Best PlacesRego Park, Queens, NY Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Rego Park, Queens, 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.
Rego Park, Queens ranks 1,356th of 5,983 U.S. neighborhoods on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on big-city access by a wide margin, and long commutes are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Rego Park, Queens
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.
Rego Park, Queens' strengths and weaknesses
Where Rego Park, Queens ranks high
- Big-city accessBetter than 99% of neighborhoods
- TransitBetter than 98% of neighborhoods
- WalkabilityBetter than 98% of neighborhoods
- Crime safetyBetter than 93% of neighborhoods
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 91% of neighborhoods
Where Rego Park, Queens ranks low
- Short commute44.5 minutes each way, better than only 1% of neighborhoods
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 1% of neighborhoods
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 5% of neighborhoods
- QuietBetter than only 13% of neighborhoods
- State infrastructureBetter than only 14% of neighborhoods
What it costs to buy a home in Rego Park, Queens
A household needs to earn about $142,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Rego Park, Queens home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $90,896, 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 Rego Park, Queens' effective rate of 0.69%, 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 Rego Park, Queens
Rego Park, Queens 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 Rego Park, Queens.
Who works in Rego Park, Queens, and how
Work in Rego Park, Queens centers on health care & social and professional & technical. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 25%
- Work from home 19%
- Transit, walk, or bike 57%
Life in Rego Park, Queens
Rego Park, Queens has more parkland per resident than 74% of neighborhoods. The coast is about 17 minutes away. That concentrates in some parts of Rego Park, Queens and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Rego Park, Queens, month by month
Rego Park, Queens sees roughly 70 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 90 degrees. January highs sit near 44, with lows near 29. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, September, and October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 44° | 36° | 29° |
| April | 65° | 53° | 45° |
| July | 90° | 80° | 72° |
| October | 70° | 61° | 54° |
Flying in and out of Rego Park, Queens
Laguardia sits about 3 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 16.3 million passengers in 2025, with 118 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Rego Park, Queens
Schools across Rego Park, Queens average a B+, better than 90% of neighborhoods.
Top elementary schools
- Brooklyn School Of InquiryA+ · 93% proficient
- Ps 174 William Sidney MountA+ · 83% proficient
- Ps 139 Rego ParkA+ · 75% proficient
Top middle schools
- Knowledge And Power Preparatory Academy ViC− · 28% proficient
Top high schools
- Professional Pathways High SchoolA− · 60% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Rego Park, Queens school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Rego Park, Queens 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 Rego Park, Queens against the other 5,982 neighborhoods.
Who Rego Park, Queens suits
Common questions about living in Rego Park, Queens
Is Rego Park, Queens a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Rego Park, Queens ranks 1,356th of 5,983 neighborhoods. It scores highest on big-city access, transit, and walkability, and lowest on long commutes and taxes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Rego Park, Queens expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $552,676. The overall cost of living runs about 23% above the national average. Set against a $90,896 median income, cost of living beats 43% of neighborhoods.
Is Rego Park, Queens safe?
Yes, Rego Park, Queens is safer than 93% of neighborhoods. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $230 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Rego Park, Queens?
July highs average about 90 degrees, and January highs near 44 with lows near 29. That works out to about 70 pleasant days a year, more than 24% of neighborhoods.
Is Rego Park, Queens good for families?
Schools beat 90% of neighborhoods, crime safety beats 93%, and childcare runs $1,344 a month.
Compare Rego Park, Queens with other neighborhoods
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Rego Park, Queens. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Rego Park, Queens 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.
Rego Park, Queens detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Rego Park, Queens: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Rego Park, Queens: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Rego Park, Queens: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Rego Park, Queens: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Rego Park, Queens 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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