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SheetNY-EAST-SHOREHAM-NY · East Shoreham, NY 7,279 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 East Shoreham
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest East Shoreham on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Monticello · lowest
47,464
Monticello · lowest
47,464 median HH income
19.0% of the leader · rank #1
Amherst · near
165,714
Amherst · near
165,714 median HH income
66.3% of the leader · rank #2
East Shoreham · this city
165,789
East Shoreham · this city
165,789 median HH income
66.3% of the leader · rank #3
Walcott · near
165,828
Walcott · near
165,828 median HH income
66.3% of the leader · rank #4
Marblehead · near
165,859
Marblehead · near
165,859 median HH income
66.3% of the leader · rank #5
Mount Carmel · near
165,865
Mount Carmel · near
165,865 median HH income
66.3% of the leader · rank #6
East Hills · highest
250,001
East Hills · highest
250,001 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 Shoreham 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: 7,279.
Nationally, East Shoreham sits in the 96th percentile for household income among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS.
96th
percentile, household income
87th
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 Shoreham, NY
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 7,279 residents in East Shoreham, a small town within New York. Median household income here is $165,789 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 1.4%. Typical homes in East Shoreham are valued around $542,000, and the median resident age is 38.7 years. About 42.4% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 60.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
New York carries a cost-of-living premium: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts New York at 107.9 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Above Average). A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,579 per month statewide. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in New York run around $285, per EIA 2023 residential energy 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 East Shoreham'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 housing and income to work and mobility to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For East Shoreham, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in East Shoreham?
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. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 1.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the journey to work look like in East Shoreham?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 78.2%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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.
Which cities make useful reference points for East Shoreham?
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 Scotia (7,260 residents, $74,185 income); Cedarhurst (7,306 residents, $98,958 income); Monticello (7,252 residents, $47,464 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Flatwoods, KY (7,281 residents); Mims, FL (7,282 residents); Shields, MI (7,276 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.
Top-decile income · poverty 1.4% (Very low poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
107.9 (US=100)
High cost · BEA RPP 2024, New York average
B
City profile score · East Shoreham, NY
71/100
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+
$165,789
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate A+
1.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share B+
42.4%
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).
East Shoreham profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 100/100 (A+) · $165,789
Poverty rate: 90/100 (A+) · 1.4%
Bachelor's+ share: 77/100 (B+) · 42.4%
Cost of living: 12/100 (F) · 107.9 index
How does East Shoreham compare to other US cities?
Here's how East Shoreham 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 value87% 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 Shoreham 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 Shoreham near the bottom of New York's cities
Among the 1,256 New York cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, East Shoreham ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares East Shoreham only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#125 of 1,205
90th percentile in New York
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,256
0th percentile in New York
Median Home Value
#295 of 1,202
75th percentile in New York
Poverty Rate
#958 of 1,246
23rd percentile in New York
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#442 of 1,254
65th 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 East Shoreham's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$542,00013th percentilemore affordable than 13% 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 Shoreham's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,975 of 15,516
More affordable than 49% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#6,543 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.3×, East Shoreham sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,975 of 15,516 and #6,543 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$165,789East Shoreham, NY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context East Shoreham, 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 Shoreham, NY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)42.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)1.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)60.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
7,279
Median Income
$165,789
Median Home Value
$542,000
Median Age
38.7
Poverty Rate
1.4%
Labor force participation
60.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
42.4%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
78.2%
Carpool
6.5%
Public Transit
2.1%
Walk
0.2%
Work from Home
12.7%
Based on 3,380 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 Shoreham. 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 Shoreham 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 Shoreham sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How East Shoreham 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, 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.