You can find out in which community (city, village or CDP) a house is actually located, which is oftentimes different from the community named in that house's mailing address, by using the Census Bureau's
online address search function. (CDP, or
Census
Designated
Place, is the Census Bureau equivalent for a hamlet in Nassau and Suffolk Counties.)
And,
very importantly, among other things, the Census Bureau's
online address search function also indicates in which school district an address is located.