Best PlacesPond Eddy, NY Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Pond Eddy, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Local pay runs high here, and housing takes the biggest bite out of it. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Pond Eddy ranks 8,071st of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on heat safety by a wide margin, and cell coverage ranks lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Pond Eddy
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.
Pond Eddy's strengths and weaknesses
Where Pond Eddy ranks high
- Heat safetyBetter than 98% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 96% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 96% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 95% of towns
- Tree shadeBetter than 94% of towns
Where Pond Eddy ranks low
- Cell coverageBetter than only 5% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 8% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than only 10% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 10% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 11% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Pond Eddy
A household needs to earn about $102,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Pond Eddy home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $114,806, 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 Pond Eddy's effective rate of 1.53%, 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 Pond Eddy
Pond Eddy 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 Pond Eddy.
Who works in Pond Eddy, and how
Work in Pond Eddy centers on admin & support services and construction. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 74%
- Work from home 16%
- Transit, walk, or bike 10%
Life in Pond Eddy
Pond Eddy has more restaurants and bars per resident than 99% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Pond Eddy and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Pond Eddy, month by month
Pond Eddy sees roughly 71 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 Pond Eddy
The nearest airport, New York Stewart International, is about 39 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Newark Liberty International, about 64 miles away.
The best schools in and around Pond Eddy
Schools across Pond Eddy average a B+, better than 80% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- George Ross Mackenzie Elementary SchoolB · 50% proficient
Top high schools
- Eldred Junior-senior High SchoolB+ · 58% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Pond Eddy school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Pond Eddy 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 Pond Eddy against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Pond Eddy
Is Pond Eddy a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Pond Eddy ranks 8,071st of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on heat safety, what local pay buys, and big-city access, and lowest on cell coverage 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 Pond Eddy expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $354,709. The overall cost of living runs about 6% below the national average. Set against a $114,806 median income, cost of living beats 96% of towns.
Is Pond Eddy safe?
Yes, Pond Eddy is safer than 83% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $205 per resident a year.
Compare Pond Eddy with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Pond Eddy. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Pond Eddy 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.
Pond Eddy detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Pond Eddy: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Pond Eddy: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Pond Eddy: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Pond Eddy: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Pond Eddy 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.
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