10549Mount Kisco, New York

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 10549.

68out of 100
Area Score
Top 22% of 5,298 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 10% of 6,210 published ZIP areas78
Growth5088th of 5,428 published ZIP areas19
Housing affordability3591st of 6,685 published ZIP areas78
Climate4335th of 6,789 published ZIP areas65
Physical resilienceTop 16% of 6,709 published ZIP areas85
Access4608th of 6,791 published ZIP areas87
Economic stabilityTop 40% of 6,742 published ZIP areas65
The quick read

10549 ranks in the top 10% of published ZIP profiles for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 3.6% and median household income of $133,988.

Residential permitting has slowed: 2 units authorized over the past twelve months, 33% below the prior year.

Natural-hazard exposure is lower than in most comparable published ZIP profiles, placing 10549 in the top 16% for physical resilience.

At a glance

Population
16,135
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$133,988
Top 6% nationally
Density
845/sq mi
19.1 sq mi of land
Median age
41.6
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Mount Kisco
New York
Metro area
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ
Nearest major airport
SWF
29 mi · New York Stewart Intl
Median home value
$668,000
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 3.6% is lower than 83% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment grew 0.1% over the past year, to 521,503 employed residents.

65% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 95% of measured US ZIP areas.

Household income is higher than at least 94% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$29,844$133,988Top 6%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$7,485$80,531Top 4%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate7.0%Bottom 31%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute36.8 minTop 13%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher65.2%Top 5%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment521,503Top 10%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-0.6%Bottom 39%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)0.1%Top 28%June 2026
Labor force540,909Top 10%June 2026
Labor force participation64.4%Top 35%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$86,310Top 13%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$61,430Top 15%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.4%Top 36%June 2026
Unemployment rate3.6%Bottom 17%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024134k111k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $133,988 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 does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Mount Kisco, NY, the city containing this ZIP code.

There are 12.9 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
1
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
12.9
across all schools here
Math proficiency
2019-20 school year
Reading proficiency
2019-20 school year
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
MOUNT KISCO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBEDFORD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT50312.930%42%

56.5% 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 $1,571 takes 14% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 5.0 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
14.1%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
5.0×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,571
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$668,000
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income4.99Top 17%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate76.8%Bottom 45%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±4656,752Top 23%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$183$1,571Top 20%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$67,585$668,000Top 7%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income14.1%Bottom 24%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate8.8%Bottom 41%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
19/ 100
Ranks 5088 of 5,428 published city profiles

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.

New construction is predominantly single-family: only 0% of permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes.

At 0.2 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
2
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
0.2
Bottom 9% nationally
Year over year
−33%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Mount Kisco, NY, the city containing this ZIP code.

Weather & climate

5 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 83°F and January a low of 22°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 47.8 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 36, 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 WESTCHESTER CO AP, 9.3 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.9"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index58.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation47.8"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low22°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high83°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10062024 calendar year
Median air quality index36.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing44°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
36
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
58
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

85 / 100
Physical resilience

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

EarthquakeElevated
HurricaneModerate
LandslideModerate
Coastal floodingModerate

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

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. 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.

Westchester County records 1.6 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 2.5 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 9.4 per 100,000 residents in Westchester County.

Homicide
1.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
2.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
9.4
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
7.3
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 Westchester 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 10549 rather than 10549 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 29 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
New York Stewart IntlSWF29 mi11,817 ft
John F Kennedy IntlJFK39 mi14,511 ft
Newark Liberty IntlEWR42 mi9,999 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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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
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.

10549 vs Mount Kisco

How this ZIP area compares with Mount Kisco as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

10549
Mount Kisco
Median household income
$133,988
vs
$96,534
Per capita income
$80,531
vs
$59,049
Population density
845/sq mi
vs
3,531/sq mi
Median home value
$668,000
vs
$478,300
Median gross rent
$1,571
vs
$1,494
Homeownership rate
76.8%
vs
71.1%
Bachelor's degree or higher
65.2%
vs
57.7%
Poverty rate
7.0%
vs
8.2%
Median age
41.6
vs
40.9

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.