Best PlacesLima, NY Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Lima, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Several measures below read low, and the ranked lists name which ones. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Lima ranks 5,656th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on good schools by a wide margin, and property taxes are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Lima
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.
Lima's strengths and weaknesses
Where Lima ranks high
- School gradeA+, better than 99% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than 97% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than 92% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than 91% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than 91% of towns
Where Lima ranks low
- Low property taxBetter than only 2% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 15% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 15% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,099 a month, better than only 16% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 17% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Lima
A household needs to earn about $66,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Lima home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $80,180, 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 Lima's effective rate of 2.05%, 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 Lima
Lima'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 Lima.
Who works in Lima, and how
Work in Lima centers on education and manufacturing. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 80%
- Work from home 12%
- Transit, walk, or bike 8%
Life in Lima
Lima has more parkland per resident than 96% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Lima and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Lima, month by month
Lima sees roughly 70 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 85 degrees. January highs sit near 36, with lows near 20. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 36° | 28° | 20° |
| April | 59° | 47° | 36° |
| July | 85° | 73° | 62° |
| October | 66° | 54° | 44° |
Flying in and out of Lima
The nearest airport, Frederick Douglass/Greater Rochester International, is about 16 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Pittsburgh International, about 214 miles away.
The best schools in and around Lima
Schools across Lima average an A+, better than 99% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Manor Intermediate SchoolA+ · 88% proficient
- Bloomfield Elementary SchoolA+ · 83% proficient
- Livonia Elementary SchoolA · 65% proficient
Top middle schools
- Honeoye Falls-lima Middle SchoolA+ · 74% proficient
- Bloomfield Middle SchoolA · 60% proficient
Top high schools
- Honeoye Falls-lima Senior High SchoolA+ · 98% proficient
- Bloomfield High SchoolA+ · 91% proficient
- Livonia Middle/high SchoolA · 74% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Lima school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Lima 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 Lima against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Lima
Is Lima a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Lima ranks 5,656th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on good schools, low disaster risk, and health care access, 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 Lima expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $216,943. The overall cost of living runs about 0% below the national average. Set against a $80,180 median income, cost of living beats 45% of towns.
Is Lima safe?
Yes, Lima is safer than 91% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $184 per resident a year.
Compare Lima with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Lima. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Lima 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.
Lima detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Lima: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Lima: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Lima: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Lima: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Lima 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
Move a slider to say how much a measure matters. Zero turns it off.