Best PlacesMattituck, NY Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Mattituck, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. The coast is close, and the measures below put a number on how close. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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Mattituck ranks 3,854th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on fast internet by a wide margin, and childcare costs are the weak spot.

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The best neighborhoods in Mattituck

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Mattituck area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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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.

Mattituck's strengths and weaknesses

Top 3%Fast internet
Top 3%Good schools
Top 5%Health care access
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Mattituck with other towns.

Where Mattituck ranks high

  • Internet speedBetter than 99% of towns
  • School gradeA+, better than 98% of towns
  • Healthcare accessBetter than 97% of towns
  • Educational attainmentBetter than 95% of towns
  • Big-city accessBetter than 95% of towns

Where Mattituck ranks low

  • Cheap childcare$1,476 a month, better than only 4% of towns
  • Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 7% of towns
  • Housing crash safetyBetter than only 7% of towns
  • Low vacancyBetter than only 10% of towns
  • Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 15% of towns

What it costs to buy a home in Mattituck

A household needs to earn about $210,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Mattituck home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $120,324, so buying stretches a typical household.

Income to buy the median home
$210,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$4,898
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $773,715 home

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$3,945
Property tax$695
Homeowners insurance$258

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 Mattituck's effective rate of 1.08%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.


Who lives in Mattituck

Mattituck runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.

Median age
51
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
31%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.4
below the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1818%
18 to 3410%
35 to 4918%
50 to 6422%
65 and older31%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Mattituck.


Who works in Mattituck, and how

Work in Mattituck centers on retail trade and professional & technical. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
34%
above the national average
Unemployment
6.6%
above the national average
Job growth
+7.5%
/y 2019-2023, faster than the national pace

Largest industries

Retail trade16%
Professional & technical11%
Arts & entertainment10%
Health care & social9%
Education8%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 52%
  • Work from home 34%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 14%

Life in Mattituck

Mattituck has more restaurants and bars per resident than 94% of towns. The coast is about 4 minutes away. That concentrates in some parts of Mattituck and thins out in others, which the map shows.

Places to eat and drink
68
restaurants, bars, and fast food, about 148.2 per 10,000 residents, more than 94% of towns
To the coast
4 min
drive to the nearest ocean beaches

What the weather is like in Mattituck, month by month

Mattituck sees roughly 79 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 84 degrees. January highs sit near 43, with lows near 22. The comfortable stretch runs May through October.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January43°33°22°
April59°48°37°
July84°74°64°
October68°56°44°

Flying in and out of Mattituck

The nearest airport, Tweed/New Haven, is about 26 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Bradley International, about 66 miles away.

Nearest airport
HVN
Tweed/New Haven, about 26 miles
Airport size
Small hub
122nd-busiest in the US, 41 nonstop destinations
Average drive
37 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Mattituck

Schools across Mattituck average an A+, better than 98% of towns.

Top elementary schools

Top high schools

Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Mattituck school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


Mattituck 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 Mattituck against the other 50,332 towns.


Common questions about living in Mattituck

Is Mattituck a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Mattituck ranks 3,854th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on fast internet, good schools, and health care access, and lowest on childcare costs 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 Mattituck expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $773,715. The overall cost of living runs about 44% above the national average. Set against a $120,324 median income, cost of living beats 63% of towns.

Is Mattituck safe?

Yes, Mattituck is safer than 66% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $271 per resident a year.


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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Mattituck. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Mattituck 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.

Mattituck detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for Mattituck: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in Mattituck: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of Mattituck: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in Mattituck: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

Mattituck detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. 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.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  5. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  6. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  7. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  8. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  9. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  10. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  11. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  12. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.