Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 1,723, settled in 1928.
The best of Atlantic Beach’s subject grades are an A+ for incomes, walkability, and health; the weakest is a D− for cost of living. Atlantic Beach’s median rent is $3,501 a month, above both New York’s towns ($1,101 a month) and U.S. towns ($1,185 a month). Only 5 of New York’s 1,216 towns score higher on incomes. On history, just 28 of New York’s 1,216 towns do worse. Atlantic Beach has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Where Atlantic Beach beats most towns.
| Widest gap | Atlantic Beach | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 5.3% | 17.2% |
Where Atlantic Beach’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New York), ordered by how far Atlantic Beach is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 1,640 in 1970, 1,707 in 2020. The archive holds 15 old photos and papers going back to 1917 and 6 maps from 1897 on.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Atlantic Beach. Close and well known come first.
Big draw18 mi Stadium & arenaMadison Square Garden
Big draw19 mi GardenCentral Park40.0M visitors a year
Big draw14 mi BeachConey Island
Big draw18 mi TheatreStudio 54
Big draw18 mi MuseumMetropolitan Museum of Art2.0M visitors a year
Big draw24 mi Stadium & arenaMetLife StadiumMadison Square Garden: Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA, CC BY 2.0 · Central Park: Ed Yourdon from New York City, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Coney Island: OptimumPx, Public domain · Studio 54: Americasroof (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Metropolitan Museum of Art: Hugo Schneider, CC BY-SA 2.0 · MetLife Stadium: babyknight, CC BY 2.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Atlantic Beach, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Aug 3, 2026.
Ordered by what stands out in Atlantic Beach.
The typical Atlantic Beach home is worth about $1,498,000, up 9.2% in a year, 3 times the New York typical home. 85% of Atlantic Beach households own their home, above both the New York town median (75%) and the median of U.S. towns (73%).
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
11% of Atlantic Beach adults report frequent mental distress. Atlantic Beach beats the New York average on 21 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 3. 27% of Atlantic Beach adults feel lonely.
| Atlantic Beach | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 16% | 17% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 21% | 23% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 6.2% | 13% | 14% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 32% | 33% |
| What stands out | Atlantic Beach | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 5.3% | 17.2% |
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 4.5% | 12.8% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 13.5% | 7.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
1.8% of residents live below the poverty line in Atlantic Beach. Since 2013, Atlantic Beach has lost 61 jobs, to 308 in 2023. The median household income in Atlantic Beach is $166,000.
| Atlantic Beach | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 45 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $166,000 | $82,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 1.8% | 9.5% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 3.3% | 10% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Atlantic Beach has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 85°, January nights drop to 27° and about 26 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 64% of U.S. communities. Since 1989, 320 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Atlantic Beach.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
57 within 15 miles of the center of Atlantic Beach
About 2 of every 100 Atlantic Beach residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across New York.
Village in New York, United States
Atlantic Beach is a village located on the west end of the Long Beach Barrier Island in the Town of Hempstead, in Nassau County, New York, United States. The population was 1,707 at the time of the 2020 census. The Incorporated Village of Atlantic Beach is located on Long Beach Barrier Island – one of the outer barrier islands – which it shares with Long Beach, East Atlantic Beach, Lido Beach, and Point Lookout. It is a suburb of New York City and shares a maritime border with Far Rockaway, Queens. To the North, Atlantic Beach is bordered by Reynolds Channel and East Rockaway Inlet. Atlantic Beach is home to the oldest beach club in the United States, the Lawrence Beach Club. During the sum…
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4 towns share a border with Atlantic Beach.
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantic Beach | — | — | D− | — | C+ | A+ |
| East Atlantic Beach | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lawrence | #244 | B+ | D− | — | C+ | A+ |
| Hempstead | #118 | A | D− | — | A | A |
| New York | #651 | C− | D− | D | — | B+ |
Atlantic Beach has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Atlantic Beach, Lawrence and Hempstead report no FBI crime data of their own. East Atlantic Beach isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Atlantic Beach with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Yes. That is 15.1 years of the area's median household income ($99,155 across the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades D−.
2 notable people were born here, including Jax and Melissa Miller.
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