Best PlacesMillerton, PA Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Millerton, 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.

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Millerton ranks 21,463rd of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. Cell coverage pulls hardest against it, while it scores best on good schools.

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The best neighborhoods in Millerton

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Millerton 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.

Millerton's strengths and weaknesses

Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Millerton with other towns.

Where Millerton ranks high

  • School gradeA−, better than 86% of towns
  • Crime safetyBetter than 85% of towns
  • Air qualityBetter than 84% of towns
  • QuietBetter than 80% of towns
  • Cheap car insuranceBetter than 76% of towns

Where Millerton ranks low

  • Cell coverageBetter than only 5% of towns
  • Nice weatherabout 63 pleasant days a year, better than only 13% of towns
  • State infrastructureBetter than only 19% of towns
  • Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 22% of towns
  • Short commute31.3 minutes each way, better than only 27% of towns

What it costs to buy a home in Millerton

A household needs to earn about $52,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Millerton home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $65,185, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.

Income to buy the median home
$52,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$1,218
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $195,360 home
Median rent
$1,000
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$996
Property tax$157
Homeowners insurance$65

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 Millerton's effective rate of 0.96%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.

Renting versus buying

At today's prices, buying tends to cost more than renting for about the first 7 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.

Cumulative cost of renting versus owning the median home, first 10 years. Illustrative estimate.

Who lives in Millerton

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

Median age
53
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
25%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.4
below the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1818%
18 to 3415%
35 to 4920%
50 to 6422%
65 and older25%

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


Who works in Millerton, and how

Work in Millerton centers on manufacturing and health care & social. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.

Work from home
5%
below the national average
Unemployment
3.8%
below the national average
Job growth
+0.7%
/y 2019-2023, slower than the national pace

Largest industries

Manufacturing20%
Health care & social17%
Retail trade9%
Construction8%
Transportation & warehousing8%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 91%
  • Work from home 5%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 4%

Life in Millerton

Millerton has more restaurants and bars per resident than 98% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Millerton and thins out in others, which the map shows.

Places to eat and drink
73
restaurants, bars, and fast food, about 388.5 per 10,000 residents, more than 98% of towns
Coffee shops
6
about 31.9 per 10,000 residents, more than 96% of towns

What the weather is like in Millerton, month by month

Millerton sees roughly 63 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 87 degrees. January highs sit near 38, with lows near 18. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January38°28°18°
April62°47°34°
July87°72°58°
October67°53°41°

Flying in and out of Millerton

The nearest airport, Elmira/Corning Regional, is about 14 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Newark Liberty International, about 168 miles away.

Nearest airport
ELM
Elmira/Corning Regional, about 14 miles
Airport size
Nonhub
225th-busiest in the US, 7 nonstop destinations
Average drive
20 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Millerton

Schools across Millerton average an A−, better than 86% of towns.

Top elementary schools

Top high schools

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


Millerton 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 Millerton against the other 50,332 towns.


Common questions about living in Millerton

Is Millerton a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Millerton ranks 21,463rd of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on good schools, low crime, and clean air, and lowest on cell coverage and the weather. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Millerton expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $195,360. The overall cost of living runs about 14% below the national average. Set against a $65,185 median income, cost of living beats 40% of towns.

Is Millerton safe?

Yes, Millerton is safer than 85% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $169 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 Millerton. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Millerton 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.

Millerton detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

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

Millerton 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.