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SheetNY-SEAFORD-NY · Seaford, NY 15,884 pop · income 95th 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 Seaford
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Seaford on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Humacao zona… · lowest
21,366
Humacao zona… · lowest
21,366 median HH income
13.4% of the leader · rank #1
Sierra Ridge · near
156,456
Sierra Ridge · near
156,456 median HH income
98.3% of the leader · rank #2
Camanche · near
156,480
Camanche · near
156,480 median HH income
98.3% of the leader · rank #3
Seaford · this city
156,488
Seaford · this city
156,488 median HH income
98.3% of the leader · rank #4
Wyoming · near
156,518
Wyoming · near
156,518 median HH income
98.3% of the leader · rank #5
Manasquan · near
156,542
Manasquan · near
156,542 median HH income
98.4% 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 Seaford 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: 15,884.
Seaford ranks in the 95th percentile for household income nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS.
95th
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: Seaford, NY
New York's Seaford is a small town, with 15,884 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in Seaford brings in $156,488 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 1.7%. Home values in Seaford run a median of $631,000, and the median resident age is 40.4 years. About 43.6% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 64.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The city is served by 5 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. 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 Seaford'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 comparison shortlist to housing and income to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Seaford, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count.
No matched row is reported here for annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits, 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 Seaford?
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 65.6%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Which cities make useful reference points for Seaford?
Within New York, the closest population matches are Westbury (15,789 residents, $136,917 income); Floral Park (16,025 residents, $150,350 income); Bellmore (15,652 residents, $159,158 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Parkway, CA (15,880 residents); Frederick, CO (15,893 residents); Live Oak, TX (15,875 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Seaford?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 1.7%, 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.
The NCES join finds 5 public schools within the city match. 43.6% 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.
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+
$156,488
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate A
1.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share B+
43.6%
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).
Seaford profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 98/100 (A+) · $156,488
Poverty rate: 88/100 (A) · 1.7%
Bachelor's+ share: 78/100 (B+) · 43.6%
Cost of living: 12/100 (F) · 107.9 index
How does Seaford compare to other US cities?
Here's how Seaford stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income95% 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 Seaford 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 Seaford near the bottom of New York's cities
Among the 1,256 New York cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Seaford ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Seaford only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#147 of 1,205
88th percentile in New York
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,256
0th percentile in New York
Median Home Value
#211 of 1,202
82nd percentile in New York
Poverty Rate
#924 of 1,246
25th percentile in New York
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#422 of 1,254
66th 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
95th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Seaford's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$631,00010th 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
Seaford's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,800 of 15,516
More affordable than 30% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,012 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.0×, Seaford sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,800 of 15,516 and #2,012 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
$156,488Seaford, NY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Seaford, 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 Seaford, NY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)43.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)1.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)64.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
15,884
Median Income
$156,488
Median Home Value
$631,000
Median Age
40.4
Poverty Rate
1.7%
Labor force participation
64.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
43.6%
Schools
Total Schools
5
Public schools in this city
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
65.6%
Carpool
6.5%
Public Transit
17.2%
Walk
0.6%
Work from Home
9.9%
Based on 8,158 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 Seaford. 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 Seaford 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 Seaford sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Seaford 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.