resident a year.
Compare Kings Point with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Kings Point. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Kings Point 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.
Kings Point detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Kings Point: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Kings Point: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Kings Point: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Kings Point: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Kings Point 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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