Best PlacesMaple Springs, NY Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Maple Springs, 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.
Maple Springs ranks 9,798th 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 Maple Springs
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.
Maple Springs' strengths and weaknesses
Where Maple Springs ranks high
- School gradeA, better than 95% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than 95% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than 94% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than 93% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than 91% of towns
Where Maple Springs ranks low
- Low property taxBetter than only 4% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than only 10% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 13% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than only 13% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 15% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Maple Springs
A household needs to earn about $57,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Maple Springs home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $80,772, 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 Maple Springs' effective rate of 1.92%, 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 Maple Springs
Maple Springs 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 Maple Springs.
Who works in Maple Springs, and how
Work in Maple Springs centers on health care & social and manufacturing. Unemployment is low, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 88%
- Work from home 7%
- Transit, walk, or bike 5%
Life in Maple Springs
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Maple Springs.
What the weather is like in Maple Springs, month by month
Maple Springs 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 Maple Springs
The nearest airport, Erie International/Tom Ridge Field, is about 40 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Pittsburgh International, about 126 miles away.
The best schools in and around Maple Springs
Schools across Maple Springs average an A, better than 95% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Bemus Point Elementary SchoolA+ · 73% proficient
Top high schools
- Chautauqua Lake Secondary SchoolA+ · 80% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Maple Springs school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Maple Springs 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 Maple Springs against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Maple Springs
Is Maple Springs a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Maple Springs ranks 9,798th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on good schools, low crime, and health care access, and lowest on property taxes and empty homes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Maple Springs expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $188,898. The overall cost of living runs about 4% above the national average. Set against a $80,772 median income, cost of living beats 54% of towns.
Is Maple Springs safe?
Yes, Maple Springs is safer than 95% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $186 per resident a year.
Compare Maple Springs with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Maple Springs. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Maple Springs 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.
Maple Springs detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Maple Springs: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Maple Springs: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Maple Springs: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Maple Springs: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Maple Springs 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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