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SheetNY-GREAT-NECK-PLAZA-NY · Great Neck Plaza, NY 7,503 pop · income 81st 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 Great Neck Plaza
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Great Neck Plaza on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Breaux Bridge · lowest
45,620
Breaux Bridge · lowest
45,620 median HH income
29.9% of the leader · rank #1
Elburn · near
106,506
Elburn · near
106,506 median HH income
69.8% of the leader · rank #2
Long Valley · near
106,528
Long Valley · near
106,528 median HH income
69.8% of the leader · rank #3
Great Neck Pl… · this city
106,549
Great Neck Pl… · this city
106,549 median HH income
69.8% of the leader · rank #4
Hamilton Bran… · near
106,591
Hamilton Bran… · near
106,591 median HH income
69.8% of the leader · rank #5
Gwynneville · near
106,597
Gwynneville · near
106,597 median HH income
69.8% of the leader · rank #6
Williston Park · highest
152,656
Williston Park · highest
152,656 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 Great Neck Plaza 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: 7,503.
Great Neck Plaza ranks in the 81st percentile for household income nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS.
81st
percentile, household income
76th
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: Great Neck Plaza, NY
7,503 people live in Great Neck Plaza, New York - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Great Neck Plaza report a median income of $106,549 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 6.9%. Typical homes in Great Neck Plaza are valued around $381,900, and the median resident age is 49.0 years. 66.8% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 58.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 64 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 178% from five years earlier.
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. 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 Great Neck Plaza'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 population change to housing and income 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 Great Neck Plaza, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, local building permits, annual population history.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Population change
Is Great Neck Plaza 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 +515 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +7.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 64 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
How far does income reach against housing in Great Neck Plaza?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 6.9%, 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. 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Great Neck Plaza?
Within New York, the closest population matches are Williston Park (7,508 residents, $152,656 income); Mechanicstown (7,479 residents, $90,414 income); Viola (7,470 residents, $95,383 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Berlin, NJ (7,503 residents); Winfield, IN (7,501 residents); Camp Swift, TX (7,505 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Great Neck Plaza?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 40.8%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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 A+
66.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income A-
$106,549
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate C-
6.9%
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.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Great Neck Plaza profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 96/100 (A+) · 66.8%
Household income: 80/100 (A-) · $106,549
Poverty rate: 53/100 (C-) · 6.9%
Cost of living: 12/100 (F) · 107.9 index
How does Great Neck Plaza compare to other US cities?
Where Great Neck Plaza sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income81% higher than other cities
Home value76% 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 Great Neck Plaza 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 Great Neck Plaza near the bottom of New York's cities
Among the 1,256 New York cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Great Neck Plaza ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Great Neck Plaza only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#387 of 1,205
68th percentile in New York
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,256
0th percentile in New York
Median Home Value
#401 of 1,202
67th percentile in New York
Poverty Rate
#456 of 1,246
63rd percentile in New York
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#130 of 1,254
90th 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
81st percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Great Neck Plaza's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$381,90024th percentilemore affordable than 24% 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
Great Neck Plaza's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#9,306 of 15,516
More affordable than 40% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#7,473 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.6×, Great Neck Plaza sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,306 of 15,516 and #7,473 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
$106,549Great Neck Plaza, NY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Great Neck Plaza, 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 Great Neck Plaza, NY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)66.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)6.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)58.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
7,503
Median Income
$106,549
Median Home Value
$381,900
Median Age
49.0
Poverty Rate
6.9%
Labor force participation
58.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
66.8%
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Great Neck Plaza's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
7,374 residents
2021
7,422 residents
2022
7,506 residents
2023
7,616 residents
2024
7,780 residents
2025
7,889 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
64
housing units authorized
Single-Family
0
detached homes
Multifamily
64
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
8.5
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
23
0
23
$5.9M
2020
36
0
36
$9.2M
2021
60
0
60
$15.3M
2022
61
0
61
$15.5M
2023
55
0
55
$14.0M
2024
64
0
64
$16.3M
Permit volume increased 178% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
40.8%
Carpool
5.3%
Public Transit
20.7%
Walk
3.8%
Work from Home
26.0%
Other
3.4%
Based on 3,808 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 Great Neck Plaza. 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 Great Neck Plaza 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 Great Neck Plaza sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Great Neck Plaza 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 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.