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Methodology

How Motley NYC works

Every dataset, what each score is made of, the weights, and where the numbers can mislead — including how much each score still rises with income.

Neighborhood scores computed October 28, 2026

01

Where our data comes from

Every dataset behind our scores and pages, who publishes it, the period it covers, and how often we refresh it. Where a release isn't recorded, we say when we downloaded it.

  • American Community Survey, 5-year estimates

    One-time load

    U.S. Census Bureau · 2018–2022

    Feeds: Family-Friendly Vibe (households with children); Affordability (median household income and home value); Neighborhood Character (diversity); Context figures on neighborhood pages.

    Census-tract estimates summed to neighborhoods with NYC Planning's 2020 tract-to-neighborhood file. Diversity uses table B03002 (Hispanic or Latino origin by race).

  • Neighborhood Tabulation Areas (2020)

    One-time load

    NYC Department of City Planning · 2020 boundaries

    Feeds: The 262 neighborhood areas every score is computed for.

  • PLUTO tax-lot data

    One-time load

    NYC Department of City Planning · Downloaded March 2026

    Feeds: Family-Friendly Vibe (housing density); Affordability (assessed value per square foot); Neighborhood Character (building ages); Things to Do (where the homes are); Near a playground (the homes counted).

  • School locations and attendance zones

    One-time load

    NYC Department of Education · Downloaded March 2026

    Feeds: School Quality (which schools serve an area); Family-Friendly Vibe (schools nearby); Zoned-school lookups.

    Districts 1, 7 and 23 have no attendance zones, so for every area we also count the schools located inside it.

  • New York State ELA and math tests, grades 3–8

    Each school year

    NYS Education Department, via the NYC Department of Education · Newest year: 2025

    Feeds: School ratings; School Quality.

  • NYC School Quality Reports — high school graduation and Regents results

    Each school year

    NYC Department of Education · Newest year: 2025

    Feeds: High school ratings; School Quality.

  • NYC School Survey — family responses

    Each school year

    NYC Department of Education · 2025

    Feeds: Family satisfaction on school pages; School Quality.

  • Class size report

    Each school year

    NYC Department of Education · Loaded April 2026

    Feeds: School Quality (class size); Class size on school pages.

    We use the district average for every school in a district.

  • School demographic snapshot

    Each school year

    NYC Department of Education · Loaded April 2026

    Feeds: Student diversity and economic need on school pages; School collections.

  • MySchools and high school directory admissions data

    Each school year

    NYC Department of Education · Latest published directories

    Feeds: Seats and applicants per seat on school pages; Competitiveness bands; High school programs with room.

    The seats and applicant counts are the city's. The competitiveness bands built on them are ours.

  • NYPD complaint data (felonies and misdemeanors)

    One-time load

    NYPD, via NYC Open Data · Two years to March 2026

    Feeds: Peace of Mind.

  • Motor vehicle collisions (pedestrians and cyclists injured)

    One-time load

    NYPD, via NYC Open Data · Two years to March 2026

    Feeds: Peace of Mind.

  • Housing maintenance code violations, Class C (immediately hazardous)

    One-time load

    NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development · Two years to March 2026

    Feeds: Peace of Mind.

  • NYC Community Air Survey (fine particles, PM2.5)

    One-time load

    NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · Latest annual mean, loaded March 2026

    Feeds: Air & Child Health.

    Published by community district; each neighborhood takes its district's value.

  • Children with elevated blood lead levels

    One-time load

    NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · Latest year, loaded March 2026

    Feeds: Air & Child Health.

    Published for 42 health neighborhoods (UHF42). 99 of our 262 areas match one; the rest take their borough's average.

  • Asthma emergency department visits

    One-time load

    NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · Latest year, loaded March 2026

    Feeds: Air & Child Health.

    Applied as a borough average, so it doesn't separate neighborhoods within a borough.

  • Commercial places listings

    One-time load

    A licensed places-data provider · Pulled April 2026

    Feeds: Things to Do; Affordability (local price levels); Places on neighborhood pages.

    Kids' activities, food, groceries, pharmacies and health care.

  • Transit schedules (GTFS) and street network

    When the schedule changes

    MTA, NYC DOT (Staten Island Ferry), NYC Ferry; streets © OpenStreetMap contributors · Schedules of August 27, 2026

    Feeds: Getting Around; Commute times; Weekly family travel.

    Weekday trips leaving 7:30–9:00 a.m. from each neighborhood's population-weighted center (U.S. Census 2020 tract centers). We check the MTA schedule monthly and re-run when it changes.

  • Subway stations and bus stops

    One-time load

    MTA, via data.ny.gov · Downloaded March 2026

    Feeds: Stop counts on neighborhood pages.

  • Playgrounds with dedicated children's areas

    One-time load

    NYC Department of Parks & Recreation · Downloaded October 2026

    Feeds: The Best fit “Near a playground” factor; Playground counts on neighborhood pages.

    1,012 playgrounds, each mapped at its center. Not used in any score.

  • Rental and sale listings

    Monthly

    Public listing sites · Latest pull: October 8, 2026

    Feeds: Median asking rent and sale price on neighborhood pages; The affordable-neighborhoods collection.

    Asking prices, not what people pay. Not used in any score.

02

How we score neighborhoods

We score the 197 residential neighborhoods: at least 1,000 residents, and not an institution (Rikers Island and Randall's Island are excluded). The other 65 areas — parks, cemeteries, airports — aren't scored.

Each score is a percentile: 0 is the lowest of the residential neighborhoods and 100 the highest. Neighborhoods with equal values share a rank. A missing input is left out and the remaining weights are rescaled; it isn't read as zero.

Family Fit

One number for how well a neighborhood fits a family, on our default weights.

20%
Family-Friendly Vibe
20%
School Quality
15%
Affordability
11%
Getting Around
17%
Peace of Mind
17%
Air & Child Health

A weighted average of the six scores below. If one is missing for a neighborhood, the others are rescaled; if less than 50% of the weight is present, we don't show a Family Fit. Neighborhood Character is still scored and shown, but isn't part of Family Fit; the weights above are the other six, rescaled to add to 100% and rounded.

Direction: Higher is a better overall fit on our default weights.

  • The default weights are our judgment. Set your own with “Best fit” on the neighborhoods page.
  • It inherits every limit of the six scores it averages.

Changed in Scores v2: Built from the corrected scores below and ranked against residential neighborhoods only.

Family-Friendly Vibe

How many families with children live here, and how many homes and schools surround them.

50%
Share of households with children under 18 — U.S. Census Bureau
25%
Homes per acre — NYC Department of City Planning
25%
Schools zoned to the area, up to 10 — NYC Department of Education

A weighted sum of the three, then ranked.

0.50 × (% of households with children) + 0.25 × (homes per acre) + 0.25 × (min(zoned schools ÷ 10, 1) × 100)

Direction: Higher means more households with children, more homes and more schools nearby. Weight in Family Fit: 20%.

  • Homes per acre isn't capped, so in the densest neighborhoods it outweighs the other two inputs.

Changed in Scores v2: Inputs unchanged; now ranked against residential neighborhoods only.

Affordability

How affordable a neighborhood is, read from how wealthy it is.

40%
Assessed value per square foot of land — NYC Department of City Planning
20%
Price level of local businesses (1–4) — A licensed places-data providerAt the top price level. With no priced businesses, assessed value takes 60%.
25%
Median household income, up to $150,000 — U.S. Census Bureau
15%
Median home value, up to $1.5 million — U.S. Census Bureau

A wealth signal from the four inputs, ranked, then turned upside down: Affordability = 100 − the wealth percentile.

Wealth = A × (0.40 + 0.05 × P + 0.25 × min(income ÷ $150,000, 1) + 0.15 × min(home value ÷ $1,500,000, 1)), where A is the average assessed value per square foot of lot and P the average price level (1–4) of local businesses. With no priced businesses, 0.40 + 0.05 × P becomes 0.60.

Direction: Higher means more affordable. Weight in Family Fit: 15%.

  • It's a wealth signal turned upside down, not a price. The rent on our neighborhood pages comes from listings and isn't part of any score.
  • Lower-income neighborhoods score as more affordable by construction.

Changed in Scores v2: Renamed from “Cost of Living”: higher always meant more affordable, which the old name read backwards. Inputs unchanged; ranked against residential neighborhoods only.

School Quality

How strong and how available the public and charter schools serving a neighborhood are.

50%
Average school rating — NYS Education Department, via the NYC Department of Education, NYC Department of EducationEach school's rating on the grades it serves: grades 3–8 ELA and math, or high-school graduation and Regents results (a 6–12 school averages the two).
15%
Family satisfaction (NYC School Survey) — NYC Department of Education
15%
Class size (smaller is better) — NYC Department of Education
20%
How many schools serve the area, up to 10 — NYC Department of Education

The schools serving an area are the public and charter K-12 schools zoned to it or located in it. Each input is ranked against the residential neighborhoods first, then weighted, so a big count of schools can't outvote their results.

Direction: Higher means stronger, more available schools. Weight in Family Fit: 20%.

  • State-test proficiency rises with family income across the city, so this score still does too — see the correlation table below.
  • Elementary, middle and high schools all count, each on its own rating; the two ratings come from different exams, so an area's mix of schools moves the average.
  • Class size is a district average, the same for every school in a district.
  • Private schools aren't counted: they publish no comparable results.

Changed in Scores v2: School inputs only. Removed: the share of adults with a bachelor's degree (20%), enrichment businesses (15%) and private schools nearby (5%). It also counts schools located in an area, so neighborhoods in districts 1, 7 and 23, which have no attendance zones, no longer read as having no schools.

Neighborhood Character

The age and consistency of a neighborhood's housing.

70%
Share of buildings built before 1980 — NYC Department of City Planning
30%
How uniform building ages are — NYC Department of City Planning1 − (standard deviation of year built ÷ 50), floored at 0.

A weighted average of the inputs, then ranked.

Direction: Higher means older, more uniform housing. Weight in Family Fit: none.

  • Older, uniform housing isn't better for every family; turn its weight down if it doesn't matter to you.

Changed in Scores v2: Removed homeownership (25%) and low poverty (15%), and took Character out of Family Fit.

Getting Around

How quickly you can reach the city's main job centers by transit on a weekday morning.

100%
Typical transit time to the 3 nearest of 10 job centers — MTA, NYC DOT (Staten Island Ferry), NYC Ferry; streets © OpenStreetMap contributorsThe job centers: Midtown, Lower Manhattan, Hudson Yards, Union Square / Flatiron, Upper East Side medical corridor, Downtown Brooklyn, Long Island City, Jamaica, Flushing, Fordham.

For each job center we take the typical (median) trip leaving 7:30–9:00 a.m., keep the 3 closest and use the middle one. A center more than 2 hours away counts as 2 hours. Fewer minutes rank higher.

Direction: Higher means shorter trips to job centers. Weight in Family Fit: 11%.

  • Schedule-based: no delays or crowding, and not step-free routing.
  • Measured from each neighborhood's population-weighted center, so homes at its edges can be closer or farther.
  • It measures reaching job centers, not getting around within the neighborhood.

Changed in Scores v2: Replaces a count of subway stations and bus stops per square mile, which rewarded density whether or not the stops went where a family needs to go.

Peace of Mind

How often serious incidents are reported in a neighborhood.

45%
Felony and misdemeanor complaints — NYPD, via NYC Open Data
30%
Pedestrians and cyclists injured in crashes — NYPD, via NYC Open Data
25%
Immediately hazardous housing violations — NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development

Two years of each count, divided by thousands of residents, weighted and ranked. More incidents rank lower.

Direction: Higher means fewer reported incidents. Weight in Family Fit: 17%.

  • Reported incidents only, and reporting rates differ between neighborhoods.
  • Incidents are counted where they happen, so areas with many visitors and few residents score lower.
  • Two years of data, loaded March 2026.

Changed in Scores v2: Ranked against residential neighborhoods only: parks and cemeteries used to top this score because almost nobody lives there. A neighborhood with no data is now unscored rather than scored 100.

Air & Child Health

Air quality and two measures of children's health tied to the environment.

40%
Fine particles in the air (PM2.5) — NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
35%
Children with elevated blood lead levels — NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
25%
Asthma emergency visits — NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

A weighted sum of the three, ranked. More pollution and more cases rank lower.

Direction: Higher means cleaner air and fewer children affected. Weight in Family Fit: 17%.

  • Air quality is published by community district; each neighborhood takes its district's value.
  • Lead is published for 42 health neighborhoods; 99 of our 262 areas match one, and the rest take their borough's average.
  • Asthma visits are a borough average, so a quarter of this score doesn't separate neighborhoods within a borough.

Changed in Scores v2: Ranked against residential neighborhoods only; a neighborhood with no data is unscored rather than scored 100.

Things to Do

How many places families use are within a 10-minute walk of home.

100%
Places within a 10-minute walk of the average home — A licensed places-data provider, NYC Department of City PlanningActive listings for kids' activities, restaurants and coffee shops. Groceries, health care, daycare, shops and other listings aren't counted, and a place listed twice counts once. Parks are their own measure.

For each home, the places within 615 m in a straight line (about a 10-minute walk on real streets), across the neighborhood line too; averaged over the neighborhood's homes, then ranked. Not divided by population.

Direction: Higher means more places within a short walk.

  • It counts places, not how good they are.
  • It measures walking, so areas where families drive to things score lower.
  • Places outside New York City aren't in our data, so homes near the city line count fewer.
  • The places were pulled once, in April 2026.

Changed in Scores v2: Ranked against residential neighborhoods only. Not part of Family Fit, as before. It used to count places per 1,000 homes, which ranked thinly settled areas with one shopping strip near the top; since October 2026 it counts what's within a walk.

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Family Fit, and how to set your own weights

Family Fit averages the sixscores at the weights above. Those defaults are our judgment, not a truth about your family. On the neighborhoods page, “Best fit” ranks the residential neighborhoods by your own weights — a saved template, your ranked priorities, or weights you set by hand, or the order you put the scores in on the page — and can add a commute to a job center and your family's weekly travel; filters leave out neighborhoods above a median rent or home price. A ranking from Motley Intelligence or a shared link can also count how close homes are to a playground. Any ranking can be shared as a link.

Rank neighborhoods by your weights →

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How we rate schools

Every school is rated on the grades it serves, out of 100. Bands are Motley's thresholds on a 0–100 scale, not New York State performance levels.

  • Elementary and middle schools:the average of the school's proficiency on the New York State ELA and math tests, grades 3–8.
  • High schools:the average of three NYC School Quality Report measures, a third each — the four-year graduation rate; the share of students who took the English Regents and scored 70 or higher (college ready); and the Regents completion rate, the share of the Regents exams still needed for a diploma that 2nd- to 4th-year students passed that year. We don't use the Algebra I Regents: strong students pass it in middle school, so the high-school takers aren't a fair sample.
  • A school serving grades 6–12 has both ratings. High-school lists use the high-school rating; the two come from different exams, so we don't treat them as the same measurement.
  • Transfer high schools and District 75 and 79 programs aren't rated: the city doesn't report the same measures for them.
  • Private schools aren't rated: they don't publish comparable results.
  • School pages also show the 2025 NYC School Survey's family results — what families at the school said, in their own ratings.
  • The competitiveness band is Motley's own, not a DOE or city rating: more than 5 applicants per seat = 'Highly Competitive', 2–5 = 'Competitive', up to 2 = 'Accessible'.

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What's computed, and what's written

  • Every score on this page is arithmetic over the datasets above. No language model writes or adjusts a number.
  • Smart Match ranks schools with a fixed formula over your sliders. A language model writes the explanation of the ranking; it doesn't set the ranking.
  • The competitiveness bands (Accessible, Competitive, Highly Competitive) are our thresholds on the city's applicant counts, not a DOE rating.
  • Motley Intelligence, our chat, answers from these same numbers through fixed tools; it can't change a score.

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Commute and family travel

Weekday-morning transit and walking, leaving between 7:30 and 9:00 a.m., from the population-weighted center of a neighborhood. Each time is a range, from the median trip to the 75th percentile, depending on when you leave. Schedule-based: no delays or crowding, and not step-free routing.

We compute trips from each residential neighborhood to 10 job centers (Midtown, Lower Manhattan, Hudson Yards, Union Square / Flatiron, Upper East Side medical corridor, Downtown Brooklyn, Long Island City, Jamaica, Flushing, Fordham) and to every other neighborhood. Trips over two hours aren't stored. Schedules come from the MTA, NYC DOT (Staten Island Ferry) and NYC Ferry; streets © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Weekly family travel: for each place your family goes (work, grandparents, childcare, school, activities — at the neighborhood level, not a street address), we count a round trip as twice the one-way time, times the trips a week you set. Typical uses the median trip; a bad week, the 75th percentile. A place with no stored time is left out and flagged rather than guessed.

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Near a playground

An optional factor in the Best fit ranking, not one of our scores: the share of a neighborhood's homes within a 10-minute walk of an NYC Parks playground. Homes are PLUTO's residential units, counted lot by lot, so a large park or an industrial edge doesn't count against the people who live there. A 10-minute walk is 615 meters in a straight line (80 meters a minute, with 30% added because streets don't run straight). Playgrounds are NYC Parks' list of playgrounds with dedicated children's areas.

In a ranking, the share itself is the factor's score — 93% of homes scores 93 — and you choose how much it counts. It blends in the same way as a commute, and all the factors together are capped at 80% of the ranking, so the seven scores always count. It doesn't change Family Fit or any score on a neighborhood page.

Across the 197 residential neighborhoods, the median is 93% of homes; 55 have every home within the walk and 14 have fewer than half. It mostly separates the outer boroughs: the median is 100% in Manhattan and the Bronx, 96% in Brooklyn, 82% in Queens and 57% on Staten Island.

It counts the city's NYC Parks list only. Playgrounds on the grounds of a housing development aren't in it — Co-op City, whose playgrounds are its own, reads 0% — and distance is a straight line, not a walking route.

08

Diversity

Our neighborhood diversity index measures how evenly residents spread across five census groups: Hispanic or Latino of any race, and non-Hispanic White, Black, Asian and all others. It's a Shannon index scaled to 0–1, from the American Community Survey 2018–2022, table B03002. Our earlier index used seven race-only groups and ignored Hispanic origin — misleading in a city where about 28% of residents are Hispanic or Latino. We replaced it in October 2026.

School diversity comes from the city's school demographic snapshot, which already counts Hispanic students as their own group.

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Collections

Each collection is named by the rule that picks it.

Zoned schools that beat their district while serving high-need students

  • A public zoned school serving some of grades K–8.
  • An Economic Need Index of 60 or more (the city's measure of how many students face economic hardship).
  • Average ELA and math proficiency on the New York State tests at least 10 points above its district's average.

Affordable family neighborhoods with a school that beats its district

  • A residential neighborhood.
  • Median asking rent below the median of residential neighborhoods.
  • A share of residents under 18 at or above the median of residential neighborhoods.
  • At least one zoned school that beats its district while serving high-need students, zoned to it or located in it.

Family neighborhoods where no single group is a majority

  • A residential neighborhood.
  • No census group makes up 50% or more of residents. The five groups: Hispanic or Latino of any race, and non-Hispanic White, Black, Asian and all others (American Community Survey 2018–2022, table B03002).
  • A share of residents under 18 at or above the median of residential neighborhoods.

High school programs with more seats per applicant

  • 2 or fewer applicants per seat, from the city's published seats and applicant counts.
  • Fewer applicants per seat means more room, not a better program.

Schools where no single group is a majority, and families rate them highly

  • No student group makes up 50% or more of enrollment (Asian, Black, Hispanic, White, multiracial and Native American, from the city's school demographics).
  • Family satisfaction on the 2025 NYC School Survey at or above the median of rated schools.
  • At least 30 family responses, so a tiny sample doesn't qualify.

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Where the data can mislead

How much each score rises with median household income across residential neighborhoods (Spearman's ρ: +1 rises in step with income, 0 no relation, −1 falls as income rises). Affordability is meant to fall as income rises.

ScoreScores v1Scores v2
Family Fit+0.55+0.48
Family-Friendly Vibe−0.07−0.07
Affordability−0.05−0.05
School Quality+0.72+0.48
Neighborhood Character+0.12+0.22
Getting Around−0.12+0.16
Peace of Mind+0.45+0.54
Air & Child Health+0.05+0.05
Things to Do+0.38+0.38
  • Safety counts reported incidents, and reporting rates differ between neighborhoods.
  • Census figures are 2018–2022 averages, so they lag a fast-changing neighborhood.
  • Rent is asking rent from listings, not what people pay.
  • Class size is a district average, the same for every school in a district.
  • Air quality is by community district, lead by health neighborhood, and asthma visits by borough — coarser than the neighborhoods we score.
  • Five broad census groups hide differences within a group: Caribbean and African American residents both count as Black, East and South Asian residents both as Asian.

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What Motley doesn't cover

  • Motley doesn't list apartments. Neighborhood costs come from asking rents.
  • Motley doesn't submit school applications.
  • Provider listings don't affect the order of any ranking on this page.

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Changelog

Scores v2 (October 16, 2026): what changed and who moved

Family Fit's correlation with median household income went from +0.55 to +0.48. 65 areas where almost nobody lives are no longer scored. Each score above says what changed in it.

Manhattan

  • East Harlem (South): Family Fit rank in Manhattan 25 → 11 (Peace of Mind +24, School Quality −17)
  • Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill: Family Fit rank in Manhattan 29 → 19 (Neighborhood Character +46, Getting Around −23)
  • Inwood: Family Fit rank in Manhattan 32 → 25 (Neighborhood Character +25, School Quality +24)
  • Morningside Heights: Family Fit rank in Manhattan 22 → 15 (Peace of Mind +33, Neighborhood Character +28)
  • Washington Heights (North): Family Fit rank in Manhattan 28 → 21 (Neighborhood Character +39, Getting Around −20)
  • Midtown-Times Square: Family Fit rank in Manhattan 18 → 29 (Neighborhood Character −56, School Quality −44)
  • Lower East Side: Family Fit rank in Manhattan 19 → 28 (School Quality −55, Neighborhood Character −46)
  • SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square: Family Fit rank in Manhattan 21 → 30 (Neighborhood Character −49, School Quality −47)
  • Hell's Kitchen: Family Fit rank in Manhattan 23 → 31 (School Quality −83, Neighborhood Character −40)
  • Tribeca-Civic Center: Family Fit rank in Manhattan 6 → 14 (Neighborhood Character −58, School Quality −27)

Bronx

  • Concourse-Concourse Village: Family Fit rank in Bronx 26 → 8 (Neighborhood Character −39, Getting Around −10)
  • Mount Eden-Claremont (West): Family Fit rank in Bronx 18 → 5 (Neighborhood Character −39, Getting Around −30)
  • University Heights (South)-Morris Heights: Family Fit rank in Bronx 17 → 6 (Neighborhood Character −55, Getting Around −30)
  • Mount Hope: Family Fit rank in Bronx 19 → 9 (Neighborhood Character −39, Getting Around −29)
  • Kingsbridge-Marble Hill: Family Fit rank in Bronx 10 → 1 (School Quality +49, Getting Around −39)
  • Westchester Square: Family Fit rank in Bronx 6 → 35 (School Quality −63, Getting Around −41)
  • Pelham Gardens: Family Fit rank in Bronx 9 → 26 (School Quality −39, Neighborhood Character −25)
  • Parkchester: Family Fit rank in Bronx 14 → 30 (Getting Around −64, School Quality −37)
  • Eastchester-Edenwald-Baychester: Family Fit rank in Bronx 3 → 17 (Neighborhood Character −45, School Quality −37)
  • Williamsbridge-Olinville: Family Fit rank in Bronx 7 → 21 (Neighborhood Character −41, Getting Around −30)

Brooklyn

  • Borough Park: Family Fit rank in Brooklyn 25 → 3 (Peace of Mind +37, School Quality +34)
  • Sunset Park (Central): Family Fit rank in Brooklyn 33 → 12 (Neighborhood Character +78, School Quality +29)
  • Crown Heights (South): Family Fit rank in Brooklyn 32 → 13 (Neighborhood Character +82, School Quality +29)
  • Ocean Hill: Family Fit rank in Brooklyn 44 → 25 (School Quality +40, Family-Friendly Vibe −11)
  • Sunset Park (East)-Borough Park (West): Family Fit rank in Brooklyn 45 → 26 (Neighborhood Character +56, Peace of Mind +24)
  • Madison: Family Fit rank in Brooklyn 7 → 36 (Neighborhood Character +73, Getting Around −45)
  • Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill: Family Fit rank in Brooklyn 11 → 35 (School Quality −50, Neighborhood Character +12)
  • Brighton Beach: Family Fit rank in Brooklyn 27 → 49 (School Quality −57, Neighborhood Character +45)
  • Midwood: Family Fit rank in Brooklyn 23 → 43 (Neighborhood Character +70, School Quality −55)
  • Gravesend (East)-Homecrest: Family Fit rank in Brooklyn 15 → 30 (Neighborhood Character +52, School Quality −32)

Queens

  • Queensboro Hill: Family Fit rank in Queens 44 → 18 (Getting Around +37, Neighborhood Character +26)
  • East Flushing: Family Fit rank in Queens 49 → 24 (Getting Around +31, Family-Friendly Vibe −23)
  • Corona: Family Fit rank in Queens 58 → 36 (Peace of Mind +37, Getting Around +22)
  • Elmhurst: Family Fit rank in Queens 28 → 6 (Getting Around +25, School Quality +19)
  • Astoria (Central): Family Fit rank in Queens 46 → 25 (Getting Around +36, Neighborhood Character +18)
  • Queens Village: Family Fit rank in Queens 1 → 41 (School Quality −63, Affordability +15)
  • Laurelton: Family Fit rank in Queens 18 → 50 (School Quality −28, Family-Friendly Vibe −21)
  • Cambria Heights: Family Fit rank in Queens 23 → 54 (School Quality −34, Getting Around −34)
  • St. Albans: Family Fit rank in Queens 5 → 27 (Getting Around −20, Family-Friendly Vibe −16)
  • Hollis: Family Fit rank in Queens 38 → 57 (School Quality −35, Family-Friendly Vibe −22)

Staten Island

  • Arden Heights-Rossville: Family Fit rank in Staten Island 11 → 6 (Neighborhood Character −79, School Quality +36)
  • Annadale-Huguenot-Prince's Bay-Woodrow: Family Fit rank in Staten Island 4 → 1 (Neighborhood Character −77, School Quality +37)
  • New Springville-Willowbrook-Bulls Head-Travis: Family Fit rank in Staten Island 10 → 8 (Neighborhood Character −78, Family-Friendly Vibe −20)
  • Oakwood-Richmondtown: Family Fit rank in Staten Island 7 → 5 (Neighborhood Character −57, Getting Around −32)
  • Rosebank-Shore Acres-Park Hill: Family Fit rank in Staten Island 15 → 13 (Neighborhood Character −67, School Quality −26)
  • West New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes Hill: Family Fit rank in Staten Island 2 → 10 (School Quality −61, Neighborhood Character −58)
  • New Dorp-Midland Beach: Family Fit rank in Staten Island 9 → 11 (Neighborhood Character −76, Getting Around −43)
  • Port Richmond: Family Fit rank in Staten Island 12 → 14 (Getting Around −75, Neighborhood Character −61)
  • St. George-New Brighton: Family Fit rank in Staten Island 14 → 16 (Getting Around −76, Neighborhood Character −57)
  • Tottenville-Charleston: Family Fit rank in Staten Island 5 → 7 (Neighborhood Character −71, Family-Friendly Vibe −19)