LI communities ranked by income (Massapequa, Lynbrook: credit, median income, stats)
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The list doesn't tell the whole story, much like everything else printed by newsday.
My husband builds super-luxury homes in the Hamptons & I assure you not too many people in Sagaponak earn under 100k, but 90% of the homes are second or third residences.
Here in little ol' Ridge more than half of our population are seniors so that skews our overall number. Even so I like living in a place where I'm on the top of the food chain, not the bottom.
The list doesn't tell the whole story, much like everything else printed by newsday.
My husband builds super-luxury homes in the Hamptons & I assure you not too many people in Sagaponak earn under 100k, but 90% of the homes are second or third residences.
Here in little ol' Ridge more than half of our population are seniors so that skews our overall number. Even so I like living in a place where I'm on the top of the food chain, not the bottom.
You hit the nail on the head. The income of second homeowners isn't factored into the numbers in areas we know are expensive. The less affluent year round people are the only ones counted. The list was about income and not hone value so in a way it is right.
Areas with large population density like pequaman wrote are also going to have skewed figures.
It is all fun. Should we really take Newsday as Bible chapter and verse?
Aw jeez! He did see the list. Let me read the drama on how much he will nitpik and attack it. Time for the popcorn.
BTW, in my observation the list seems to be pretty accurate.
I know youre new here but I assure you that Wading River(particularly the Riverhead side) in not more affluent then Quogue.Neither is RP MP or SB either
266 Quogue $66,821 22,974 WTF?
The data is way, way off and it seems to be more off the further east it goes.
Montauk 244 or my personal favorite, Sag Harbor 259 Somebody oughta tell Oprah and Mr Joel theyre poor
Im not trying to nit pick but wrong is wrong and Newsday really ought to source/parse its Census data better and by date.
The reason for the discrepancy is lower income areas tend to have larger "household" and family sizes. The median household size for LI is about 3.00.
Some areas have as high as 4.00+ and others like Quogue, are well below the 3.00 median. Also, it can be misleading as some hamlets and villages have a higher household composition of children. What this means is some areas have a larger workforce, while similarly sized areas have a higher concentration of children under 16; which skews the median household income relative to towns near the median for LI.
For instance:
Baldwin - Average household size 3.21
Average family size 3.73
In labor force (population 16 years and over) 13,170(70.2%)
Massapequa Park - Average household size 3.19
Average family size 3.55
In labor force (population 16 years and over) 8,559(62.5%)
The data is not WAY OFF as Crooks is claiming, just because Rocky Point fell in the 200's. It is real data and close to your true rank, but the rankings are slightly misleading (+/- 50 spots at most I would estimate for some towns) and Newsday should probably be focusing on other data points that give a clearer picture of real incomes in each area (like workforce/% of population in workforce). RP is really <200 if you look at the breadwinner income (median income for full time employee, usually the male) and Massapequa Park is likely <100 if you factor in the higher concentration of children and lower # of workers in each household.
Thinking in another direction -- Old Field is 9 on the list and is a very small community within the Setauket zip code. Poquott, a small community also Setauket zip, as broken out and did well in the rankings, too at #31. Meanwhile Setauket-East Setauket -- a much larger area in that same 11733 zip -- lagged behind at 86. Stony Brook, smaller than Setauket-East Setauket scored 75.
Had this been calculated by zips as opposed to CDP, collectively Setauket's score would have been more in line, or better than, Stony Brook.
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