Best PlacesMiller Place, NY Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Miller Place, 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.
Miller Place ranks 1,794th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on high incomes by a wide margin, and property taxes are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Miller Place
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.
Miller Place's strengths and weaknesses
Where Miller Place ranks high
- Household income$165,559 median, better than 98% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than 98% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 98% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than 97% of towns
- School gradeA, better than 96% of towns
Where Miller Place ranks low
- Low property taxBetter than only 2% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,476 a month, better than only 4% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 6% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 6% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 15% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Miller Place
A household needs to earn about $195,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Miller Place home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $165,559, 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 Miller Place's effective rate of 2.10%, 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 Miller Place
Miller Place runs older 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 Miller Place.
Who works in Miller Place, and how
Work in Miller Place centers on health care & social and education. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 80%
- Work from home 17%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Miller Place
Miller Place has more restaurants and bars per resident than 74% of towns. The coast is about 4 minutes away. That concentrates in some parts of Miller Place and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Miller Place, month by month
Miller Place sees roughly 72 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 86 degrees. January highs sit near 44, with lows near 25. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, and August through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 44° | 34° | 25° |
| April | 61° | 50° | 40° |
| July | 86° | 76° | 67° |
| October | 69° | 58° | 48° |
Flying in and out of Miller Place
The nearest airport, Long Island MacArthur, is about 12 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is John F Kennedy International, about 46 miles away.
The best schools in and around Miller Place
Schools across Miller Place average an A, better than 96% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Mount Sinai Elementary SchoolA+ · 81% proficient
- Sound Beach SchoolB+ · 55% proficient
- West Middle Island SchoolB · 45% proficient
Top middle schools
- Mount Sinai Middle SchoolA+ · 72% proficient
- Rocky Point Middle SchoolA+ · 70% proficient
- North Country Road SchoolA+ · 68% proficient
Top high schools
- Robert M Grable Jr Mount Sinai High SchoolA+ · 98% proficient
- Miller Place High SchoolA+ · 97% proficient
- Rocky Point High SchoolA+ · 94% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Miller Place school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Miller Place 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 Miller Place against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Miller Place
Is Miller Place a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Miller Place ranks 1,794th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on high incomes, fast internet, and big-city access, and lowest on property taxes and childcare costs. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Miller Place expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $632,765. The overall cost of living runs about 20% above the national average. Set against a $165,559 median income, cost of living beats 96% of towns.
Is Miller Place safe?
Yes, Miller Place is safer than 90% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $190 per resident a year.
Compare Miller Place with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Miller Place. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Miller Place 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.
Miller Place detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Miller Place: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Miller Place: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Miller Place: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Miller Place: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Miller Place 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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