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SheetNY-UNIONDALE-NY · Uniondale, NY 33,637 pop · income 85th 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 Uniondale
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Uniondale on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Gadsden · lowest
38,699
Gadsden · lowest
38,699 median HH income
22.2% of the leader · rank #1
Menominee · near
115,000
Menominee · near
115,000 median HH income
65.9% of the leader · rank #2
Grand Beach · near
115,000
Grand Beach · near
115,000 median HH income
65.9% of the leader · rank #3
Uniondale · this city
115,037
Uniondale · this city
115,037 median HH income
65.9% of the leader · rank #4
Hackberry · near
115,054
Hackberry · near
115,054 median HH income
65.9% of the leader · rank #5
Glenmont · near
115,058
Glenmont · near
115,058 median HH income
65.9% of the leader · rank #6
New · highest
174,479
New · highest
174,479 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 Uniondale 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: 33,637.
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Uniondale places in the 85th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
85th
percentile, household income
85th
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: Uniondale, NY
New York's Uniondale is a small city, with 33,637 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in Uniondale brings in $115,037 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 5.3%. Typical homes in Uniondale are valued around $511,300, and the median resident age is 35.0 years. About 26.5% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 56.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The city is served by 7 public schools according to NCES Common Core of Data.
New York carries a cost-of-living premium: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts New York at 107.9 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Above Average). 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 Uniondale workers runs 30.8 minutes, with 59.9% driving alone and 8.3% working from home. 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 Uniondale'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 housing and income to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Uniondale, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Uniondale?
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 4.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.3%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Uniondale?
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 Baldwin (33,595 residents, $139,840 income); Huntington Station (33,283 residents, $129,121 income); New (34,133 residents, $174,479 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Alabaster, AL (33,633 residents); Kennesaw, GA (33,627 residents); Gadsden, AL (33,617 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Uniondale?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 59.9%. The reported mean trip to work is 30.8 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.
What does the education layer cover for Uniondale?
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 7 public schools within the city match. 26.5% 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.
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-
$115,037
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate C+
5.3%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share C-
26.5%
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).
Uniondale profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 84/100 (A-) · $115,037
Poverty rate: 63/100 (C+) · 5.3%
Bachelor's+ share: 52/100 (C-) · 26.5%
Cost of living: 12/100 (F) · 107.9 index
How does Uniondale compare to other US cities?
Uniondale measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income85% higher than other cities
Home value85% 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 Uniondale 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 Uniondale near the bottom of New York's cities
Among the 1,256 New York cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Uniondale ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Uniondale only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#343 of 1,205
72nd percentile in New York
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,256
0th percentile in New York
Median Home Value
#305 of 1,202
75th percentile in New York
Poverty Rate
#566 of 1,246
54th percentile in New York
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#791 of 1,254
37th 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
85th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Uniondale's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$511,30015th percentilemore affordable than 15% 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
Uniondale's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#11,859 of 15,516
More affordable than 24% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,308 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.4×, Uniondale sits in the moderate band:
national rank #11,859 of 15,516 and #2,308 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
$115,037Uniondale, NY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Uniondale, 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 Uniondale, NY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)26.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)56.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
33,637
Median Income
$115,037
Median Home Value
$511,300
Median Age
35.0
Poverty Rate
5.3%
Labor force participation
56.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
26.5%
Schools
Total Schools
7
Public schools in this city
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
30.8 minutes
Drive Alone
59.9%
Carpool
15.0%
Public Transit
10.7%
Walk
5.4%
Work from Home
8.3%
Other
0.7%
Based on 15,284 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 Uniondale. 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 Uniondale 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 Uniondale sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Uniondale 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.