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SheetNY-SLEEPY-HOLLOW-NY · Sleepy Hollow, NY 10,592 pop · income 79th 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 Sleepy Hollow
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Sleepy Hollow on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Ironton · lowest
45,694
Ironton · lowest
45,694 median HH income
36.0% of the leader · rank #1
Spokane · near
101,641
Spokane · near
101,641 median HH income
80.0% of the leader · rank #2
Rainier · near
101,644
Rainier · near
101,644 median HH income
80.0% of the leader · rank #3
Sleepy Hollow · this city
101,652
Sleepy Hollow · this city
101,652 median HH income
80.0% of the leader · rank #4
Jarrell · near
101,653
Jarrell · near
101,653 median HH income
80.0% of the leader · rank #5
Ortonville · near
101,667
Ortonville · near
101,667 median HH income
80.0% of the leader · rank #6
Lake Morton-B… · highest
127,074
Lake Morton-B… · highest
127,074 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 Sleepy Hollow 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: 10,592.
Nationally, Sleepy Hollow sits in the 79th percentile for household income among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS.
79th
percentile, household income
94th
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: Sleepy Hollow, NY
10,592 people live in Sleepy Hollow, New York - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $101,652 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 5.9%. Home values in Sleepy Hollow run a median of $756,700, and the median resident age is 39.6 years. About 41.4% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 62.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 3 residential building permits were authorized in Sleepy Hollow (Construction Slowdown), down 92% from five years earlier, per Census BPS 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. 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). 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 Sleepy Hollow'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 work and mobility to comparison shortlist to housing and income to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Sleepy Hollow, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, local building permits.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What does the education layer cover for Sleepy Hollow?
The NCES join finds 3 public schools within the city match. 41.4% 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Sleepy Hollow?
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 45.6%. 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 Sleepy Hollow?
Within New York, the closest population matches are Scotchtown (10,544 residents, $92,889 income); Canandaigua (10,542 residents, $63,268 income); West Haverstraw (10,663 residents, $86,167 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Lake Morton-Berrydale, WA (10,591 residents); Bonham, TX (10,594 residents); Le Mars, IA (10,597 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 Sleepy Hollow?
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 5.9%, 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. 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.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Population change
Is Sleepy Hollow 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 +1,507 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +15.1% 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.
Period change
+15.1%
2025 estimate
11,474
2020 estimate
9,967
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
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 B+
$101,652
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share B+
41.4%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate C+
5.9%
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).
Sleepy Hollow profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 78/100 (B+) · $101,652
Bachelor's+ share: 76/100 (B+) · 41.4%
Poverty rate: 60/100 (C+) · 5.9%
Cost of living: 12/100 (F) · 107.9 index
How does Sleepy Hollow compare to other US cities?
Sleepy Hollow measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income79% higher than other cities
Home value94% 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 Sleepy Hollow 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 Sleepy Hollow near the bottom of New York's cities
Among the 1,256 New York cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Sleepy Hollow ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Sleepy Hollow only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#428 of 1,205
64th percentile in New York
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,256
0th percentile in New York
Median Home Value
#145 of 1,202
88th percentile in New York
Poverty Rate
#521 of 1,246
58th percentile in New York
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#458 of 1,254
63rd 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
79th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Sleepy Hollow's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$756,7006th percentilemore affordable than 6% 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
Sleepy Hollow's home-value-to-income ratio: 7.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,866 of 15,516
More affordable than 4% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#3,163 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 7.4×, Sleepy Hollow sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,866 of 15,516 and #3,163 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$101,652Sleepy Hollow, NY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Sleepy Hollow, 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 Sleepy Hollow, NY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)41.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)62.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
10,592
Median Income
$101,652
Median Home Value
$756,700
Median Age
39.6
Poverty Rate
5.9%
Labor force participation
62.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
41.4%
Schools
Total Schools
3
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Sleepy Hollow's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
9,967 residents
2021
11,005 residents
2022
11,032 residents
2023
11,036 residents
2024
11,440 residents
2025
11,474 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
3
housing units authorized
Single-Family
0
detached homes
Multifamily
3
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
40
23
17
$9.3M
2020
446
10
436
$66.5M
2021
64
35
29
$20.4M
2022
21
19
2
$6.8M
2023
126
21
105
$51.7M
2024
3
0
3
$0.4M
Permit volume decreased 92% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
45.6%
Carpool
7.4%
Public Transit
18.0%
Walk
6.1%
Work from Home
19.8%
Other
3.1%
Based on 5,302 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 Sleepy Hollow. 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 Sleepy Hollow 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 Sleepy Hollow sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Sleepy Hollow 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 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.