Manhattan noise and liveability

New York City. Aircraft and road noise, affordability, crime, transport, air quality and flood risk, from published sources.

4.6Sky Score out of 10; on every score here, 10 is best

Quiet skies: 5.0 / 10
Affordability: 0.0 / 10Scored against New York's five boroughs, the only US prices held: not comparable with UK scores - 5 of 5 here by price, cheapest first
Growth: 6.8 / 10Price trend in cash terms, scaled among the 5 areas of this city, which is the whole of its currency pool - 5 of 5 here by trend, fastest-rising first
Liveability: 8.8 / 10

Noise and planes

Aircraft noise is moderate

Road noise is high

Air and flood

Air quality is poor

Flood risk is medium

Living here

Recorded crime

95 recorded offences per 1,000 residents a year.

Transport access is excellent

Healthcare access is excellent

Property

Price trend

+2.0% year on year

See it on the map. Noise contours, flight corridors and every neighbourhood in New York City.

Open Manhattan on the Sky Score map

Where these numbers come from

Borough metadata: curated from public New York City sources; Crime: NYPD CompStat-derived offence rates per 1,000, against New York City population denominators; Prices: curated New York borough median sale prices, in USD; Aviation noise context: ESTIMATED from the FAA routes of JFK, LaGuardia, Newark and Teterboro, fitted to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey noise-monitor readings for January-July 2026; NOT a measurement at this address; Borough aircraft band: the same estimate averaged over residents by 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Area, weighted by US Census Bureau ACS 2020-2024 population (public domain); Licence note: Open Government Licence v3.0 covers UK Crown copyright and does NOT apply to any data in this response; Flight routes: FAA Coded Instrument Flight Procedures, derived by Sky Score for the aircraft noise estimate; supplied "as is", without warranty, and not for navigation; Runway use: counted by Sky Score from aircraft positions via adsb.lol (ODbL 1.0), 2026-01-01 to 2026-07-30; the counts are offered under the ODbL

Methodology version 5.7. Full method: the methodology (and the API reference). Figures are for the whole borough; a single address can differ, and the map shows postcode-level detail.