Best PlacesRoslyn Heights, NY Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Roslyn Heights, 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.
Roslyn Heights ranks 1,152nd of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on good schools by a wide margin, and noise is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Roslyn Heights
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.
Roslyn Heights' strengths and weaknesses
Where Roslyn Heights ranks high
- School gradeA+, better than 99% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 99% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than 99% of towns
- Household income$179,336 median, better than 99% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than 99% of towns
Where Roslyn Heights ranks low
- QuietBetter than only 1% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 3% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,476 a month, better than only 4% of towns
- Short commute39.8 minutes each way, better than only 6% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 7% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Roslyn Heights
A household needs to earn about $336,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Roslyn Heights home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $179,336, 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 Roslyn Heights' effective rate of 1.67%, 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 Roslyn Heights
Roslyn Heights 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 Roslyn Heights.
Who works in Roslyn Heights, and how
Work in Roslyn Heights centers on health care & social and professional & technical. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 71%
- Work from home 16%
- Transit, walk, or bike 13%
Life in Roslyn Heights
The coast is about 11 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Roslyn Heights, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Roslyn Heights, month by month
Roslyn Heights sees roughly 69 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 Roslyn Heights
Laguardia sits about 12 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 Roslyn Heights
Schools across Roslyn Heights average an A+, better than 99% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- North Side SchoolA+ · 95% proficient
Top middle schools
- Willets Road SchoolA+ · 90% proficient
- Roslyn Middle SchoolA+ · 84% proficient
- Herricks Middle SchoolA+ · 79% proficient
Top high schools
- Herricks High SchoolA+ · 99% proficient
- Roslyn High SchoolA+ · 98% proficient
- Wheatley SchoolA+ · 91% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Roslyn Heights school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Roslyn Heights 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 Roslyn Heights against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Roslyn Heights
Is Roslyn Heights a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Roslyn Heights ranks 1,152nd of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on good schools, big-city access, and population health, and lowest on noise 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 Roslyn Heights expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $1,148,157. The overall cost of living runs about 47% above the national average. Set against a $179,336 median income, cost of living beats 92% of towns.
Is Roslyn Heights safe?
Yes, Roslyn Heights is safer than 70% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $247 per resident a year.
Compare Roslyn Heights with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Roslyn Heights. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Roslyn Heights 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.
Roslyn Heights detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Roslyn Heights: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Roslyn Heights: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Roslyn Heights: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Roslyn Heights: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Roslyn Heights 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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