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SheetNY-BRIDGEHAMPTON-NY · Bridgehampton, NY 1,322 pop · income 96th pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Bridgehampton
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Bridgehampton on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Vian · lowest
37,727
Vian · lowest
37,727 median HH income
22.4% of the leader · rank #1
Honcut · near
168,068
Honcut · near
168,068 median HH income
99.8% of the leader · rank #2
Severna Park · near
168,091
Severna Park · near
168,091 median HH income
99.8% of the leader · rank #3
Weatherby Lake · near
168,125
Weatherby Lake · near
168,125 median HH income
99.8% of the leader · rank #4
Bridgehampton · this city
168,167
Bridgehampton · this city
168,167 median HH income
99.8% of the leader · rank #5
Fair Oaks Ran… · near
168,309
Fair Oaks Ran… · near
168,309 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #6
Madison · highest
168,469
Madison · highest
168,469 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Bridgehampton on ACS population and median household income
. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 1,322.
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Bridgehampton places in the 96th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
96th
percentile, household income
99th
percentile, home value
78th
percentile, median rent
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Bridgehampton, NY
New York's Bridgehampton is a small town, with 1,322 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Bridgehampton households earn a median of $168,167 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 0.0%. Home values in Bridgehampton run a median of $1,974,400, and the median resident age is 51.9 years. Educational attainment runs 75.7% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 61.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 50.8°F with 49.8 inches of precipitation per year and 26.8 inches of snowfall.
New York carries a cost-of-living premium: the state registers 107.9 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Above Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,579 monthly. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in New York run around $285, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 69.4 out of 100 (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Bridgehampton's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from schools and households to housing and income to work and mobility to climate and hazard context to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Bridgehampton, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What does the education layer cover for Bridgehampton?
The NCES join finds 1 public school within the city match. 75.7% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
The matched institution count is small, so district boundaries and schools outside the city line may matter more than the municipal count suggests. Use the number as a coverage cue, then verify attendance zones with the district before making a household decision.
How far does income reach against housing in Bridgehampton?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 11.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 0.0%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
What does the journey to work look like in Bridgehampton?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Working from home is the largest reported mode at 39.6%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Which cities make useful reference points for Bridgehampton?
Within New York, the closest population matches are Bridgeport (1,320 residents, $58,971 income); Atlantic Beach (1,327 residents, $161,344 income); Millbrook (1,316 residents, $73,106 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Three Oaks, MI (1,322 residents); Vian, OK (1,322 residents); Lyons, OR (1,322 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Climate and hazard context
What physical conditions frame life in Bridgehampton?
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 50.8°F, with 49.8 inches of precipitation and 26.8 inches of annual snowfall. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for New York is 69.4 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
Mean temperature
50.8°F
Annual precipitation
49.8 in
FEMA risk index (state avg)
69.4
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
Top-decile income · poverty 0.0% (Very low poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
107.9 (US=100)
High cost · BEA RPP 2024, New York average
B+
City profile score · Bridgehampton, NY
78/100
4 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Household income A+
$168,167
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate A+
0.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share A+
75.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Cost of living F
107.9 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Bridgehampton profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 100/100 (A+) · $168,167
Poverty rate: 100/100 (A+) · 0.0%
Bachelor's+ share: 100/100 (A+) · 75.7%
Cost of living: 12/100 (F) · 107.9 index
How does Bridgehampton compare to other US cities?
Here's how Bridgehampton stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income96% higher than other cities
Home value99% pricier than other cities
Median rent78% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Bridgehampton against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to New York only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
New York-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Bridgehampton near the bottom of New York's cities
Among the 1,256 New York cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Bridgehampton ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Bridgehampton only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#122 of 1,205
90th percentile in New York
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,256
0th percentile in New York
Median Home Value
#17 of 1,202
99th percentile in New York
Poverty Rate
#1,032 of 1,246
0th percentile in New York
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#61 of 1,254
95th percentile in New York
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within New York only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
96th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Bridgehampton's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$1,974,4001st percentilemore affordable than 1% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Bridgehampton's home-value-to-income ratio: 11.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#15,447 of 15,516
More affordable than 0% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#11,277 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 11.7×, Bridgehampton sits in the pressured band:
national rank #15,447 of 15,516 and #11,277 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median, a comparison flag, not a verdict on any household.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$168,167Bridgehampton, NY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Bridgehampton, NY median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Bridgehampton, NY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)75.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)0.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)61.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
1,322
Median Income
$168,167
Median Home Value
$1,974,400
Median Age
51.9
Poverty Rate
0.0%
Labor force participation
61.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
75.7%
Climate
Avg Temperature
50.8°F
Annual Precipitation
49.8"
Annual Snowfall
26.8"
Schools
Total Schools
1
Public schools in this city
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
34.4%
Carpool
0.0%
Public Transit
6.3%
Walk
19.0%
Work from Home
39.6%
Other
0.7%
Based on 715 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
New York statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $285
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across New York at $285 (electricity about $130 , water and sewer about $65 ).
These are New York statewide averages, not a meter reading for Bridgehampton. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
New York's BEA cost-of-living index is 107.9 (Above Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Bridgehampton is $1,579/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to New York statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 69.4 / 100 (Moderate).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a New York statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Bridgehampton sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Bridgehampton compares to similar-size New York cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, NOAA Climate Normals, NCES CCD, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.