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SheetNY-GLEN-COVE-NY · Glen Cove, NY 28,101 pop · income 72nd 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 Glen Cove
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Glen Cove on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Jamestown · lowest
44,878
Jamestown · lowest
44,878 median HH income
30.4% of the leader · rank #1
Fairfield · near
91,354
Fairfield · near
91,354 median HH income
61.9% of the leader · rank #2
Glen Cove · this city
91,355
Glen Cove · this city
91,355 median HH income
61.9% of the leader · rank #3
Stockton · near
91,359
Stockton · near
91,359 median HH income
61.9% of the leader · rank #4
Washington · near
91,360
Washington · near
91,360 median HH income
61.9% of the leader · rank #5
Three Lakes · near
91,364
Three Lakes · near
91,364 median HH income
61.9% of the leader · rank #6
Maple Valley · highest
147,546
Maple Valley · highest
147,546 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, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Glen Cove on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. 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: 28,101.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Glen Cove - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Glen Cove places in the 72nd percentile for household income and the 82nd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
72nd
percentile, household income
91st
percentile, home value
78th
percentile, median rent
82nd
percentile, safety
📝 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: Glen Cove, NY
Glen Cove is a small city in New York, home to 28,101 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Glen Cove households earn a median of $91,355 annually, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 9.9%. Typical homes in Glen Cove are valued around $654,500, and the median resident age is 43.1 years. 40.0% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 58.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 3 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 57% from five years earlier. Glen Cove reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 579.8 in FBI UCR data, below the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
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. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in New York run around $285, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. The average commute for Glen Cove workers runs 27.6 minutes, with 69.4% driving alone and 8.8% working from home. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 69.4 out of 100 (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Glen Cove'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 schools and households to population change to reported crime to comparison shortlist to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Glen Cove, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, annual population history, local building permits.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
How far does income reach against housing in Glen Cove?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 7.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 9.9%, 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 Glen Cove?
The NCES join finds 6 public schools within the city match. 40.0% 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 Glen Cove growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -43 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.2% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 3 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Which cities make useful reference points for Glen Cove?
Within New York, the closest population matches are Shirley (27,807 residents, $105,379 income); Jamestown (28,401 residents, $44,878 income); Monsey (27,787 residents, $49,095 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Oakdale, MN (28,109 residents); Maple Valley, WA (28,121 residents); Allen Park, MI (28,128 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. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Glen Cove?
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 579.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 75% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
468.2
Violent rate
111.6
Total reported rate
579.8
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the journey to work look like in Glen Cove?
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 69.4%. The reported mean trip to work is 27.6 minutes.
Public transit
9.4%
Work from home
8.8%
Drive alone
69.4%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 13,452 workers age 16+.
Above median income · poverty 9.9% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
107.9 (US=100)
High cost · BEA RPP 2024, New York average
C-
City profile score · Glen Cove, NY
53/100
5 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.
Bachelor's+ share B+
40.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income B
$91,355
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime B-
112 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate D
9.9%
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.
Glen Cove profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 75/100 (B+) · 40.0%
Household income: 71/100 (B) · $91,355
Violent crime: 68/100 (B-) · 112 /100k
Poverty rate: 40/100 (D) · 9.9%
Cost of living: 12/100 (F) · 107.9 index
Where Glen Cove sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Glen Cove's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Glen Cove highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Glen Cove, NY (this city): home $654,500, crime 580/100k
Oakdale, MN : home $305,900, crime 1,942/100k
Maple Valley, WA : home $672,000, crime 1,580/100k
Allen Park, MI : home $174,500, crime 1,990/100k
Ramsey, MN : home $345,000, crime 580/100k
Ridgecrest, CA : home $235,800, crime 1,750/100k
Chaska, MN : home $379,400, crime 720/100k
Jamestown, NY : home $79,100, crime 2,935/100k
Saratoga Springs, NY : home $445,100, crime 1,902/100k
Newburgh, NY : home $221,100, crime 2,901/100k
How does Glen Cove compare to other US cities?
Here's how Glen Cove stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income72% higher than other cities
Home value91% pricier than other cities
Median rent78% pricier than other cities
Safety82% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just New York and the picture shifts: Glen Cove ranks #8 of 55 New York cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Glen Cove 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 Glen Cove near the bottom of New York's cities
Among the 1,256 New York cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Glen Cove ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Glen Cove only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#505 of 1,205
58th percentile in New York
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,256
0th percentile in New York
Median Home Value
#194 of 1,202
84th percentile in New York
Poverty Rate
#308 of 1,246
75th percentile in New York
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#487 of 1,254
61st 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
72nd percentile nationally for median household income · 82nd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Glen Cove's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Glen Cove's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Glen Cove's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$654,5009th percentilemore affordable than 9% 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
Glen Cove's home-value-to-income ratio: 7.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,745 of 15,516
More affordable than 5% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#3,134 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 7.2×, Glen Cove sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,745 of 15,516 and #3,134 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
$91,355Glen Cove, NY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Glen Cove, 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 Glen Cove, NY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)40.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)9.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)58.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
28,101
Median Income
$91,355
Median Home Value
$654,500
Median Age
43.1
Poverty Rate
9.9%
Labor force participation
58.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
40.0%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
579.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
111.6
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
468.2
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
6
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Glen Cove's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
28,233 residents
2021
28,176 residents
2022
28,106 residents
2023
28,043 residents
2024
28,201 residents
2025
28,190 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
3
housing units authorized
Single-Family
3
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
7
1
6
$1.3M
2020
2
2
0
$0.7M
2021
6
4
2
$2.6M
2022
5
5
0
$3.0M
2023
2
2
0
$1.2M
2024
3
3
0
$1.8M
Permit volume decreased 57% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
27.6 minutes
Drive Alone
69.4%
Carpool
7.4%
Public Transit
9.4%
Walk
3.1%
Work from Home
8.8%
Other
1.9%
Based on 13,452 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 Glen Cove. 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 Glen Cove 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 Glen Cove sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Glen Cove 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, FBI UCR, 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.