North Massapequa, New York

Area Profile

17,877 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for North Massapequa, in Nassau County.

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How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 16% of 3,904 cities measured74
Housing affordabilityTop 44% of 4,223 cities measured84
Climate2078th of 4,223 cities measured70
Physical resilienceTop 9% of 4,182 cities measured93
AccessTop 43% of 4,226 cities measured94
Economic stabilityTop 6% of 4,226 cities measured81
The quick read

North Massapequa ranks in the top 16% of published city profiles for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 3.5% and median household income of $148,654.

Natural-hazard exposure is lower than in most comparable published city profiles, placing North Massapequa in the top 9% for physical resilience.

A major airport is 17 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
17,877
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$148,654
Top 5% nationally
Density
5,971/sq mi
3.0 sq mi of land
Median age
42.7
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Nassau County
New York
Metro area
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ
Nearest major airport
JFK
17 mi · John F Kennedy Intl
Median home value
$634,900
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.

50% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 88% of measured US cities.

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

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$11,859$148,654Top 5%of 29,5732024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,713$63,500Top 8%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate4.9%Bottom 23%of 31,9002024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute36.0 minTop 14%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher49.9%Top 12%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Employment695,571Top 9%of 3,904June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-1.0%Bottom 33%of 3,903June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-0.5%Top 42%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force720,719Top 9%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force participation69.7%Top 19%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)0.3%Top 40%of 3,904June 2026
Unemployment rate3.5%Bottom 16%of 3,904June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024149k124k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $148,654 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.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Prices for everything a household buys run about 13% above the national average, on the Bureau of Economic Analysis index. Housing drives most of that difference.

Median rent of $2,302 takes 19% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 4.3 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Cost of living
112.6

Prices here run about 13% above the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Rent as a share of income
18.6%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
4.3×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$2,302
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$634,900
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Cost of living index112.6Top 16%of 3,6582023
Home price to income4.27Top 23%of 28,4732024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate94.7%Top 14%of 31,8432024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±4556,372Top 9%of 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$194$2,302Top 5%of 23,4322024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$12,788$634,900Top 8%of 29,3422024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income18.6%Top 50%of 23,2012024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate0.8%Bottom 13%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

6 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 25°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 38.3 inches.

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

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station FARMINGDALE AP, 3.5 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND3.7"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index54.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation38.3"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low25°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high83°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

93 / 100
Physical resilience

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

Ice stormModerate
Coastal floodingElevated
EarthquakeElevated
HurricaneElevated
LandslideModerate

Low or minimal exposure: winter weather, inland flooding, lightning, strong wind, 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 — they say 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 North Massapequa rather than North Massapequa 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
Offences reported to police are published by department rather than by town, and only where a department reported every month of the year. No municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — so there is no figure to show. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Taxes
Taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Cost of living now is — the index above is the Bureau of Economic Analysis price parity for this area — but it is a price level for all consumption rather than a budget for a household, its spread is driven mostly by housing, and it excludes taxes. Housing affordability is computed separately from rent, price and income, because that answers a narrower and more actionable question. Nothing here is individualised tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house. School attendance zones, insurance pricing and the character of a neighbourhood all vary within the places measured here.

Access

4 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 17 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
John F Kennedy IntlJFK17 mi14,511 ft
Newark Liberty IntlEWR37 mi9,999 ft
New York Stewart IntlSWF64 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 North Massapequa
NewarkEssex County310,17849vs North Massapequa
Jersey CityHudson County294,07861vs North Massapequa
YonkersWestchester County209,97862vs North Massapequa
PatersonPassaic County158,73543vs North Massapequa
ElizabethUnion County137,30253vs North Massapequa
Toms RiverOcean County94,956vs North Massapequa
CliftonPassaic County89,37961vs North Massapequa
New RochelleWestchester County82,76966vs North Massapequa
Mount VernonWestchester County72,42756vs North Massapequa
BayonneHudson County71,55354vs North Massapequa
East OrangeEssex County70,09050vs North Massapequa

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)
HousingU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Regional price parities and county personal income
2023Annually, each December
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
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
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.