Best PlacesLiberty, NY Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Liberty, 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.
Liberty ranks 28,319th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on biking by a wide margin, and property taxes are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Liberty
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.
Liberty's strengths and weaknesses
Where Liberty ranks high
- BikingBetter than 98% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than 96% of towns
- TransitBetter than 96% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than 96% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 93% of towns
Where Liberty ranks low
- Low property taxBetter than only 1% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 7% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 9% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than only 10% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than only 13% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Liberty
A household needs to earn about $74,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Liberty home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $65,254, 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 Liberty's effective rate of 2.51%, 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 Liberty
Liberty 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 Liberty.
Who works in Liberty, and how
Work in Liberty centers on health care & social and manufacturing. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 85%
- Work from home 8%
- Transit, walk, or bike 7%
Life in Liberty
Liberty has more restaurants and bars per resident than 88% of towns and more parkland per resident than 95% of towns. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Liberty and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Liberty, month by month
Liberty sees roughly 68 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 83 degrees. January highs sit near 35, with lows near 17. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 35° | 26° | 17° |
| April | 58° | 45° | 34° |
| July | 83° | 71° | 59° |
| October | 63° | 51° | 41° |
Flying in and out of Liberty
The nearest airport, New York Stewart International, is about 39 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Newark Liberty International, about 82 miles away.
The best schools in and around Liberty
Schools across Liberty average a B−, better than 72% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Tri-valley Elementary SchoolB+ · 53% proficient
- Liberty Elementary SchoolB− · 43% proficient
Top middle schools
- Liberty Middle SchoolD− · 16% proficient
Top high schools
- Liberty High SchoolA+ · 88% proficient
- Monticello High SchoolA+ · 83% proficient
- Sullivan West High School At Lake HuntingtonA− · 63% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Liberty school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Liberty 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 Liberty against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Liberty
Is Liberty a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Liberty ranks 28,319th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on biking, walkability, and transit, 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 Liberty expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $227,990. The overall cost of living runs about 14% below the national average. Set against a $65,254 median income, cost of living beats 39% of towns.
Is Liberty safe?
Liberty is safer than 27% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $406 per resident a year.
Compare Liberty with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Liberty. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Liberty 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.
Liberty detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Liberty: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Liberty: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Liberty: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Liberty: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Liberty 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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