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Place dossier plate
SheetNY-DIX-HILLS-NY · Dix Hills, NY 25,042 pop · income 99th pct
Nearest income peer: El Macero, CA (+ $185 income $)
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 Dix Hills
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Dix Hills on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Watertown · lowest
49,692
Watertown · lowest
49,692 median HH income
22.6% of the leader · rank #1
Princeton Jun… · near
219,375
Princeton Jun… · near
219,375 median HH income
99.7% of the leader · rank #2
Lexington · near
219,402
Lexington · near
219,402 median HH income
99.7% of the leader · rank #3
Dix Hills · this city
219,636
Dix Hills · this city
219,636 median HH income
99.8% of the leader · rank #4
El Macero · near
219,821
El Macero · near
219,821 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #5
Stepping Stone · highest
220,039
Stepping Stone · highest
220,039 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #6
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 Dix Hills 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: 25,042.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Dix Hills lands in the 99th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
99th
percentile, household income
96th
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: Dix Hills, NY
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 25,042 residents in Dix Hills, a small city within New York. Median household income here is $219,636 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.0%. Dix Hills's housing stock carries a median value of $891,400, and the median resident age is 46.7 years. Educational attainment runs 64.5% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 61.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The city is served by 11 public schools according to NCES Common Core of Data.
New York carries a cost-of-living premium: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, New York scores 107.9 (Above Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,579 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $285 across New York, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Commute times here average 30.7 minutes, with 64.5% driving alone and 18.9% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. Natural-hazard exposure scores 69.4 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Dix Hills'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 comparison shortlist to housing and income to schools and households to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Dix Hills, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
Which cities make useful reference points for Dix Hills?
Within New York, the closest population matches are Smithtown (24,940 residents, $148,852 income); Peekskill (25,484 residents, $91,042 income); Watertown (24,574 residents, $49,692 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Bellview, FL (25,051 residents); Newport, RI (25,029 residents); King of Prussia, PA (25,025 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Dix Hills?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.0%, 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 education layer cover for Dix Hills?
The NCES join finds 11 public schools within the city match. 64.5% 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 city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
What does the journey to work look like in Dix Hills?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 64.5%. The reported mean trip to work is 30.7 minutes.
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+
$219,636
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A+
64.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate A
2.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
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).
Dix Hills profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 100/100 (A+) · $219,636
Bachelor's+ share: 94/100 (A+) · 64.5%
Poverty rate: 86/100 (A) · 2.0%
Cost of living: 12/100 (F) · 107.9 index
How does Dix Hills compare to other US cities?
Dix Hills measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income99% higher than other cities
Home value96% 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 Dix Hills 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 Dix Hills near the bottom of New York's cities
Among the 1,256 New York cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Dix Hills ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Dix Hills only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#45 of 1,205
96th percentile in New York
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,256
0th percentile in New York
Median Home Value
#103 of 1,202
91st percentile in New York
Poverty Rate
#882 of 1,246
28th percentile in New York
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#151 of 1,254
88th 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
99th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Dix Hills's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$891,4004th percentilemore affordable than 4% 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
Dix Hills's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,866 of 15,516
More affordable than 30% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,035 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.1×, Dix Hills sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,866 of 15,516 and #2,035 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
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
$219,636Dix Hills, NY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Dix Hills, 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 Dix Hills, NY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)64.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)61.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
25,042
Median Income
$219,636
Median Home Value
$891,400
Median Age
46.7
Poverty Rate
2.0%
Labor force participation
61.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
64.5%
Schools
Total Schools
11
Public schools in this city
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
30.7 minutes
Drive Alone
64.5%
Carpool
7.0%
Public Transit
8.6%
Walk
0.7%
Work from Home
18.9%
Based on 12,480 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 Dix Hills. 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 Dix Hills 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 Dix Hills sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Dix Hills 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, 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.