🏘️ NeighborhoodScout Scraper: US Home Values, Crime & Schools

NeighborhoodScout Scraper exports the public market data of neighborhoodscout.com as structured rows: median home value, rent, price appreciation, demographics, crime rates and school ratings for US states, cities, neighborhoods and single schools. Export CSV, Excel, JSON or XML with no login, no API key and no proxy.

The NeighborhoodScout Scraper by RecordsData turns the area pages of NeighborhoodScout into a dataset you can sort, filter and join. On 2026-10-26 the site's sitemap listed 51 states (District of Columbia included), 18,593 city places, 73,599 neighborhoods and 99,425 schools. A city row carries up to 63 columns, for example Worcester, MA: median home value $448,579, average rent $2,784, 5-year appreciation 53.72 percent, crime index 13, violent crime rate 5.87 per 1,000 residents. The dataset has 93 columns across the four record types. Every row is a place, not a property for sale.

🎯 What does the NeighborhoodScout scraper do?

• Scrapes state, city, neighborhood and school pages of neighborhoodscout.com and labels each row with recordType.
• Returns real estate figures: median home value, average market rent, housing units, homeownership and vacancy rate, share of single-family homes, share of homes built before 1940, and the mix of home values, ages, types and sizes.
• Returns price appreciation over the latest quarter, 1, 5 and 10 years and since 2000, with the site's 1 to 10 scores against the state and the nation.
• Adds demographics: population, median household and per capita income, poverty, education, jobs by industry, race and ethnicity, ancestry, languages, age groups and foreign-born share.
• Adds crime: the 1 to 100 crime index, violent and property crime counts and rates, state and national comparison, crimes per square mile, the odds of becoming a victim and the breakdown by offense.
• Adds schools: public school districts with ratings, the first schools of a city, and one full profile per school: address, grades, type, enrollment, teachers, students per teacher, rating against the state and the nation, enrollment by grade and group, test scores.
• Reads places from URLs, "City, ST" names, state codes or the whole country. A state or a city expands into its cities, neighborhoods or schools using the site's sitemap.
• Filters by name keyword, median home value range, minimum population and minimum school rating.

📊 NeighborhoodScout data: which fields do you get?

Every row is one place. A missing value means the site does not state it: the key is left out and never filled with a placeholder.

Field	Columns per row	Main fields
city, state rows	up to 63 (state rows 52)	medianHomeValue, averageRent, population, homeownershipRate, vacancyRate, appreciation1YearPct, appreciation5YearPct, crimeIndex, violentCrimeRate, propertyCrimeRate, medianHouseholdIncome, povertyRate, collegeGraduatePct, employmentIndustries, raceEthnicity, schoolDistricts, schools
neighborhood rows	25 to 26	name, zipCode, medianHomeValue, averageRent, vacancyRate, settingType, homeValuePercentileState, homeValuePercentileUs, incomePercentileUs, childPovertyRate, ancestry, languages, commuteDriveAlonePct
school rows	29 to 30	name, address, district, schoolType, gradesServed, studentsEnrolled, classroomTeachers, studentsPerTeacher, qualityVsState, qualityVsUs, enrollmentByGrade, enrollmentByGroup, testScores
All rows (common)	7	recordType, areaId, url, stateCode, dataUpdatedAt, sourceSite, scrapedAt

Fill rates on 56 live rows from six searches on 2026-10-26: city and state rows carry every column the site shows (offense breakdown on 12 of 13 cities). Neighborhood rows: price, vacancy, income rank and child poverty 100 percent, rent 95 percent, homes built before 1940 only 27 percent. School rows: address, enrollment and teachers 100 percent, ratings and test scores 94 percent.

🧾 NeighborhoodScout example: what does a real result look like?

A real city row (default settings, 2026-10-26; each list is shortened to two items):

{
  "recordType": "city",
  "areaId": "ma/worcester",
  "url": "https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ma/worcester",
  "name": "Worcester",
  "state": "Massachusetts",
  "stateCode": "MA",
  "zipCodes": ["01602", "01603"],
  "medianHomeValue": 448579,
  "averageRent": 2784,
  "housingUnits": 79501,
  "population": 211286,
  "homeValueLevelState": "Very Low",
  "homeValueLevelNation": "High",
  "homeownershipRate": 39.7,
  "vacancyRate": 7.4,
  "appreciation1YearPct": 2.68,
  "appreciation5YearPct": 53.72,
  "appreciation10YearPct": 114,
  "appreciationRates": [{ "period": "Last 12 Months", "from": "2024 Q4", "to": "2025 Q4", "totalPercent": 2.68, "annualPercent": 2.68, "scoreVsState": 3, "scoreVsUs": 4 }],
  "povertyRate": 19.6,
  "medianHouseholdIncome": 70102,
  "perCapitaIncome": 37221,
  "collegeGraduatePct": 35.2,
  "raceEthnicity": [{ "group": "White", "percent": 48.6 }, { "group": "Hispanic or Latino (Of Any Race)", "percent": 25.3 }],
  "crimeIndex": 13,
  "violentCrimeCount": 1240,
  "propertyCrimeCount": 3678,
  "violentCrimeRate": 5.87,
  "propertyCrimeRate": 17.41,
  "violentCrimeOneIn": 170,
  "schoolDistricts": [{ "name": "Worcester", "qualityVsState": 2, "qualityVsUs": 4 }],
  "schools": [{ "schoolId": "251323002197", "name": "Belmont Street Community School", "district": "Worcester", "address": "170 Belmont Street", "gradesServed": "PK-6" }],
  "dataUpdatedAt": "2026-03-31T14:42:18.000Z",
  "sourceSite": "neighborhoodscout.com",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-27T04:33:42.521Z"
}

How to read the numbers: prices and income are US dollars, rates are percent, and crime rates are per 1,000 residents. crimeIndex runs from 1 to 100 and 100 is the safest (Worcester at 13 is safer than 13 percent of US cities). The ...Percentile... fields on neighborhood rows are the share of neighborhoods with a lower value: homeValuePercentileUs 48 means the median home value is higher than in 48 percent of US neighborhoods. studentsPerTeacher is computed as studentsEnrolled divided by classroomTeachers. Dates are ISO 8601 in UTC.

🚀 How to scrape NeighborhoodScout in 4 steps

1. Create a free account at console.apify.com and open this Actor.
2. Type places as Worcester, MA, a state code such as TX, or paste neighborhoodscout.com URLs of a state, city, neighborhood or school. Leave places empty to walk the whole country in alphabetical order.
3. Pick the record types (state, city, neighborhood, school), switch the demographics, crime and school modules on or off, set Max Items and press Start. A 3-city run finishes in about 7 seconds.
4. Download the dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON or XML, or read it through the Apify API.

To list every neighborhood of a city, give the city and choose the neighborhood record type. Austin, TX has 258 neighborhoods and Houston, TX has 777 schools.

NeighborhoodScout scraper input

The form has 18 fields. The main ones:

Field	Type	Default	Meaning
locations	array	empty	Places such as Worcester, MA or a state code like TX; empty means the whole country
startUrls	array	empty	neighborhoodscout.com addresses of a state, city, neighborhood or school
states	array	empty	Whole states expanded through the sitemap
recordTypes	array	["city"]	state, city, neighborhood, school
maxItems	integer	10 in the prefill	Maximum rows (free plans: 10)
includeDemographics, includeCrime, includeSchools	boolean	true, true, false	Modules added to city and state rows
nameKeyword	string	empty	Name contains
minMedianHomeValue, maxMedianHomeValue	integer	none	Median home value range in USD
minPopulation, minSchoolRating	integer	none	Population and school rating 1 to 10
includeContactDetails	boolean	false	Public school phone numbers
onlyNew, stateKey, resetSeen	boolean, string	false	Monitor mode controls
maxRunSeconds	integer	3600	Run time limit

A minimal example run:

{
  "locations": ["Worcester, MA", "Austin, TX"],
  "recordTypes": ["city"],
  "includeDemographics": true,
  "includeCrime": true,
  "maxItems": 50
}

🔒 What is public on NeighborhoodScout and what is not?

NeighborhoodScout sells full neighborhood reports, so the Actor only reads what any visitor sees without an account:

• Public and returned: state and city pages (real estate, demographics, crime, schools), the narrative overview of each neighborhood, and every school profile.
• Behind the subscription and not returned: the detailed real estate, crime and demographics tabs of single neighborhoods. A neighborhood row therefore holds the headline numbers from its public overview (value, rent, vacancy, income rank, child poverty, ancestry, language, commute), not a full report.
• Never requested: zip code pages, because the site's robots.txt excludes them. Zip codes still appear as zipCodes on city rows and zipCode on neighborhood and school rows.
• City school lists show the first 10 schools of a city. Choose the school record type to get every school with a full profile. State pages carry no school data.

📈 How does NeighborhoodScout Scraper compare with alternatives? (read on 2026-10-29)

No Actor in the Apify Store targets neighborhoodscout.com: a search for "NeighborhoodScout" returned no dedicated rival, so there is no field-by-field comparison to make. The nearest references are other neighborhood-data sources, shown only as a price and coverage guide (their prices were read from the Store API on 2026-10-27).

Option	Price per 1,000 results	Data
RecordsData NeighborhoodScout Scraper	$22.00 area rows, $12.57 school rows, add-ons $9.43	93 columns, four record types, whole country through the sitemap, only-new mode
lexis-solutions AreaVibes scraper	$4.90	areavibes.com pages, 16 fields, no NeighborhoodScout figures
lexis-solutions CrimeGrade scraper	$10.00	crimegrade.org crime grades, 8 fields
parseforge Niche places-to-live scraper	$12.00 per place plus $4.00 per section	niche.com, 37 fields
Manual browsing of neighborhoodscout.com	Staff time	One place per page, no export

The 1 to 10 appreciation scores, the home value percentiles and the 1 to 100 crime index come from NeighborhoodScout only, so the others cannot replace it. They are cheaper per row because they carry fewer fields.

How much does the NeighborhoodScout Scraper cost?

Pay per event, no monthly fee. Rates are in USD per result on the Free tier. Five events exist:

Event	Charged for	Rate per result	Per 1,000
area-record	One state, city or neighborhood row	$0.022	$22.00
school-record	One school profile	$0.01257	$12.57
demographics-data	Add-on on a city or state row when the demographics module returns data	$0.00943	$9.43
crime-data	Add-on when the crime module returns data	$0.00943	$9.43
school-district-data	Add-on when the school districts module returns data	$0.00943	$9.43

Worked examples per 1,000 results: city rows with the default modules (demographics and crime) cost $22.00 + $9.43 + $9.43 = $40.86; adding school districts brings it to $50.29; city rows with every module off cost $22.00; school profiles cost $12.57. Error rows, empty searches and rows skipped by monitoring are charged $0.

💼 NeighborhoodScout scraper use cases

• Real estate investors: rank cities by appreciation5YearPct, homeownershipRate and vacancyRate, and screen markets by medianHomeValue against averageRent.
• Market analysts and researchers: build a state or city panel of prices, income, poverty and crime, and refresh it on a schedule.
• Relocation and housing platforms: add neighborhood value ranks, crime index and school ratings to a place page.
• Education analysts: collect school ratings, enrollment and test scores.

Monitor new places and repricing

Switch on Only new rows (monitor mode) and schedule the Actor. It remembers the places already delivered in a store of your own account and returns only unseen ones, so a repeat run with nothing new costs nothing.

🔌 NeighborhoodScout scraper API, MCP and integrations

Run it from any language through the Apify API:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/RecordsData~neighborhoodscout-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"locations":["Worcester, MA","Austin, TX"],"recordTypes":["city"],"includeCrime":true,"maxItems":50}'

Connect it to Make, Zapier or n8n with the standard Apify integrations.

NeighborhoodScout scraper MCP for AI agents

An AI agent (Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client) can call the Actor through the Apify MCP server at https://mcp.apify.com?tools=RecordsData/neighborhoodscout-scraper.

Example agent prompt: "Which Massachusetts cities have a median home value above 900,000 dollars? Return the first 10 with their crime index."

⚖️ Is it legal to scrape NeighborhoodScout? Limits and responsible use

The Actor reads only pages that NeighborhoodScout shows to every visitor, without logging in and without a key, at about two requests per second. It skips the paths that the site's robots.txt closes and never touches the paid reports. It returns facts about places, not about private persons. School phone numbers are public institution numbers and are only output when you switch on Include school phone numbers. Check the site terms before republishing commercially. You are responsible for deciding that your use of the data fits those terms and the law that applies to you.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I scrape NeighborhoodScout?

Open the Actor, type places such as Worcester, MA or a state code, pick the record types, set Max Items and press Start. When the run ends, download one row per place as CSV, Excel, JSON or XML, or read it through the Apify API. No proxy, login or key is needed, and a run of 3 cities finishes in about 7 seconds.

Is it legal to scrape NeighborhoodScout?

The Actor reads only pages shown to every visitor, without logging in, at about two requests per second, and skips the paths that robots.txt closes. Check the site terms before republishing commercially. You decide whether your use complies where you work, and you can ask the site owner for permission when unsure.

How much does a run cost?

Billing is per event: $0.022 per state, city or neighborhood row, $0.01257 per school profile, and $0.00943 for each add-on module that returns data (demographics, crime, school districts). A default city row with demographics and crime costs $0.04086, so 1,000 of them cost $40.86. Error rows and empty searches are never charged.

Does it need a proxy or an account?

No. It reads the public pages with plain requests, three at a time and about two per second. Test runs from the Apify cloud made 12 requests with none refused, retried or throttled. It needs no login and no API key, which keeps a 3-result run near 7 seconds.

How many places does NeighborhoodScout cover?

On 2026-10-26 the sitemap listed 51 states, 18,593 city places, 73,599 neighborhoods and 99,425 schools. Not every city place carries real estate figures (Adak, AK is one): a place without figures is skipped without a charge when found through the sitemap, and returns one free error row when you name it yourself.

What does the crime index mean?

crimeIndex is the site's 1 to 100 score where 100 is the safest. A score of 13 means the city is safer than 13 percent of US cities. The counts and rates next to it, such as violentCrimeRate per 1,000 residents, come from the same page, so you can compare cities of different size on equal terms.

Why do neighborhood rows have fewer fields than city rows?

The detailed neighborhood tabs (real estate, crime, demographics) are part of NeighborhoodScout's paid report, so the Actor never fetches them. A neighborhood row holds the headline numbers from the public overview: 25 to 26 columns against up to 63 for a city. City and state rows are complete.

How do I get only the new places every day?

Turn on Only new rows and schedule the Actor with the Apify scheduler. It remembers the places already delivered for the same search in a store of your own account and skips them without charge. Use Forget previously seen rows to start over, or a Monitor name to keep several searches apart.

Support

Questions, a missing field or a feature request: write to contact.punkrecordsdata@gmail.com or open the Issues tab of the Actor.

⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with NeighborhoodScout, Location, Inc. or Cotality; only publicly available data.

Last updated: 2026-10-29