11572Oceanside, New York

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 11572.

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How this area ranks
SchoolsTop 11% of 4,422 published ZIP areas82
Housing affordabilityTop 41% of 6,685 published ZIP areas86
ClimateTop 45% of 6,789 published ZIP areas71
Physical resilienceTop 8% of 6,709 published ZIP areas93
AccessTop 15% of 6,791 published ZIP areas99
Economic stabilityTop 6% of 6,742 published ZIP areas84
The quick read

Rent takes 18% of median household income here, below the 30% threshold conventionally called cost-burdened, and the median home is 4.3 times that income.

Natural-hazard exposure is lower than in most comparable published ZIP profiles, placing 11572 in the top 8% 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
30,436
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$148,790
Top 4% nationally
Density
6,383/sq mi
4.8 sq mi of land
Median age
45.5
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Oceanside
New York
Metro area
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ
Nearest major airport
JFK
7 mi · John F Kennedy Intl
Median home value
$634,500
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

48% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 86% of measured US ZIP areas.

Household income is higher than at least 96% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$7,722$148,790Top 4%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,415$62,747Top 9%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate3.0%Bottom 10%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute38.9 minTop 9%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher48.3%Top 14%2024 ACS 5-Year
Labor force participation66.8%Top 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$86,310Top 13%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$61,430Top 15%2025 OEWS
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024149k125k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $148,790 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.

63% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 71% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 11.9 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
10
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
11.9
across all schools here
Math proficiency
62.9%
Top 20% in New York
Reading proficiency
71.5%
Top 21% in New York
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
SCHOOL 7-OCEANSIDE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLOCEANSIDE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT1,66811.3
SCHOOL 9M-OCEANSIDE MIDDLE SCHOOLOCEANSIDE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT80110.542%77%
SCHOOL 6-KINDERGARTEN CENTEROCEANSIDE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT625
SCHOOL 5OCEANSIDE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT45214.665%68%
SCHOOL 3OCEANSIDE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT44716.081%77%
SCHOOL 8OCEANSIDE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT43314.069%68%
SCHOOL 2OCEANSIDE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT40713.170%65%
SCHOOL 9E-BOARDMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLOCEANSIDE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT33310.164%67%
SCHOOL 4OCEANSIDE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT26411.070%74%
CASTLETON ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL OF OCEANSIDEOCEANSIDE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT355.0

17.5% 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 $2,227 takes 18% 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.

Rent as a share of income
18.0%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
4.3×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$2,227
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$634,500
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income4.26Top 24%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate92.9%Top 12%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±41910,850Top 15%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$120$2,227Top 5%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$11,444$634,500Top 8%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income18.0%Top 48%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate3.0%Bottom 12%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 →

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 84°F and January a low of 26°F.

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

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, 6.6 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.1"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
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
Seasonal temperature swing43°F1991-2020 Normals

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.

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. 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.

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 11572 rather than 11572 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 IntlEWR28 mi9,999 ft
New York Stewart IntlSWF65 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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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
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

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.

11572 vs Oceanside

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

11572
Oceanside
Median household income
$148,790
vs
$149,560
Per capita income
$62,747
vs
$63,220
Population density
6,383/sq mi
vs
6,418/sq mi
Median home value
$634,500
vs
$634,300
Median gross rent
$2,227
vs
$2,227
Homeownership rate
92.9%
vs
93.2%
Bachelor's degree or higher
48.3%
vs
48.7%
Poverty rate
3.0%
vs
2.9%
Median age
45.5
vs
45.7

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.