Best PlacesPoint Lookout, NY Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Point Lookout, 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.
Point Lookout ranks 23,067th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on big-city access by a wide margin, and car insurance costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Point Lookout
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.
Point Lookout's strengths and weaknesses
Where Point Lookout ranks high
- Big-city accessBetter than 99% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than 99% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than 99% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than 99% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 98% of towns
Where Point Lookout ranks low
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 2% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than only 3% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,476 a month, better than only 4% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than only 10% of towns
- Tree shadeBetter than only 12% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Point Lookout
A household needs to earn about $311,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Point Lookout home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $83,169, 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 Point Lookout's effective rate of 1.38%, 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 Point Lookout
Point Lookout 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 Point Lookout.
Who works in Point Lookout, and how
Work in Point Lookout centers on construction and hospitality & food. Unemployment is low, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 82%
- Work from home 8%
- Transit, walk, or bike 10%
Life in Point Lookout
The coast is about 0 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Point Lookout, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Point Lookout, month by month
Point Lookout sees roughly 68 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 87 degrees. January highs sit near 44, with lows near 27. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, September, and October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 44° | 35° | 27° |
| April | 63° | 51° | 43° |
| July | 87° | 77° | 70° |
| October | 70° | 60° | 51° |
Flying in and out of Point Lookout
John F Kennedy International sits about 11 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 31.0 million passengers in 2025, with 249 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Point Lookout
Schools across Point Lookout average an A, better than 98% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Lido Elementary SchoolA+ · 85% proficient
- West Elementary SchoolA+ · 83% proficient
- Mandalay SchoolA+ · 80% proficient
Top middle schools
- Shore Road SchoolA+ · 70% proficient
- Long Beach Middle SchoolA− · 57% proficient
- Seaford Middle SchoolB− · 40% proficient
Top high schools
- Seaford Senior High SchoolA+ · 98% proficient
- Long Beach High SchoolA+ · 92% proficient
- Freeport High SchoolA+ · 82% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Point Lookout school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Point Lookout 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 Point Lookout against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Point Lookout
Is Point Lookout a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Point Lookout ranks 23,067th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on big-city access, health care access, and fast internet, and lowest on car insurance costs and the cost of living against local pay. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Point Lookout expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $1,103,022. The overall cost of living runs about 72% above the national average. Set against a $83,169 median income, cost of living beats 3% of towns.
Is Point Lookout safe?
Point Lookout is safer than 35% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $348 per resident a year.
Compare Point Lookout with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Point Lookout. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Point Lookout 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.
Point Lookout detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Point Lookout: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Point Lookout: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Point Lookout: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Point Lookout: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Point Lookout 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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