Floral Park, New York

Area Profile

16,169 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Floral Park, in Nassau County.

74out of 100
Area Score
Top 9% of 2,944 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 15% of 3,904 published cities75
SchoolsTop 30% of 2,668 published cities67
Growth1533rd of 2,973 published cities50
Housing affordability2422nd of 4,223 published cities76
ClimateTop 46% of 4,223 published cities71
Physical resilienceTop 12% of 4,182 published cities89
AccessTop 14% of 4,226 published cities99
Economic stabilityTop 6% of 4,226 published cities81
The quick read

Floral Park ranks in the top 15% of published city profiles for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 3.5% and median household income of $150,084.

Natural-hazard exposure is lower than in most comparable published city profiles, placing Floral Park in the top 12% for physical resilience.

A major airport is 7 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
16,169
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$150,084
Top 5% nationally
Density
11,379/sq mi
1.4 sq mi of land
Median age
43.5
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Nassau County
New York
Metro area
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ
Nearest major airport
JFK
7 mi · John F Kennedy Intl
Median home value
$789,600
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.5% is lower than 84% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment fell 0.5% over the past year, to 695,571 employed residents.

60% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 93% of measured US cities.

Household income is higher than at least 95% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$16,801$150,084Top 5%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$6,426$69,449Top 6%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate3.0%Bottom 15%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute36.5 minTop 13%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher59.8%Top 7%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment695,571Top 9%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-1.0%Bottom 33%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-0.5%Top 42%June 2026
Labor force720,719Top 9%June 2026
Labor force participation67.9%Top 24%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$86,310Top 17%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$61,430Top 19%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.3%Top 40%June 2026
Unemployment rate3.5%Bottom 16%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024154k144k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $150,084 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Home Health and Personal Care Aides644,700$39,680
Retail Salespersons202,080$38,280
Registered Nurses197,740$119,720
Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners183,030$42,840
General and Operations Managers177,850$157,000
Cashiers173,830$35,950

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes city-level labor data only for places of 25,000 or more. This is the figure for Nassau County, NY, which contains this city.

51% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 67% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 11.1 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
6
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
11.1
across all schools here
Math proficiency
51.5%
Top 43% in New York
Reading proficiency
67.4%
Top 35% in New York
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
SEWANHAKA HIGH SCHOOLSEWANHAKA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT1,57211.532%57%
FLORAL PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOLSEWANHAKA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT1,30813.052%72%
FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE SCHOOLFLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT90415.974%75%
JOHN LEWIS CHILDS SCHOOLFLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT67415.062%70%
PS 993NYC SPECIAL SCHOOLS - DISTRICT 756365.3
PS 191 MAYFLOWERNEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #2632710.958%71%

39.0% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against New York’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $2,243 takes 18% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 5.3 times median household income here, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Rent as a share of income
17.9%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
5.3×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$2,243
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$789,600
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income5.26Top 13%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate85.5%Top 30%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±2605,811Top 10%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$301$2,243Top 5%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$23,237$789,600Top 5%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income17.9%Bottom 45%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2.8%Bottom 18%2024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →
Development Momentum
50/ 100
Ranks 1533 of 2,973 published city profiles
Permitting is increasing — 2 consecutive years, measured from 2020 to 2025.

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

Population has fallen 1% since 2020, reaching 15,966 in 2024.

94% of recently permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes, so new supply is concentrated in apartments and condominiums rather than detached houses.

At 2.0 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
33
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
2.0
Bottom 47% nationally
Year over year
+200%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
93.9%
units in 5+ unit buildings
Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202416k16k
Census Population Estimates Program, July 1 of each year. These annual estimates are designed for year-over-year comparison, unlike the ACS five-year figure shown as this profile's population.
Housing units permitted per year
202020212022202320242025280.0
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

6 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 84°F and January a low of 26°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 43.3 inches, including 25.9 inches of snow.

Air quality measures a median index of 31, in the Good band, and no day in the year passed 100.

20°40°60°80°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station NEW YORK JFK INTL AP, 6.5 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.1"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index54.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation43.3"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall25.9"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low26°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high84°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months61991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10002024 calendar year
Median air quality index31.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing43°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
31
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
54
90th percentile index
Days above 100
0
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

89 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are earthquake, hurricane and coastal flooding.

Coastal floodingElevated
Ice stormModerate
EarthquakeElevated
HurricaneModerate
LandslideModerate

Low or minimal exposure: winter weather, inland flooding, strong wind, lightning, heat wave, cold wave, tornado, wildfire, hail, drought.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Nassau County records 0.7 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, lower than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 2.0 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 8.0 per 100,000 residents in Nassau County.

Homicide
0.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
2.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
8.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
6.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Nassau County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around Floral Park rather than Floral Park itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

5 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 7 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
John F Kennedy IntlJFK7 mi14,511 ft
Newark Liberty IntlEWR24 mi9,999 ft
New York Stewart IntlSWF58 mi11,817 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Other cities in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
New YorkNew York County8,483,84464vs Floral Park
NewarkEssex County310,17849vs Floral Park
Jersey CityHudson County294,07861vs Floral Park
YonkersWestchester County209,97862vs Floral Park
PatersonPassaic County158,73543vs Floral Park
ElizabethUnion County137,30253vs Floral Park
Toms RiverOcean County94,956vs Floral Park
CliftonPassaic County89,37961vs Floral Park
New RochelleWestchester County82,76966vs Floral Park
Mount VernonWestchester County72,42756vs Floral Park
BayonneHudson County71,55354vs Floral Park
East OrangeEssex County70,09050vs Floral Park

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

ZIP codes in Floral Park

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
1100125,493$150,00075