Best PlacesWyandanch, NY Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Wyandanch, 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.
Wyandanch ranks 9,586th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on transit by a wide margin, and car insurance costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Wyandanch
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.
Wyandanch's strengths and weaknesses
Where Wyandanch ranks high
- TransitBetter than 99% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 99% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than 98% of towns
- BikingBetter than 96% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than 95% of towns
Where Wyandanch ranks low
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 1% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 2% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,476 a month, better than only 4% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than only 8% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 9% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Wyandanch
A household needs to earn about $165,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Wyandanch home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $126,330, 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 Wyandanch's effective rate of 2.15%, 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 Wyandanch
Wyandanch's age mix sits close to the national median, 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 Wyandanch.
Who works in Wyandanch, and how
Work in Wyandanch centers on health care & social and retail trade. Unemployment is low, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 78%
- Work from home 13%
- Transit, walk, or bike 9%
Life in Wyandanch
Wyandanch has more parkland per resident than 99% of towns. The coast is about 18 minutes away. That concentrates in some parts of Wyandanch and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Wyandanch, month by month
Wyandanch sees roughly 75 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 86 degrees. January highs sit near 44, with lows near 26. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, and August through October.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 44° | 35° | 26° |
| April | 62° | 51° | 42° |
| July | 86° | 77° | 69° |
| October | 69° | 59° | 50° |
Flying in and out of Wyandanch
The nearest airport, Long Island MacArthur, is about 14 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is John F Kennedy International, about 23 miles away.
The best schools in and around Wyandanch
Schools across Wyandanch average a B−, better than 72% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Vanderbilt Elementary SchoolA+ · 88% proficient
- Paumanok Elementary SchoolA+ · 88% proficient
- Signal Hill Elementary SchoolA+ · 86% proficient
Top middle schools
- Candlewood Middle SchoolA+ · 78% proficient
- West Hollow Middle SchoolA+ · 76% proficient
- Robert Moses Middle SchoolB− · 41% proficient
Top high schools
- Half Hollow Hills High School WestA+ · 99% proficient
- Half Hollow Hills High School EastA+ · 96% proficient
- North Babylon High SchoolA+ · 91% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Wyandanch school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Wyandanch 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 Wyandanch against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Wyandanch
Is Wyandanch a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Wyandanch ranks 9,586th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on transit, big-city access, and fast internet, and lowest on car insurance costs and property taxes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Wyandanch expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $532,988. The overall cost of living runs about 20% above the national average. Set against a $126,330 median income, cost of living beats 81% of towns.
Is Wyandanch safe?
Wyandanch is safer than 52% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $302 per resident a year.
Compare Wyandanch with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Wyandanch. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Wyandanch 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.
Wyandanch detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Wyandanch: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Wyandanch: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Wyandanch: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Wyandanch: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Wyandanch 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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