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SheetNY-FARMINGDALE-NY · Farmingdale, NY 8,450 pop · income 91st 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 Farmingdale
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Farmingdale on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Potsdam · lowest
32,061
Potsdam · lowest
32,061 median HH income
17.7% of the leader · rank #1
Bishop · near
133,958
Bishop · near
133,958 median HH income
73.8% of the leader · rank #2
Arcola · near
133,992
Arcola · near
133,992 median HH income
73.8% of the leader · rank #3
Woodland Hills · near
134,022
Woodland Hills · near
134,022 median HH income
73.8% of the leader · rank #4
Farmingdale · this city
134,037
Farmingdale · this city
134,037 median HH income
73.8% of the leader · rank #5
Timber Hills · near
134,063
Timber Hills · near
134,063 median HH income
73.9% of the leader · rank #6
Hastings-on-H… · highest
181,528
Hastings-on-H… · highest
181,528 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 Farmingdale 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: 8,450.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Farmingdale lands in the 91st percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
91st
percentile, household income
86th
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: Farmingdale, NY
New York's Farmingdale is a small town, with 8,450 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Farmingdale report a median income of $134,037 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.6%. Home values in Farmingdale run a median of $530,100, and the median resident age is 42.8 years. Educational attainment runs 52.9% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 66.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 4 residential building permits were authorized in Farmingdale (Construction Slowdown), down 85% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 53.5°F with 38.3 inches of precipitation per year.
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. 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 Farmingdale'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 population change to work and mobility to climate and hazard context; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Farmingdale, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, annual population history.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
Which cities make useful reference points for Farmingdale?
Within New York, the closest population matches are Hastings-on-Hudson (8,449 residents, $181,528 income); New Windsor (8,427 residents, $85,755 income); Malverne (8,496 residents, $146,585 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Center Line, MI (8,448 residents); Harrison, TN (8,446 residents); Lake Geneva, WI (8,443 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 Farmingdale?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 4.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.6%, 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. 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.
What does the education layer cover for Farmingdale?
The NCES join finds 5 public schools within the city match. 52.9% 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.
Is Farmingdale growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +133 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 4 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Farmingdale?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 70.7%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
12.4%
Work from home
11.9%
Drive alone
70.7%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 4,549 workers age 16+.
What physical conditions frame life in Farmingdale?
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 53.5°F, with 38.3 inches of precipitation. 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
53.5°F
Annual precipitation
38.3 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.
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+
$134,037
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A
52.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate A-
2.6%
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).
Farmingdale profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 91/100 (A+) · $134,037
Bachelor's+ share: 86/100 (A) · 52.9%
Poverty rate: 81/100 (A-) · 2.6%
Cost of living: 12/100 (F) · 107.9 index
How does Farmingdale compare to other US cities?
Farmingdale measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income91% higher than other cities
Home value86% 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 Farmingdale 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 Farmingdale near the bottom of New York's cities
Among the 1,256 New York cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Farmingdale ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Farmingdale only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#243 of 1,205
80th percentile in New York
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,256
0th percentile in New York
Median Home Value
#300 of 1,202
75th percentile in New York
Poverty Rate
#822 of 1,246
33rd percentile in New York
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#277 of 1,254
78th 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
91st percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Farmingdale's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$530,10014th percentilemore affordable than 14% 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
Farmingdale's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,573 of 15,516
More affordable than 32% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#8,284 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 4.0×, Farmingdale sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,573 of 15,516 and #8,284 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
$134,037Farmingdale, NY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Farmingdale, 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 Farmingdale, NY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)52.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)66.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
8,450
Median Income
$134,037
Median Home Value
$530,100
Median Age
42.8
Poverty Rate
2.6%
Labor force participation
66.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
52.9%
Climate
Avg Temperature
53.5°F
Annual Precipitation
38.3"
Annual Snowfall
N/A
Schools
Total Schools
5
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Farmingdale's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
8,451 residents
2021
8,424 residents
2022
8,404 residents
2023
8,548 residents
2024
8,582 residents
2025
8,584 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
4
housing units authorized
Single-Family
4
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.5
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
27
3
24
$5.5M
2020
1
1
0
$0.4M
2021
0
0
0
-
2022
76
1
75
$17.8M
2023
0
0
0
-
2024
4
4
0
$1.3M
Permit volume decreased 85% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
70.7%
Carpool
2.8%
Public Transit
12.4%
Walk
1.7%
Work from Home
11.9%
Based on 4,549 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 Farmingdale. 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 Farmingdale 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 Farmingdale sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Farmingdale 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 BPS 2024, 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.