Roosevelt, New York

Area Profile

18,885 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Roosevelt, in Nassau County.

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How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 22% of 3,904 cities measured70
Schools2373rd of 2,668 cities measured20
Housing affordabilityTop 46% of 4,223 cities measured83
Climate2078th of 4,223 cities measured70
Physical resilienceTop 9% of 4,182 cities measured93
AccessTop 15% of 4,226 cities measured99
Economic stabilityTop 2% of 4,226 cities measured85
The quick read

Roosevelt ranks in the top 22% of published city profiles for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 3.5% and median household income of $135,069.

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

A major airport is 11 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
18,885
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$135,069
Top 7% nationally
Density
10,669/sq mi
1.8 sq mi of land
Median age
35.7
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Nassau County
New York
Metro area
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ
Nearest major airport
JFK
11 mi · John F Kennedy Intl
Median home value
$477,400
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.

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

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$20,739$135,069Top 7%of 29,5732024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,922$37,478Top 39%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate3.8%Bottom 18%of 31,9002024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute40.2 minTop 7%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher28.7%Top 33%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 participation74.2%Top 10%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
2021202220232024135k107k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $135,069 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.

14% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 27% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 11.8 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
6
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
11.8
across all schools here
Math proficiency
14.1%
Bottom 3% in New York
Reading proficiency
26.5%
Bottom 2% in New York
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOLROOSEVELT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT1,12712.8
ROOSEVELT CHILDREN'S ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL · charterROOSEVELT CHILDREN'S ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL67614.4
WASHINGTON ROSE SCHOOLROOSEVELT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT66713.914%19%
CENTENNIAL AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLROOSEVELT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT46010.514%25%
ULYSSES BYAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLROOSEVELT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT45710.416%39%
ROOSEVELT MIDDLE SCHOOLROOSEVELT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT4418.312%27%

60.2% 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

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Median rent of $2,565 takes 23% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 3.5 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
22.8%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.5×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$2,565
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$477,400
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income3.53Top 35%of 28,4732024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate76.6%Top 49%of 31,8432024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±4264,575Top 12%of 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$500$2,565Top 3%of 23,4322024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$26,164$477,400Top 13%of 29,3422024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income22.8%Top 26%of 23,2012024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2.7%Bottom 18%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, 9.5 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. 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 Roosevelt rather than Roosevelt 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 and full cost of living
No public source publishes either with national coverage and a method open enough to check. 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. 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

5 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 11 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
John F Kennedy IntlJFK11 mi14,511 ft
Newark Liberty IntlEWR31 mi9,999 ft
New York Stewart IntlSWF63 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 Roosevelt
NewarkEssex County310,17849vs Roosevelt
Jersey CityHudson County294,07861vs Roosevelt
YonkersWestchester County209,97862vs Roosevelt
PatersonPassaic County158,73543vs Roosevelt
ElizabethUnion County137,30253vs Roosevelt
Toms RiverOcean County94,956vs Roosevelt
CliftonPassaic County89,37961vs Roosevelt
New RochelleWestchester County82,76966vs Roosevelt
Mount VernonWestchester County72,42756vs Roosevelt
BayonneHudson County71,55354vs Roosevelt
East OrangeEssex County70,09050vs Roosevelt

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 Roosevelt

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
1157518,705$126,146