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SheetNY-FLORAL-PARK-NY · Floral Park, NY 16,025 pop · income 94th 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 Floral Park
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Floral Park on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Dublin · lowest
40,417
Dublin · lowest
40,417 median HH income
16.2% of the leader · rank #1
Celestine · near
150,270
Celestine · near
150,270 median HH income
60.1% of the leader · rank #2
Rio del Mar · near
150,313
Rio del Mar · near
150,313 median HH income
60.1% of the leader · rank #3
Floral Park · this city
150,350
Floral Park · this city
150,350 median HH income
60.1% of the leader · rank #4
Lake Clarke S… · near
150,393
Lake Clarke S… · near
150,393 median HH income
60.2% of the leader · rank #5
Felida · near
150,430
Felida · near
150,430 median HH income
60.2% of the leader · rank #6
Wolf Trap · highest
250,001
Wolf Trap · 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 Floral Park 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: 16,025.
Nationally, Floral Park sits in the 94th percentile for household income among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS.
94th
percentile, household income
94th
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: Floral Park, NY
New York's Floral Park is a small town, with 16,025 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Floral Park households earn a median of $150,350 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.1%. Floral Park's housing stock carries a median value of $754,300, and the median resident age is 43.6 years. About 60.8% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 65.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 39 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 1200% from five years earlier.
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. Monthly utility costs average around $285 across New York, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Workers in Floral Park report an average commute of 28.9 minutes, with 60.6% driving alone and 16.1% 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 Floral Park'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 population change 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 Floral Park, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, commute-mode shares, local building permits, matched public-school count.
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.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Floral Park?
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 5.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.1%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the journey to work look like in Floral Park?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 60.6%. The reported mean trip to work is 28.9 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. 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.
Is Floral Park growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -16 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.1% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 39 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
Which cities make useful reference points for Floral Park?
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 Fort Drum (16,124 residents, $63,194 income); Seaford (15,884 residents, $156,488 income); Kings Park (16,249 residents, $118,723 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Lynden, WA (16,025 residents); St. Simons, GA (16,026 residents); Dublin, GA (16,023 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.
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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Floral Park?
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 8 public schools within the city match. 60.8% 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.
Poverty estimate
2.1%
Bachelor's degree+
60.8%
Matched public schools
8
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
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+
$150,350
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A+
60.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate A
2.1%
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).
Floral Park profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 96/100 (A+) · $150,350
Bachelor's+ share: 92/100 (A+) · 60.8%
Poverty rate: 85/100 (A) · 2.1%
Cost of living: 12/100 (F) · 107.9 index
How does Floral Park compare to other US cities?
Floral Park measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income94% higher than other cities
Home value94% 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 Floral Park 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 Floral Park near the bottom of New York's cities
Among the 1,256 New York cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Floral Park ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Floral Park only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#167 of 1,205
86th percentile in New York
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,256
0th percentile in New York
Median Home Value
#146 of 1,202
88th percentile in New York
Poverty Rate
#869 of 1,246
29th percentile in New York
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#185 of 1,254
85th 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
94th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Floral Park's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$754,3006th percentilemore affordable than 6% 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
Floral Park's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#12,913 of 15,516
More affordable than 17% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,612 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 5.0×, Floral Park sits in the pressured band:
national rank #12,913 of 15,516 and #2,612 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$150,350Floral Park, NY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Floral Park, 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 Floral Park, NY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)60.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)65.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
16,025
Median Income
$150,350
Median Home Value
$754,300
Median Age
43.6
Poverty Rate
2.1%
Labor force participation
65.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
60.8%
Schools
Total Schools
8
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Floral Park's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
16,121 residents
2021
16,080 residents
2022
15,976 residents
2023
15,954 residents
2024
16,020 residents
2025
16,105 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
39
housing units authorized
Single-Family
3
detached homes
Multifamily
36
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
2.4
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
3
3
0
$0.9M
2020
0
0
0
-
2021
0
0
0
-
2022
0
0
0
-
2023
1
1
0
$1.0M
2024
39
3
36
$10.5M
Permit volume increased 1200% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
28.9 minutes
Drive Alone
60.6%
Carpool
7.1%
Public Transit
11.8%
Walk
3.4%
Work from Home
16.1%
Other
1.0%
Based on 8,215 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 Floral Park. 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 Floral Park 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 Floral Park sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Floral Park 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 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.