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A town of 2,616, settled in 1879.
East Williston is one of the best-graded places in America: an A+, 20th of 745 graded towns in New York. The median household earns $215K, on CDC health estimates it is near the top nationally, and its schools outperform 97% of the state's. The exception is cost of living: the typical home is worth about $1.4 million, 14.6 years of the New York metro’s $99K median household income. 68% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in East Williston, above both New York’s towns (32%) and U.S. towns (29%). East Williston is among the most walkable places in the country. Among 758 New York towns, just 3 have a higher share of households owning their home than East Williston.
Where East Williston beats most towns.
| Widest gap | East Williston | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 6.1% | 17.2% |
Where East Williston’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New York), ordered by how far East Williston is from typical.
Its grades run from A+ for jobs and income (better than 99% of comparable towns) to D− for cost of living (better than 1%), so the A+ overall blends very different results.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 493 in 1930, 2,645 in 2020. The archive holds 12 old photos and papers going back to 1927 and 6 maps from 1897 on.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around East Williston. Close and well known come first.
Big draw18 mi GardenCentral Park40.0M visitors a year
Big draw19 mi Stadium & arenaMadison Square Garden
Big draw18 mi TheatreStudio 54
Big draw17 mi MuseumMetropolitan Museum of Art2.0M visitors a year
Big draw23 mi Stadium & arenaMetLife Stadium
Big draw16 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
Who provides power, water and the rest in East Williston, 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.
Ordered by what stands out in East Williston.
East Williston has less food insecurity than most of New York and sends most of its workers to New York City and beyond, but it has homes that cost more against local pay than most of New York.
At 14.6 years of the New York metro’s $99K median household income, the typical home (about $1.44M) costs more against local pay than in 97% of New York towns; that ratio is one input to its D− for cost of living.
Typical home values rose 8.6% in the year to September 2026.
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Its widest gap with New York is food insecurity: 6.1% of its 1,958 adults worry about having enough food, against 17.2% statewide. Against the 786 U.S. towns with household incomes like East Williston’s, it is healthier than 75%, a smaller edge than it has nationally: part of it comes with its incomes.
14% of East Williston adults have been diagnosed with depression. East Williston beats the New York average on 24 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 25% of East Williston adults have obesity.
| East Williston | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 21% | 23% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 16% | 17% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 6.7% | 13% | 14% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 9.7% | 14% | 14% |
| What stands out | East Williston | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 6.1% | 17.2% |
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 4.6% | 12.8% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10% | 7.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 88% of U.S. communities. One flood insurance claim has been paid in East Williston since 2010.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
East Williston has 306 jobs for its 1,232 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
2.3% of residents live below the poverty line in East Williston. Jobs based in East Williston fell to 306 in 2023, 76 fewer than in 2013. The average trip to work in East Williston is 38 minutes.
| East Williston | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 38 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $215,000 | $82,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 2.3% | 9.5% | 9.6% |
| Work from home | 17% | 12% | 11% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
East Williston has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 85°, January nights drop to 26° and about 19 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
0.0 miles of trail in 3 parks and preserves.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Roslyn Road Park | — | 8 |
| 2. Devlin Park | — | 2 |
| 3. East Williston Village Green | — | 1 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
32 within 15 miles of the center of East Williston
About 7 of every 100 East Williston residents are enrolled in college, about the same as New York.
Village in New York, United States
East Williston is an incorporated village in the Town of North Hempstead in Nassau County, on Long Island, in New York, United States. The population was 2,645 at the time of the 2020 census.
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3 towns share a border with East Williston.
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Williston | #20 | A+ | D− | — | A+ | A+ |
| Mineola | #82 | A | D− | — | A− | A |
| Roslyn Heights | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Williston Park | #52 | A | D− | — | A | A |
East Williston, Mineola and Williston Park report no FBI crime data of their own. Roslyn Heights isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare East Williston with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Yes, by almost any measure. East Williston grades A+ overall, better than 98% of U.S. towns and #20 of 745 in New York. It grades A+ for health and A+ for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a D−.
Yes. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades D−.
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