East NorthportNY
A town of 19,700, settled in 1909.
Is East Northport a good place to live?
East Northport’s typical rent is $2,527 a month, where New York’s towns sit at $1,101 a month and U.S. towns at $1,185 a month. We don’t grade East Northport yet; the figures below are still real.
95% of working residents leave East Northport for work
Where East Northport’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2024
Central Park and 459 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around East Northport. Close and well known come first.
Big draw34 mi City parkCentral Park40.0M visitors a year
Big draw36 mi Stadium & arenaMadison Square Garden
Big draw35 mi TheatreStudio 54
Big draw40 mi Stadium & arenaMetLife Stadium
Big draw34 mi MuseumMetropolitan Museum of Art2.0M visitors a year
Big draw32 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 · MetLife Stadium: babyknight, CC BY 2.0 · Metropolitan Museum of Art: Hugo Schneider, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Yankee Stadium: Matt Boulton, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Moving to East Northport: who provides what
East Northport 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.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in East Northport.
East Northport’s typical home value is about $811K
The share of households in East Northport who own their home is 89%. A home in East Northport typically sold within 20 days of listing. Just over three quarters of the homes sold in East Northport went for more than their asking price.
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
The biggest natural risk in East Northport is inland flooding, at a very low overall level
The FEMA hazard score here in East Northport is 5 of 100. 60% of the town’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding, followed by hurricanes at 15%. All told, 9 flood insurance claims have been paid in the town since 1979.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
East Northport has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Only 5% of working residents stay in East Northport for work; the rest commute out. The town’s middle household income works out to $158,000. Since 2014, East Northport has lost 363 jobs, to 3,330 in 2024. Also worth knowing: 7% of East Northport residents live below the poverty line.
| East Northport | Typical New York town | Typical U.S. town | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $158,000 | $82,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 34 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 4.9% | 10% | 7.9% |
| Below the poverty line | 7% | 9.5% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2024 · ACS
The climate in East Northport brings four seasons and pleasant summers
The midsummer high for East Northport is 84°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
How healthy East Northport is
A fifth of adults get no exercise outside work in East Northport. Against the New York average, East Northport comes out ahead on 18 CDC measures out of 32, and behind on 1. Two figures for adults in the town: 28% feel lonely, 8.4% smoke cigarettes.
| East Northport | Typical New York town | Typical U.S. town | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 21% | 23% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 32% | 33% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 8.4% | 13% | 14% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 14% | 14% |
| What stands out | East Northport | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 8.4% | 17.2% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 7.9% | 14.5% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.5% | 7.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Protected land: 2.8% of East Northport
In 4 parks and preserves, walkers have 1.5 miles of trail. Between them, the parks and preserves give East Northport 30 acres of open land. Its density of trails is 0.3 miles per square mile.
| East Northport | Typical New York town | Typical U.S. town | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 2.8% | 5.2% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.3 miles per square mile | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Caravan Park | 0.5 mi | 12 |
| 2. Northport Rail Trail | 0.1 mi | 9 |
| 3. John J. Walsh Memorial Park | — | 8 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about East Northport
Colleges nearby
7 within 15 miles of the center of East Northport
About 5 of every 100 East Northport residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across New York.
East Northport’s neighbors
8 towns share a border with East Northport.
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Northport | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Fort Salonga | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Northport | #21 | A+ | D− | A | A | A+ |
| Huntington | #61 | A | D− | — | A | A+ |
| Smithtown | #76 | A | D− | — | A | A |
| Centerport | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Kings Park | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Commack | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Huntington and Smithtown report no FBI crime data of their own. East Northport, Fort Salonga, Centerport, Kings Park and Commack aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare East Northport with a neighbor →
Questions about East Northport
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is East Northport, NY a good place to live?
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