Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
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 City parkCentral 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.
Home values are up 8.9% over the year to September 2026. Cold Spring Harbor: 94% of households own their home.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
In Cold Spring Harbor, the FEMA risk score is 18 of 100. Since 2017, 4 flood insurance claims have been paid out here. Expected losses in Cold Spring Harbor break down as 70% from inland flooding and 12% from hurricanes.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
In 7 parks and preserves, walkers have 6.8 miles of trail.
| 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
The peak summer temperature is 84°F.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
1.5% of residents live below the poverty line in Cold Spring Harbor, where New York’s towns sit at 9.5% and U.S. towns at 9.6%. Jobs here fell by 914 from 2013 to 2023, to 943. Its average trip to work comes in at 34 minutes. For most workers, Cold Spring Harbor is a place to come home to: only 4% work in town.
| 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 |
| Below the poverty line | 1.5% | 9.5% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 3.9% | 10% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
For adults in Cold Spring Harbor, the share who report frequent physical distress is 8.9%. 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. CDC measures, 32 in all: Cold Spring Harbor beats New York on 23 and trails on 1.
| 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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