Best PlacesLamy, NM Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Lamy, 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.
Lamy ranks 8,043rd of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on an educated workforce by a wide margin, and air quality ranks lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Lamy
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.
Lamy's strengths and weaknesses
Where Lamy ranks high
- Educational attainmentBetter than 98% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than 97% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 164 pleasant days a year, better than 96% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than 93% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than 93% of towns
Where Lamy ranks low
- Air qualityBetter than only 4% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than only 11% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than only 17% of towns
- Tree shadeBetter than only 24% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 31% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Lamy
A household needs to earn about $174,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Lamy home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $102,985, 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 Lamy's effective rate of 0.47%, 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 Lamy
Lamy 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 Lamy.
Who works in Lamy, and how
Work in Lamy centers on health care & social and construction. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 67%
- Work from home 19%
- Transit, walk, or bike 14%
Life in Lamy
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Lamy.
What the weather is like in Lamy, month by month
Lamy sees roughly 164 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 92 degrees. January highs sit near 47, with lows near 19. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 47° | 31° | 19° |
| April | 71° | 52° | 33° |
| July | 92° | 75° | 58° |
| October | 71° | 54° | 37° |
Flying in and out of Lamy
The nearest airport, Santa Fe Regional, is about 14 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Albuquerque International Sunport, about 50 miles away.
The best schools in and around Lamy
Schools across Lamy average a B+, better than 82% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- El Dorado Community SchoolA+ · 75% proficient
Top high schools
- Pecos HighC · 31% proficient
- Capital HighC− · 28% proficient
- Bernalillo HighD · 21% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Lamy school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Lamy 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 Lamy against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Lamy
Is Lamy a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Lamy ranks 8,043rd of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on an educated workforce, health care access, and the weather, and lowest on air quality and crime. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Lamy expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $695,165. The overall cost of living runs about 0% above the national average. Set against a $102,985 median income, cost of living beats 85% of towns.
Is Lamy safe?
Lamy is safer than 11% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $713 per resident a year.
Compare Lamy with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Lamy. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Lamy 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.
Lamy detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Lamy: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Lamy: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Lamy: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Lamy: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Lamy 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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