Best PlacesPine Hill, NY Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Pine Hill, 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.
Pine Hill ranks 20,279th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on an educated workforce by a wide margin, and long commutes are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Pine Hill
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.
Pine Hill's strengths and weaknesses
Where Pine Hill ranks high
- Educational attainmentBetter than 98% of towns
- TransitBetter than 96% of towns
- Tree shadeBetter than 94% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than 94% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 90% of towns
Where Pine Hill ranks low
- Short commute45.9 minutes each way, better than only 2% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 2% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 9% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than only 10% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 10% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Pine Hill
A household needs to earn about $83,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Pine Hill home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $90,735, 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 Pine Hill's effective rate of 1.52%, 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 Pine Hill
Pine Hill 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 Pine Hill.
Who works in Pine Hill, and how
Work in Pine Hill centers on education and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 56%
- Work from home 33%
- Transit, walk, or bike 11%
Life in Pine Hill
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Pine Hill.
What the weather is like in Pine Hill, month by month
Pine Hill sees roughly 67 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 83 degrees. January highs sit near 35, with lows near 17. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 35° | 26° | 17° |
| April | 58° | 45° | 34° |
| July | 83° | 71° | 59° |
| October | 63° | 51° | 41° |
Flying in and out of Pine Hill
The nearest airport, New York Stewart International, is about 48 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Bradley International, about 93 miles away.
The best schools in and around Pine Hill
Schools across Pine Hill average a B+, better than 84% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Hunter Elementary SchoolB · 48% proficient
- Phoenicia Elementary SchoolD+ · 21% proficient
Top high schools
- Onteora High SchoolA+ · 88% proficient
- Hunter-tannersville Middle School High SchoolA− · 65% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Pine Hill school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Pine Hill 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 Pine Hill against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Pine Hill
Is Pine Hill a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Pine Hill ranks 20,279th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on an educated workforce, transit, and tree cover, and lowest on long commutes and an overheated housing market. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Pine Hill expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $289,530. The overall cost of living runs about 1% below the national average. Set against a $90,735 median income, cost of living beats 77% of towns.
Is Pine Hill safe?
Pine Hill is safer than 32% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $363 per resident a year.
Compare Pine Hill with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Pine Hill. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Pine Hill 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.
Pine Hill detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Pine Hill: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Pine Hill: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Pine Hill: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Pine Hill: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Pine Hill 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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