Hampton Bays, New York

Area Profile

15,706 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Hampton Bays, in Suffolk County.

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How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 20% of 3,904 cities measured72
Schools1808th of 2,668 cities measured38
Housing affordability2982nd of 4,223 cities measured67
Climate3023rd of 4,223 cities measured63
Physical resilienceTop 4% of 4,182 cities measured95
Access3888th of 4,226 cities measured63
Economic stability2970th of 4,226 cities measured49
The quick read

Hampton Bays ranks in the top 20% of published city profiles for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 3.6% and median household income of $134,216.

In the public schools here, 30% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 10.7 students for every teacher.

Natural-hazard exposure is lower than in most comparable published city profiles, placing Hampton Bays in the top 4% for physical resilience.

At a glance

Population
15,706
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$134,216
Top 7% nationally
Density
1,214/sq mi
12.9 sq mi of land
Median age
44.2
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Suffolk County
New York
Metro area
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ
Nearest major airport
JFK
68 mi · John F Kennedy Intl
Median home value
$735,400
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.6% is lower than 80% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment fell 0.5% over the past year, to 783,298 employed residents.

47% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 87% of measured US cities.

Household income is higher than at least 93% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$17,646$134,216Top 7%of 29,5732024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$8,355$69,956Top 6%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate7.9%Bottom 37%of 31,9002024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute36.7 minTop 12%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher47.2%Top 13%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Employment783,298Top 7%of 3,904June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-1.0%Bottom 32%of 3,903June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-0.5%Top 43%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force812,301Top 7%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force participation63.2%Top 41%of 31,9332024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$86,310Top 17%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Median annual wage$61,430Top 19%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.4%Top 36%of 3,904June 2026
Unemployment rate3.6%Bottom 20%of 3,904June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024134k104k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $134,216 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 Suffolk County, NY, which contains this city.

30% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 44% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 10.7 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
3
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
10.7
across all schools here
Math proficiency
29.7%
Bottom 26% in New York
Reading proficiency
43.9%
Bottom 19% in New York
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
HAMPTON BAYS HIGH SCHOOLHAMPTON BAYS UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT78412.4
HAMPTON BAYS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHAMPTON BAYS UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT65410.234%53%
HAMPTON BAYS MIDDLE SCHOOLHAMPTON BAYS UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT5709.324%34%

23.2% 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 $2,392 takes 21% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 5.5 times median household income here, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Rent as a share of income
21.4%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
5.5×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$2,392
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$735,400
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income5.48Top 12%of 28,4732024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate82.0%Top 37%of 31,8432024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±5398,794Top 7%of 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$500$2,392Top 4%of 23,4322024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$37,195$735,400Top 5%of 29,3422024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income21.4%Top 33%of 23,2012024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate31.2%Top 12%of 32,0012024 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 →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

5 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 81°F and January a low of 20°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 43.5 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 38, in the Good band, and about 6 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station WESTHAMPTN GABRESKI AP, 6.1 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.7"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index60.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation43.5"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low20°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high81°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10062024 calendar year
Median air quality index38.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing43°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
38
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
60
90th percentile index
Days above 100
6
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

95 / 100
Physical resilience

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

Coastal floodingElevated
HurricaneElevated
EarthquakeModerate
Heat waveModerate
LandslideModerate

Low or minimal exposure: winter weather, inland flooding, strong wind, lightning, ice storm, 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.

Suffolk County records 1.8 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 3.1 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 15.2 per 100,000 residents in Suffolk County.

Homicide
1.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
3.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
15.2
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
7.6
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 Suffolk 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 Hampton Bays rather than Hampton Bays 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

6 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 68 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
John F Kennedy IntlJFK68 mi14,511 ft
Bradley IntlBDL75 mi9,510 ft
Rhode Island TF Green IntlPVD82 mi8,700 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 Hampton Bays
NewarkEssex County310,17849vs Hampton Bays
Jersey CityHudson County294,07861vs Hampton Bays
YonkersWestchester County209,97862vs Hampton Bays
PatersonPassaic County158,73543vs Hampton Bays
ElizabethUnion County137,30253vs Hampton Bays
Toms RiverOcean County94,956vs Hampton Bays
CliftonPassaic County89,37961vs Hampton Bays
New RochelleWestchester County82,76966vs Hampton Bays
Mount VernonWestchester County72,42756vs Hampton Bays
BayonneHudson County71,55354vs Hampton Bays
East OrangeEssex County70,09050vs Hampton Bays

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)
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 Hampton Bays

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
1194615,819$133,918