Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Home to 26 notable people. With 31,683 residents, this town was settled in 1868.
Bay Shore’s median rent is $2,063 a month, above both New York’s towns ($1,101 a month) and U.S. towns ($1,185 a month). We don’t grade Bay Shore yet; the figures below are still real.
Where Bay Shore beats most towns.
Coastal flooding makes up 16% of the storm damage FEMA expects here.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA · OpenStreetMap
Census counts: 21,279 in 1990, 29,244 in 2020. The archive holds 6 old photos and papers going back to 1888 and 3 maps from 1904 on.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Bay Shore. Close and well known come first.
Big draw38 mi City parkCentral Park40.0M visitors a year
Big draw39 mi Stadium & arenaMadison Square Garden
Big draw39 mi TheatreStudio 54
Big draw38 mi MuseumMetropolitan Museum of Art2.0M visitors a year
Big draw36 mi Stadium & arenaYankee Stadium
Big draw40 mi BeachConey IslandCentral Park: Ed Yourdon from New York City, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Madison Square Garden: Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA, CC BY 2.0 · Studio 54: Americasroof (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Metropolitan Museum of Art: Hugo Schneider, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Yankee Stadium: Matt Boulton, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Coney Island: OptimumPx, Public domain
Bay Shore is unincorporated, so Suffolk County and regional agencies provide most services.
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 Bay Shore.
Compared with 90% of U.S. communities, expected storm and flood damage in Bay Shore is lower. 118 flood insurance claims have been paid here since 1991. Nearly half of the town’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding, followed by coastal flooding at 16%.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Bay Shore: 63% of households own their home. In the year to September 2026, typical home values climbed 5.9%. On the market locally: a median 30 days to sell.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Bay Shore’s peak summer temperature is 83°F.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Half the trips to work are shorter than 12 miles. Employers in Bay Shore added 2,606 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 15,709. Commuting out is the norm here: 8% of working residents work locally. The town’s typical household income stands at $106,000.
| Bay Shore | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $106,000 | $82,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 26 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Work from home | 9.9% | 12% | 11% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
The share of adults in Bay Shore who get no exercise outside work: 28%. CDC measures, 32 in all: Bay Shore beats New York on 6 and trails on 5. Just over two in five adults in Bay Shore sleep under 7 hours; 20% worry about having enough food.
| Bay Shore | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 21% | 23% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 42% | 37% | 36% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 13% | 14% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 5.9% | 8.1% |
| What stands out | Bay Shore | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 9.6% | 12.8% |
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 6.5% | 7.7% |
| More uninsured adults | 11% | 7.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
2.6 miles of trail wind through 7 parks and preserves. Bay Shore’s trail network density comes in at 0.4 miles per square mile.
| Bay Shore | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 1.6% | 5.2% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.4 miles per square mile | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Bay Shore Marina Park | 0.6 mi | 13 |
| 2. Casamento Park | 0.4 mi | 13 |
| 3. Delta Park | — | 4 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
5 within 15 miles of the center of Bay Shore
About 5 of every 100 Bay Shore residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across New York.
26,337 counted in 2010 and 29,244 in 2020.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts
26 notable people were born in Bay Shore.
Hamlet and census-designated place in New York, United States
Bay Shore is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Islip, New York, United States. It is situated on the South Shore of Long Island, adjoining the Great South Bay. The population of the CDP was 29,244 at the time of the 2020 census.
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5 towns share a border with Bay Shore.
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bay Shore | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Brightwaters | #158 | A− | D | — | B− | A+ |
| North Bay Shore | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| West Bay Shore | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Baywood | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| West Islip | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Brightwaters reports no FBI crime data of its own. Bay Shore, North Bay Shore, West Bay Shore, Baywood and West Islip aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Bay Shore with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
We don’t grade Bay Shore yet; the figures below are still real.
26 notable people were born here, including Saul Kripke and Nan Hoover.
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