Best PlacesOak Beach, NY Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Oak Beach, 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.
Oak Beach ranks 14,954th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on a strong job market by a wide margin, and childcare costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Oak Beach
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.
Oak Beach's strengths and weaknesses
Where Oak Beach ranks high
- Local economyBetter than 99% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 99% of towns
- School gradeA+, better than 99% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 99% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than 95% of towns
Where Oak Beach ranks low
- Cheap childcare$1,476 a month, better than only 4% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 5% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than only 10% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 10% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 14% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Oak Beach
A household needs to earn about $131,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Oak Beach home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $95,258, 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 Oak Beach's effective rate of 1.35%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Who lives in Oak Beach
Oak Beach 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 Oak Beach.
Who works in Oak Beach, and how
Work in Oak Beach centers on professional & technical and manufacturing. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 82%
- Work from home 9%
- Transit, walk, or bike 10%
Life in Oak Beach
The coast is about 3 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Oak Beach, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Oak Beach, month by month
Oak Beach sees roughly 74 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 86 degrees. January highs sit near 44, with lows near 26. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, and August through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 44° | 35° | 26° |
| April | 62° | 51° | 42° |
| July | 86° | 77° | 69° |
| October | 69° | 59° | 50° |
Flying in and out of Oak Beach
The nearest airport, Long Island MacArthur, is about 14 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is John F Kennedy International, about 26 miles away.
The best schools in and around Oak Beach
Schools across Oak Beach average an A+, better than 99% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Babylon Memorial Grade SchoolA+ · 80% proficient
Top high schools
- Babylon Junior-senior High SchoolA+ · 86% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Oak Beach school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Oak Beach 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 Oak Beach against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Oak Beach
Is Oak Beach a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Oak Beach ranks 14,954th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on a strong job market, an educated workforce, and good schools, 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 Oak Beach expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $465,525. The overall cost of living runs about 32% above the national average. Set against a $95,258 median income, cost of living beats 40% of towns.
Is Oak Beach safe?
Oak Beach is safer than 16% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $486 per resident a year.
Compare Oak Beach with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Oak Beach. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Oak Beach 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.
Oak Beach detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Oak Beach: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Oak Beach: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Oak Beach: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Oak Beach: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Oak Beach 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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