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SheetNY-SAYVILLE-NY · Sayville, NY 15,593 pop · income 93rd 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 Sayville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Sayville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
West Lealman · lowest
48,965
West Lealman · lowest
48,965 median HH income
30.8% of the leader · rank #1
Belfry · near
145,234
Belfry · near
145,234 median HH income
91.3% of the leader · rank #2
Lake Tapps · near
145,250
Lake Tapps · near
145,250 median HH income
91.3% of the leader · rank #3
Sayville · this city
145,278
Sayville · this city
145,278 median HH income
91.3% of the leader · rank #4
Wooster · near
145,282
Wooster · near
145,282 median HH income
91.3% of the leader · rank #5
Indian Wells · near
145,313
Indian Wells · near
145,313 median HH income
91.3% of the leader · rank #6
Bellmore · highest
159,158
Bellmore · highest
159,158 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 Sayville 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: 15,593.
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Sayville places in the 93rd percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
93rd
percentile, household income
90th
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: Sayville, NY
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 15,593 residents in Sayville, a small town within New York. Sayville households earn a median of $145,278 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.6%. Typical homes in Sayville are valued around $615,700, and the median resident age is 44.6 years. Educational attainment runs 54.0% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 62.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The city is served by 3 public schools according to NCES Common Core of Data.
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. 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. The average commute for Sayville workers runs 26.5 minutes, with 77.9% driving alone and 13.4% working from home. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 69.4 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Sayville'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 schools and households to housing and income to work and mobility to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Sayville, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Sayville?
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 3 public schools within the city match. 54.0% 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Sayville?
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 4.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.6%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the journey to work look like in Sayville?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 77.9%. The reported mean trip to work is 26.5 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. 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Sayville?
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 Bellmore (15,652 residents, $159,158 income); Batavia (15,494 residents, $57,150 income); Eggertsville (15,416 residents, $82,359 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Hartselle, AL (15,586 residents); Hudson, MA (15,610 residents); Mays Chapel, MD (15,616 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.
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+
$145,278
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A
54.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate A-
2.6%
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).
Sayville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 95/100 (A+) · $145,278
Bachelor's+ share: 87/100 (A) · 54.0%
Poverty rate: 81/100 (A-) · 2.6%
Cost of living: 12/100 (F) · 107.9 index
How does Sayville compare to other US cities?
Where Sayville sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income93% higher than other cities
Home value90% 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 Sayville 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 Sayville near the bottom of New York's cities
Among the 1,256 New York cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Sayville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Sayville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#189 of 1,205
84th percentile in New York
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,256
0th percentile in New York
Median Home Value
#231 of 1,202
81st percentile in New York
Poverty Rate
#822 of 1,246
33rd percentile in New York
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#261 of 1,254
79th 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
93rd percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Sayville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$615,70010th percentilemore affordable than 10% 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
Sayville's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#11,351 of 15,516
More affordable than 27% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,172 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.2×, Sayville sits in the moderate band:
national rank #11,351 of 15,516 and #2,172 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$145,278Sayville, NY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Sayville, 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 Sayville, NY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)54.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)62.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
15,593
Median Income
$145,278
Median Home Value
$615,700
Median Age
44.6
Poverty Rate
2.6%
Labor force participation
62.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
54.0%
Schools
Total Schools
3
Public schools in this city
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
26.5 minutes
Drive Alone
77.9%
Carpool
3.4%
Public Transit
3.7%
Walk
0.7%
Work from Home
13.4%
Other
0.9%
Based on 7,810 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 Sayville. 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 Sayville 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 Sayville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Sayville 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.