Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
77% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in Cold Spring Harbor, against 32% in New York’s towns and 29% across U.S. towns. Only 5 of the 759 New York towns we compare have a lower share of residents below the poverty line than Cold Spring Harbor. Cold Spring Harbor’s trail density is 1.9 miles per square mile, above both the New York town median (0.4) and the median of U.S. towns (0.4). The biggest park or preserve is Froehlich Farms Nature Preserve, at 127 acres. We don’t grade Cold Spring Harbor yet; the figures below are still real.
Where Cold Spring Harbor beats most towns.
5,070 counted in 2010 and 3,064 in 2020.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts
Census counts: 4,975 in 2000, 3,064 in 2020. The archive holds 16 old photos and papers going back to 1873 and 5 maps from 1901 on.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Cold Spring Harbor. Close and well known come first.
Big draw27 mi GardenCentral Park40.0M visitors a year
Big draw29 mi Stadium & arenaMadison Square Garden
Big draw28 mi TheatreStudio 54
Big draw27 mi MuseumMetropolitan Museum of Art2.0M visitors a year
Big draw33 mi Stadium & arenaMetLife Stadium
Big draw25 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
Cold Spring Harbor 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 Cold Spring Harbor.
The typical Cold Spring Harbor home is worth about $1,901,000, up 8.9% in a year, 4 times the New York typical home. 94% of households own their home in Cold Spring Harbor.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 82% of U.S. communities. Since 2017, 4 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Cold Spring Harbor.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
6.8 miles of trail in 7 parks and preserves.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Uplands Farm Sanctuary | 2.9 mi | 86 |
| 2. Trail View State Park | 1.2 mi | 56 |
| 3. Cold Spring Harbor State Park | 0.9 mi | 44 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Cold Spring Harbor has chilly, snowy winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 84°, January nights drop to 25° and about 32 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
The median household income in Cold Spring Harbor is $250,000. Jobs based in Cold Spring Harbor fell to 943 in 2023, 914 fewer than in 2013. The average trip to work in Cold Spring Harbor is 34 minutes.
| Cold Spring Harbor | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $250,000 | $82,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 34 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 3.9% | 10% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
5.7% of Cold Spring Harbor adults smoke cigarettes. Only 10 of the 756 New York towns we compare have a lower share of adults who get no exercise outside work than Cold Spring Harbor. 18% of Cold Spring Harbor adults binge drink.
| Cold Spring Harbor | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 5.7% | 13% | 14% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 8.9% | 14% | 14% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 26% | 32% | 33% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 16% | 17% |
| What stands out | Cold Spring Harbor | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 5.3% | 17.2% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 2.9% | 7.9% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.8% | 7.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
13 within 15 miles of the center of Cold Spring Harbor
About 7 of every 100 Cold Spring Harbor residents are enrolled in college, about the same as New York.
5 notable people were born in Cold Spring Harbor.
Hamlet and census-designated place in New York, United States
Cold Spring Harbor is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Huntington, in Suffolk County, on the North Shore of Long Island in New York. As of the 2020 census, Cold Spring Harbor had a population of 3,064.
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6 towns share a border with Cold Spring Harbor.
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cold Spring Harbor | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lloyd Harbor | #40 | A+ | D | — | A+ | A+ |
| Huntington | #61 | A | D− | — | A | A+ |
| Oyster Bay | — | — | D− | — | — | A+ |
| Laurel Hollow | — | — | D | — | A+ | A+ |
| West Hills | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Woodbury | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Laurel Hollow has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Lloyd Harbor, Huntington, Oyster Bay and Laurel Hollow report no FBI crime data of their own. Cold Spring Harbor, Oyster Bay, West Hills and Woodbury aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Cold Spring Harbor with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
We don’t grade Cold Spring Harbor yet; the figures below are still real.
5 notable people were born here, including Alex Grendi and Alex Foxen.
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