Best PlacesMount Pocono, PA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Mount Pocono, 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.
Mount Pocono ranks 21,962nd of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on heat safety by a wide margin, and an overheated housing market is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Mount Pocono
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.
Mount Pocono's strengths and weaknesses
Where Mount Pocono ranks high
- Heat safetyBetter than 96% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 95% of towns
- TransitBetter than 95% of towns
- BikingBetter than 92% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than 92% of towns
Where Mount Pocono ranks low
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 2% of towns
- Crime safetyBetter than only 8% of towns
- Local economyBetter than only 12% of towns
- Short commute35.1 minutes each way, better than only 14% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 14% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Mount Pocono
A household needs to earn about $63,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Mount Pocono home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $89,079, 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 Mount Pocono's effective rate of 1.35%, 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 9 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Mount Pocono
Mount Pocono runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Mount Pocono.
Who works in Mount Pocono, and how
Work in Mount Pocono centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 86%
- Work from home 4%
- Transit, walk, or bike 9%
Life in Mount Pocono
Mount Pocono has more restaurants and bars per resident than 94% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Mount Pocono and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Mount Pocono, month by month
Mount Pocono sees roughly 77 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 81 degrees. January highs sit near 34, with lows near 17. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 34° | 25° | 17° |
| April | 58° | 45° | 34° |
| July | 81° | 70° | 59° |
| October | 62° | 51° | 41° |
Flying in and out of Mount Pocono
The nearest airport, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International, is about 24 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Newark Liberty International, about 69 miles away.
The best schools in and around Mount Pocono
Schools across Mount Pocono average a B, better than 76% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Clear Run Intrmd SchA · 65% proficient
Top middle schools
- Swiftwater Interm SchA+ · 80% proficient
- Pocono Mountain West JhsD · 20% proficient
Top high schools
- Pocono Mountain West HsB · 47% proficient
- Pocono Mountain East HsB− · 45% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Mount Pocono school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Mount Pocono 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 Mount Pocono against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Mount Pocono
Is Mount Pocono a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Mount Pocono ranks 21,962nd of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on heat safety, big-city access, and transit, and lowest on an overheated housing market and crime. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Mount Pocono expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $222,607. The overall cost of living runs about 10% below the national average. Set against a $89,079 median income, cost of living beats 74% of towns.
Is Mount Pocono safe?
Mount Pocono is safer than 8% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $494 per resident a year.
Compare Mount Pocono with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Mount Pocono. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Mount Pocono 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.
Mount Pocono detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Mount Pocono: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Mount Pocono: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Mount Pocono: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Mount Pocono: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Mount Pocono 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.