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SheetNY-EAST-MEADOW-NY · East Meadow, NY 35,806 pop · income 90th 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 East Meadow
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest East Meadow on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Kiryas Joel · lowest
43,171
Kiryas Joel · lowest
43,171 median HH income
21.6% of the leader · rank #1
Healy · near
128,750
Healy · near
128,750 median HH income
64.3% of the leader · rank #2
Fruitdale · near
128,750
Fruitdale · near
128,750 median HH income
64.3% of the leader · rank #3
Verandah · near
128,750
Verandah · near
128,750 median HH income
64.3% of the leader · rank #4
Millbrook · near
128,750
Millbrook · near
128,750 median HH income
64.3% of the leader · rank #5
East Meadow · this city
128,770
East Meadow · this city
128,770 median HH income
64.3% of the leader · rank #6
Parkland · highest
200,156
Parkland · highest
200,156 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 East Meadow 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: 35,806.
Nationally, East Meadow sits in the 90th percentile for household income among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS.
90th
percentile, household income
90th
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: East Meadow, NY
East Meadow is a small city in New York, home to 35,806 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in East Meadow report a median income of $128,770 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 3.1%. Typical homes in East Meadow are valued around $613,900, and the median resident age is 43.8 years. Educational attainment runs 44.2% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 54.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The city is served by 6 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. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts New York's average monthly utility costs around $285 (state average). The average commute for East Meadow workers runs 31.0 minutes, with 69.2% driving alone and 12.5% working from home. 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 East Meadow'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 work and mobility to housing and income to comparison shortlist to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For East Meadow, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What does the journey to work look like in East Meadow?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 69.2%. The reported mean trip to work is 31.0 minutes.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
How far does income reach against housing in East Meadow?
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.
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.1%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for East Meadow?
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.
Within New York, the closest population matches are Commack (36,353 residents, $170,375 income); Elmont (36,436 residents, $120,917 income); Kiryas Joel (36,572 residents, $43,171 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Parkland, FL (35,799 residents); El Mirage, AZ (35,823 residents); Plainfield, IN (35,783 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.
What does the education layer cover for East Meadow?
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.
The NCES join finds 6 public schools within the city match. 44.2% 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.
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+
$128,770
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share B+
44.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate B+
3.1%
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).
East Meadow profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 90/100 (A+) · $128,770
Bachelor's+ share: 79/100 (B+) · 44.2%
Poverty rate: 78/100 (B+) · 3.1%
Cost of living: 12/100 (F) · 107.9 index
How does East Meadow compare to other US cities?
Here's how East Meadow stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income90% higher than other cities
Home value90% 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 East Meadow 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 East Meadow near the bottom of New York's cities
Among the 1,256 New York cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, East Meadow ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares East Meadow only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#273 of 1,205
77th percentile in New York
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,256
0th percentile in New York
Median Home Value
#234 of 1,202
81st percentile in New York
Poverty Rate
#767 of 1,246
38th percentile in New York
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#411 of 1,254
67th 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
90th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How East Meadow's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$613,90010th percentilemore affordable than 10% 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
East Meadow's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#12,492 of 15,516
More affordable than 19% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,498 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.8×, East Meadow sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,492 of 15,516 and #2,498 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
$128,770East Meadow, NY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context East Meadow, 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 East Meadow, NY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)44.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)54.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
35,806
Median Income
$128,770
Median Home Value
$613,900
Median Age
43.8
Poverty Rate
3.1%
Labor force participation
54.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
44.2%
Schools
Total Schools
6
Public schools in this city
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
31.0 minutes
Drive Alone
69.2%
Carpool
5.9%
Public Transit
9.3%
Walk
2.2%
Work from Home
12.5%
Other
0.9%
Based on 15,922 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 East Meadow. 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 East Meadow 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 East Meadow sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How East Meadow 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.