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SheetNY-MANHASSET-NY · Manhasset, NY 7,730 pop · income 97th 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 Manhasset
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Manhasset on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Geneseo · lowest
44,830
Geneseo · lowest
44,830 median HH income
24.8% of the leader · rank #1
Manhasset · this city
180,776
Manhasset · this city
180,776 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #2
County Center · near
180,825
County Center · near
180,825 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #3
Brazos Country · near
180,833
Brazos Country · near
180,833 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #4
Long Branch · near
180,833
Long Branch · near
180,833 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #5
Dry Run · near
180,850
Dry Run · near
180,850 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #6
Hudson · highest
180,931
Hudson · highest
180,931 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 Manhasset 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: 7,730.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Manhasset lands in the 97th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
97th
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: Manhasset, NY
New York's Manhasset is a small town, with 7,730 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Manhasset households earn a median of $180,776 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.7%. Manhasset's housing stock carries a median value of $1,338,700, and the median resident age is 44.7 years. About 68.2% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 60.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The city is served by 4 public schools according to NCES Common Core of Data.
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. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,579 per month statewide. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in New York run around $285, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. 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 Manhasset'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 work and mobility to schools and households to housing and income to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Manhasset, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Manhasset?
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 55.8%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
What does the education layer cover for Manhasset?
The NCES join finds 4 public schools within the city match. 68.2% 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Manhasset?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 7.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.7%, 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Manhasset?
Within New York, the closest population matches are Baldwinsville (7,732 residents, $80,104 income); Colonie (7,705 residents, $100,396 income); Geneseo (7,700 residents, $44,830 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Ancient Oaks, PA (7,731 residents); Sky Lake, FL (7,728 residents); Jennings Lodge, OR (7,732 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.
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+
$180,776
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A+
68.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate A-
2.7%
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).
Manhasset profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 100/100 (A+) · $180,776
Bachelor's+ share: 96/100 (A+) · 68.2%
Poverty rate: 81/100 (A-) · 2.7%
Cost of living: 12/100 (F) · 107.9 index
How does Manhasset compare to other US cities?
Manhasset measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income97% 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 Manhasset 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 Manhasset near the bottom of New York's cities
Among the 1,256 New York cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Manhasset ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Manhasset only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#85 of 1,205
93rd percentile in New York
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,256
0th percentile in New York
Median Home Value
#52 of 1,202
96th percentile in New York
Poverty Rate
#807 of 1,246
34th percentile in New York
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#117 of 1,254
91st 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
97th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Manhasset's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$1,338,7001st 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
Manhasset's home-value-to-income ratio: 7.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,855 of 15,516
More affordable than 4% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#10,911 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 7.4×, Manhasset sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,855 of 15,516 and #10,911 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
$180,776Manhasset, NY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Manhasset, 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 Manhasset, NY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)68.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)60.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
7,730
Median Income
$180,776
Median Home Value
$1,338,700
Median Age
44.7
Poverty Rate
2.7%
Labor force participation
60.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
68.2%
Schools
Total Schools
4
Public schools in this city
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
55.8%
Carpool
2.2%
Public Transit
22.6%
Walk
1.9%
Work from Home
17.2%
Based on 3,750 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 Manhasset. 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 Manhasset 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 Manhasset sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Manhasset 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 ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.