Best PlacesSeager, NY Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Seager, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Several measures below read low, and the ranked lists name which ones. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Seager ranks 27,763rd of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on an educated workforce by a wide margin, and long commutes are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Seager
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.
Seager's strengths and weaknesses
Where Seager ranks high
- Educational attainmentBetter than 96% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than 96% of towns
- Tree shadeBetter than 94% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 91% of towns
- QuietBetter than 91% of towns
Where Seager ranks low
- Short commute47.2 minutes each way, better than only 1% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than only 2% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than only 3% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 8% of towns
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 9% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Seager
A household needs to earn about $91,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Seager home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $76,410, 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 Seager's effective rate of 1.62%, 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 Seager
Seager 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 Seager.
Who works in Seager, and how
Work in Seager centers on education and professional & technical. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 57%
- Work from home 27%
- Transit, walk, or bike 16%
Life in Seager
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Seager.
What the weather is like in Seager, month by month
Seager sees roughly 62 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 Seager
The nearest airport, New York Stewart International, is about 46 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Laguardia, about 96 miles away.
The best schools in and around Seager
Schools across Seager average a B+, better than 85% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Livingston Manor Elementary SchoolA+ · 75% proficient
Top high schools
- Livingston Manor High SchoolA · 70% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Seager school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Seager 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 Seager against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Seager
Is Seager a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Seager ranks 27,763rd of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on an educated workforce, health care access, and tree cover, and lowest on long commutes and an overheated housing market. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Seager expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $311,995. The overall cost of living runs about 3% above the national average. Set against a $76,410 median income, cost of living beats 54% of towns.
Is Seager safe?
Seager is safer than 48% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $310 per resident a year.
Compare Seager with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Seager. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Seager 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.
Seager detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Seager: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Seager: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Seager: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Seager: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Seager 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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