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SheetNY-LAKE-SUCCESS-NY · Lake Success, NY 2,817 pop · income 99th 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 Lake Success
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Lake Success on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Licking · lowest
32,813
Licking · lowest
32,813 median HH income
13.1% of the leader · rank #1
Crosspointe · near
247,708
Crosspointe · near
247,708 median HH income
99.1% of the leader · rank #2
Glen Ridge · near
248,016
Glen Ridge · near
248,016 median HH income
99.2% of the leader · rank #3
Blackwells Mi… · near
248,149
Blackwells Mi… · near
248,149 median HH income
99.3% of the leader · rank #4
Lake Success · this city
248,750
Lake Success · this city
248,750 median HH income
99.5% of the leader · rank #5
Medina · near
249,688
Medina · near
249,688 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #6
Munsey Park · highest
250,001
Munsey Park · 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 Lake Success 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: 2,817.
Lake Success ranks in the 99th percentile for household income nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS.
99th
percentile, household income
99th
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: Lake Success, NY
2,817 people live in Lake Success, New York - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Lake Success report a median income of $248,750 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 0.9%. Typical homes in Lake Success are valued around $1,484,000, and the median resident age is 46.4 years. About 62.0% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 56.6% 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 (Building Boom), up 50% 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. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,579 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts New York's average monthly utility costs around $285 (state average). 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 Lake Success'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 population change to housing and income to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Lake Success, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, annual population history, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Lake Success?
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 Voorheesville (2,828 residents, $106,250 income); Dannemora (2,831 residents, $70,938 income); Munsey Park (2,794 residents, $250,000+ income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Heyworth, IL (2,818 residents); Federalsburg, MD (2,818 residents); Licking, MO (2,816 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.
Is Lake Success growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +28 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.0% 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.
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.
How far does income reach against housing in Lake Success?
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 6.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 0.9%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the journey to work look like in Lake Success?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 53.9%. 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. 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.
Top-decile income · poverty 0.9% (Very low poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
107.9 (US=100)
High cost · BEA RPP 2024, New York average
B+
City profile score · Lake Success, NY
75/100
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+
$248,750
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate A+
0.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share A+
62.0%
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).
Lake Success profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 100/100 (A+) · $248,750
Poverty rate: 94/100 (A+) · 0.9%
Bachelor's+ share: 93/100 (A+) · 62.0%
Cost of living: 12/100 (F) · 107.9 index
How does Lake Success compare to other US cities?
Where Lake Success sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income99% higher than other cities
Home value99% 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 Lake Success 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 Lake Success near the bottom of New York's cities
Among the 1,256 New York cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Lake Success ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Lake Success only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#30 of 1,205
98th percentile in New York
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,256
0th percentile in New York
Median Home Value
#40 of 1,202
97th percentile in New York
Poverty Rate
#995 of 1,246
19th percentile in New York
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#171 of 1,254
86th 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
99th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Lake Success's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$1,484,0001st percentilemore affordable than 1% 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
Lake Success's home-value-to-income ratio: 6.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,074 of 15,516
More affordable than 9% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#10,447 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 6.0×, Lake Success sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,074 of 15,516 and #10,447 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$248,750Lake Success, NY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Lake Success, 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 Lake Success, NY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)62.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)0.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)56.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
2,817
Median Income
$248,750
Median Home Value
$1,484,000
Median Age
46.4
Poverty Rate
0.9%
Labor force participation
56.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
62.0%
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Lake Success's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
2,821 residents
2021
2,823 residents
2022
2,814 residents
2023
2,817 residents
2024
2,843 residents
2025
2,849 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
3
housing units authorized
Single-Family
3
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
2
2
0
$3.0M
2020
2
2
0
$3.1M
2021
3
3
0
$4.5M
2022
2
2
0
$3.9M
2023
4
4
0
$4.7M
2024
3
3
0
$2.7M
Permit volume increased 50% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
53.9%
Carpool
5.9%
Public Transit
16.1%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
18.9%
Other
5.2%
Based on 1,246 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 Lake Success. 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 Lake Success 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 Lake Success sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Lake Success 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.