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SheetNY-WOODMERE-NY · Woodmere, NY 18,198 pop · income 97th pct · 725 tracts
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 Woodmere
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Woodmere on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Amsterdam · lowest
50,193
Amsterdam · lowest
50,193 median HH income
26.7% of the leader · rank #1
Norbourne Est… · near
174,844
Norbourne Est… · near
174,844 median HH income
93.0% of the leader · rank #2
Woodmere · this city
174,942
Woodmere · this city
174,942 median HH income
93.1% of the leader · rank #3
Mettawa · near
175,074
Mettawa · near
175,074 median HH income
93.2% of the leader · rank #4
Palm Beach · near
175,078
Palm Beach · near
175,078 median HH income
93.2% of the leader · rank #5
Demarest · near
175,078
Demarest · near
175,078 median HH income
93.2% of the leader · rank #6
Syosset · highest
187,936
Syosset · highest
187,936 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 Woodmere 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: 18,198.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Woodmere lands in the 97th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
97th
percentile, household income
97th
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: Woodmere, NY
New York's Woodmere is a small town, with 18,198 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Woodmere households earn a median of $174,942 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 1.6%. Home values in Woodmere run a median of $944,400, and the median resident age is 33.2 years. Educational attainment runs 66.7% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 61.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
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 Woodmere workers runs 33.4 minutes, with 58.0% driving alone and 20.1% working from home. 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 Woodmere'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 within-city variation to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Woodmere, city-specific coverage includes within-city Census tract profiles, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for matched public-school count, local building permits, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Within-city variation
What can 725 Census tracts reveal inside Woodmere?
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
PlainCities matches 725 Census tracts to this city.
Which cities make useful reference points for Woodmere?
Within New York, the closest population matches are North Babylon (18,208 residents, $130,293 income); Amsterdam (18,162 residents, $50,193 income); Syosset (18,274 residents, $187,936 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Manchester, MO (18,189 residents); Colonial Heights, VA (18,210 residents); Spanish Lake, MO (18,183 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Woodmere?
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 58.0%. The reported mean trip to work is 33.4 minutes.
How far does income reach against housing in Woodmere?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 5.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 1.6%, 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.
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+
$174,942
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A+
66.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate A
1.6%
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).
Woodmere profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 100/100 (A+) · $174,942
Bachelor's+ share: 96/100 (A+) · 66.7%
Poverty rate: 89/100 (A) · 1.6%
Cost of living: 12/100 (F) · 107.9 index
How does Woodmere compare to other US cities?
Woodmere 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 value97% 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 Woodmere 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 Woodmere near the bottom of New York's cities
Among the 1,256 New York cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Woodmere ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Woodmere only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#101 of 1,205
92nd percentile in New York
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,256
0th percentile in New York
Median Home Value
#95 of 1,202
92nd percentile in New York
Poverty Rate
#939 of 1,246
24th percentile in New York
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#131 of 1,254
89th 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 Woodmere's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$944,4003rd percentilemore affordable than 3% 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
Woodmere's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,444 of 15,516
More affordable than 13% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,776 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 5.4×, Woodmere sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,444 of 15,516 and #2,776 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
$174,942Woodmere, NY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Woodmere, 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 Woodmere, NY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)66.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)1.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)61.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
18,198
Median Income
$174,942
Median Home Value
$944,400
Median Age
33.2
Poverty Rate
1.6%
Labor force participation
61.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
66.7%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
33.4 minutes
Drive Alone
58.0%
Carpool
4.2%
Public Transit
14.8%
Walk
1.1%
Work from Home
20.1%
Other
1.8%
Based on 7,676 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 Woodmere. 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 Woodmere 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 Woodmere sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Woodmere 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, 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.