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A town of 17,123. Home to 15 notable people.
Bethpage’s median rent is $2,014 a month, against $1,101 a month in New York’s towns and $1,185 a month across U.S. towns. The biggest park or preserve is Bethpage State Park, at 37 acres. We don’t grade Bethpage yet; the figures below are still real.
Where Bethpage beats most towns.
Where Bethpage’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Census counts: 1,888 in 1930, 16,658 in 2020. The archive holds 12 old photos and papers going back to 1873 and a map from 1984 on.
Explore the history →Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Bethpage. Close and well known come first.
Big draw25 mi GardenCentral Park40.0M visitors a year
Big draw27 mi Stadium & arenaMadison Square Garden
Big draw26 mi TheatreStudio 54
Big draw25 mi MuseumMetropolitan Museum of Art2.0M visitors a year
Big draw31 mi Stadium & arenaMetLife Stadium
Big draw24 mi Stadium & arenaYankee StadiumCentral 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 · MetLife Stadium: babyknight, CC BY 2.0 · Yankee Stadium: Matt Boulton, CC BY-SA 2.0
Bethpage is unincorporated, so Nassau 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 Bethpage.
Most working residents leave Bethpage for work: only 6% work in town. At 33 minutes, Bethpage’s average trip to work is above both the New York town median (25 minutes) and the median of U.S. towns (25 minutes). Bethpage’s median household income is $122,000.
| Bethpage | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 33 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $122,000 | $82,000 | $80,000 |
| Work from home | 18% | 12% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 5.6% | 9.5% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 95% of U.S. communities. Since 1979, 7 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Bethpage.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The typical Bethpage home is worth about $785,000, up 5.4% in a year, 50% above the New York typical home. 91% of households own their home in Bethpage.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Bethpage has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 85°, January nights drop to 24° and about 19 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Adults 18 to 34 are 16% of residents (23% statewide); people 65 and older are 25% of residents (18% statewide). 43% of Bethpage adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more.
| Bethpage | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 47.4 years | 43 years | 40.5 years |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 43% | 32% | 29% |
| Aged 65 or older | 25% | 20% | 18% |
| Under 18 | 20% | 20% | 22% |
52% women, 48% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±2.5 points. Across New York, 51.2% of residents are women.
| Bethpage | NY | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 9.1% | 11% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 11.3% | 9.5% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 7.5% | 8.9% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 8.9% | 14.2% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 10.4% | 13% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 13.7% | 12.2% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 14.6% | 13.3% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 14% | 10.3% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 10.5% | 7.6% | 7% |
| No diploma | 6.4% | 12% | 10.4% |
| High school | 24.1% | 24.3% | 26% |
| Some college | 17.5% | 14.6% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 8.6% | 8.8% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 23.3% | 22.4% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 20.1% | 17.9% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
Bethpage beats the New York average on 19 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 1.
| Bethpage | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 21% | 23% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 16% | 17% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 8.5% | 13% | 14% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 33% | 35% |
| What stands out | Bethpage | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 6.4% | 12.8% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 8.9% | 17.2% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10.2% | 7.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
| Bethpage | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 3.3% | 5.2% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.5 miles per square mile | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Bethpage State Park | 0.6 mi | 37 |
| 2. Bethpage Community Park | — | 20 |
| 3. Apollo Park | — | 5 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
15 within 15 miles of the center of Bethpage
About 6 of every 100 Bethpage residents are enrolled in college, about the same as New York.
15 notable people were born in Bethpage.
Hamlet and census-designated place in New York, United States
Bethpage (formerly known as Central Park) is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) located within the Town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, on the South Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. The population was 16,658 at the time of the 2020 census.
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8 towns share a border with Bethpage.
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bethpage | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Old Bethpage | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Levittown | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Oyster Bay | — | — | D− | — | — | A+ |
| Hempstead | #118 | A | D− | — | A | A |
| Plainview | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Plainedge | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Hicksville | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Oyster Bay and Hempstead report no FBI crime data of their own. Bethpage, Old Bethpage, Levittown, Oyster Bay, Plainview, Plainedge and Hicksville aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Bethpage with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
We don’t grade Bethpage yet; the figures below are still real.
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