Best PlacesQueens Village, NY Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Queens Village, 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.
Queens Village ranks 8,304th 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 Queens Village
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.
Queens Village's strengths and weaknesses
Where Queens Village ranks high
- Big-city accessBetter than 99% of towns
- TransitBetter than 99% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than 99% of towns
- School gradeA+, better than 99% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 98% of towns
Where Queens Village ranks low
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 1% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 1% of towns
- Short commute47.1 minutes each way, better than only 1% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,476 a month, better than only 4% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 6% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Queens Village
A household needs to earn about $160,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Queens Village home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $160,114, 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 Queens Village's effective rate of 1.70%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Who lives in Queens Village
Queens Village runs older than the country, and households here run larger than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Queens Village.
Who works in Queens Village, and how
Work in Queens Village centers on health care & social and construction. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 74%
- Work from home 10%
- Transit, walk, or bike 15%
Life in Queens Village
The coast is about 13 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Queens Village, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Queens Village, month by month
Queens Village 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 Queens Village
John F Kennedy International sits about 5 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 Queens Village
Schools across Queens Village average an A+, better than 99% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Ps 176 Cambria HeightsA+ · 83% proficient
- Dutch Broadway SchoolA · 70% proficient
- Gotham Avenue SchoolA · 65% proficient
Top high schools
- Elmont Memorial High SchoolA+ · 86% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Queens Village school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Queens Village 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 Queens Village against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Queens Village
Is Queens Village a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Queens Village ranks 8,304th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on big-city access, transit, and walkability, and lowest on car insurance costs and noise. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Queens Village expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $545,400. The overall cost of living runs about 36% above the national average. Set against a $160,114 median income, cost of living beats 86% of towns.
Is Queens Village safe?
Queens Village is safer than 14% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $493 per resident a year.
Compare Queens Village with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Queens Village. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Queens Village 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.
Queens Village detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Queens Village: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Queens Village: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Queens Village: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Queens Village: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Queens Village 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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