Cove NeckNY
A town of 293.
Is Cove Neck a good place to live?
The biggest park or preserve is Oyster Bay National Wildlife Refuge, at 212 acres. Cove Neck has fewer than 1,000 residents, too few for fair grades; the figures below are still real.
Cove Neck lives by the ocean
Coastal flooding makes up 9% of the storm damage FEMA expects here.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA · OpenStreetMap
Central Park and 507 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Cove Neck. Close and well known come first.
Big draw26 mi City parkCentral Park40.0M visitors a year
Big draw28 mi Stadium & arenaMadison Square Garden
Big draw27 mi TheatreStudio 54
Big draw25 mi MuseumMetropolitan Museum of Art2.0M visitors a year
Big draw31 mi Stadium & arenaMetLife Stadium
Big draw23 mi Stadium & arenaYankee StadiumPhoto credits
Central 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
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Moving to Cove Neck: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Cove Neck, 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.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Cove Neck.
Cove Neck faces a very low natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
In Cove Neck, the FEMA hazard score is 12 of 100, where New York’s towns sit at 31 of 100 and U.S. towns at 44 of 100. Since 1991, 4 flood insurance claims have been paid out locally. FEMA puts 63% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 14% to hurricanes.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Nearly a quarter of Cove Neck is conserved land
There are 0.9 miles of trail across 2 parks and preserves. Cove Neck’s density of trails is 0.6 miles per square mile.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Sagamore Hill National Historic Site | 0.9 mi | 87 |
| 2. Oyster Bay National Wildlife Refuge | — | 212 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
The median household income in Cove Neck is higher than in the typical New York or U.S. town
Cove Neck’s average commute comes in at 34 minutes. Half the trips to work are shorter than 14 miles. The top destinations are New York (34%), Oyster Bay (23%) and North Hempstead (12%).
| Cove Neck | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $238,000 | $82,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 34 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 7.9% | 9.5% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Cove Neck: four seasons and pleasant summers
Expect July afternoons of 84° and January nights of 25°, with about 19 inches of snow a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
A smaller share of adults report frequent mental distress in Cove Neck than in most of New York or the rest of the country
Just over a tenth of Cove Neck adults say their health is fair or poor. Among 756 New York towns, just 7 have a lower share of adults who worry about having enough food than Cove Neck. CDC measures, 32 in all: Cove Neck beats New York on 22 and trails on 2.
| Cove Neck | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 21% | 23% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 16% | 17% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 6.3% | 13% | 14% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 32% | 33% |
| What stands out | Cove Neck | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 5.3% | 17.2% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 5.7% | 14.5% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 11.9% | 7.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Everything we know about Cove Neck
Colleges nearby
14 within 15 miles of the center of Cove Neck
About 7 of every 100 Cove Neck residents are enrolled in college, about the same as New York.
293 people, and everyone knows the way
In a town this size, neighbors are the best guide. Ask them anything.
About Cove Neck
Village in New York, United States
Cove Neck is a village located within the Town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, on the North Shore of Long Island, in New York. As of the 2020 census, Cove Neck had a population of 293.
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- Area
- 1.6 sq mi
- Elevation
- 23 ft
Questions about Cove Neck
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Cove Neck, NY a good place to live?
Cove Neck has fewer than 1,000 residents, too few for fair grades; the figures below are still real.