Best PlacesStewart Manor, NY Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Stewart Manor, 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.
Stewart Manor ranks 1,388th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on walkability by a wide margin, and car insurance costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Stewart Manor
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.
Stewart Manor's strengths and weaknesses
Where Stewart Manor ranks high
- WalkabilityBetter than 99% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 99% of towns
- TransitBetter than 99% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than 99% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 98% of towns
Where Stewart Manor ranks low
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 3% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,476 a month, better than only 4% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 4% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 6% of towns
- Short commute39.1 minutes each way, better than only 6% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Stewart Manor
A household needs to earn about $232,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Stewart Manor home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $140,080, 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 Stewart Manor's effective rate of 1.72%, 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 Stewart Manor
Stewart Manor runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Stewart Manor.
Who works in Stewart Manor, and how
Work in Stewart Manor centers on professional & technical and education. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 57%
- Work from home 19%
- Transit, walk, or bike 24%
Life in Stewart Manor
The coast is about 18 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Stewart Manor, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Stewart Manor, month by month
Stewart Manor sees roughly 67 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 Stewart Manor
John F Kennedy International sits about 7 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 Stewart Manor
Schools across Stewart Manor average an A+, better than 98% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Covert Avenue SchoolA+ · 78% proficient
- Stewart Manor SchoolA+ · 78% proficient
Top high schools
- Sewanhaka High SchoolA · 80% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Stewart Manor school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Stewart Manor 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 Stewart Manor against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Stewart Manor
Is Stewart Manor a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Stewart Manor ranks 1,388th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on walkability, big-city access, and transit, and lowest on car insurance costs and childcare costs. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Stewart Manor expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $787,268. The overall cost of living runs about 48% above the national average. Set against a $140,080 median income, cost of living beats 73% of towns.
Is Stewart Manor safe?
Stewart Manor is safer than 51% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $306 per resident a year.
Compare Stewart Manor with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Stewart Manor. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Stewart Manor 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.
Stewart Manor detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Stewart Manor: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Stewart Manor: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Stewart Manor: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Stewart Manor: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Stewart Manor 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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