Best PlacesOakmont, PA Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Oakmont, 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.
Oakmont ranks 3,950th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on health care access by a wide margin, and noise is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Oakmont
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.
Oakmont's strengths and weaknesses
Where Oakmont ranks high
- Healthcare accessBetter than 99% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than 99% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than 99% of towns
- TransitBetter than 98% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 98% of towns
Where Oakmont ranks low
- QuietBetter than only 6% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 8% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 19% of towns
- Cheap childcare$991 a month, better than only 25% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 27% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Oakmont
A household needs to earn about $111,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Oakmont home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $88,317, 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 Oakmont's effective rate of 1.62%, 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 Oakmont
Oakmont 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 Oakmont.
Who works in Oakmont, and how
Work in Oakmont centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 71%
- Work from home 24%
- Transit, walk, or bike 5%
Life in Oakmont
Oakmont has more restaurants and bars per resident than 81% of towns and more parkland per resident than 96% of towns. Dining, parks, and nightlife concentrates in some parts of Oakmont and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Oakmont, month by month
Oakmont sees roughly 72 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 86 degrees. January highs sit near 40, with lows near 23. The comfortable stretch runs May through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 40° | 31° | 23° |
| April | 66° | 53° | 41° |
| July | 86° | 75° | 65° |
| October | 68° | 57° | 46° |
Flying in and out of Oakmont
Pittsburgh International sits about 21 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 4.8 million passengers in 2025, with 104 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Oakmont
Schools across Oakmont average an A−, better than 94% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Tenth Street El SchA+ · 95% proficient
- Verner El SchA+ · 90% proficient
Top high schools
- Riverview JshsB+ · 55% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Oakmont school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Oakmont 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 Oakmont against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Oakmont
Is Oakmont a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Oakmont ranks 3,950th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on health care access, walkability, and low disaster risk, and lowest on noise and property taxes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Oakmont expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $381,997. The overall cost of living runs about 12% above the national average. Set against a $88,317 median income, cost of living beats 56% of towns.
Is Oakmont safe?
Oakmont is safer than 54% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $242 per resident a year.
Compare Oakmont with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Oakmont. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Oakmont 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.
Oakmont detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Oakmont: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Oakmont: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Oakmont: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Oakmont: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Oakmont 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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