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For most people who can afford it, yes. Glen Cove grades B overall, 348th among New York's 745 graded towns. It reports less crime per resident than 77% of U.S. towns. The catch is cost: the typical home is worth about $827K, 8.3 years of the New York metro’s $99K median household income. Glen Cove’s median rent is $2,398 a month, above both the New York town median ($1,098 a month) and the median of U.S. towns ($1,185 a month). Glen Cove is more walkable than 95% of U.S. towns. Glen Cove is home to Webb Institute.
Where Glen Cove beats most towns.
Census counts: 8,664 in 1920, 28,365 in 2020. The archive holds 16 old photos and papers going back to 1855 and 6 maps from 1897 on.
6 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New York), ordered by how far Glen Cove is from typical.
Its grades run from A+ for walkability (better than 95% of comparable towns) to D− for cost of living (better than 1%), so the B overall blends very different results.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Glen Cove. Close and well known come first.
Big draw18 mi GardenCentral Park40.0M visitors a year
Big draw20 mi Stadium & arenaMadison Square Garden
Big draw18 mi MuseumMetropolitan Museum of Art2.0M visitors a year
Big draw20 mi TheatreStudio 54
Big draw15 mi Stadium & arenaYankee Stadium
Big draw23 mi Stadium & arenaMetLife 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 · Metropolitan Museum of Art: Hugo Schneider, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Studio 54: Americasroof (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Yankee Stadium: Matt Boulton, CC BY-SA 2.0 · MetLife Stadium: babyknight, CC BY 2.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Glen Cove, 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 Glen Cove.
Glen Cove is safe by national standards but not by New York’s; it also has homes that cost more against local pay than most of New York and scores below Oyster Bay and its other neighbors on health.
At 8.3 years of the New York metro’s $99K median household income, the typical home (about $827K) costs more against local pay than in 90% of New York towns; that ratio is one input to its D− for cost of living. Its typical home is the least expensive on its borders; Oyster Bay is next at $1.05M.
51% of households own their home in Glen Cove. Typical home values rose 7.3% in the year to September 2026.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Each of its 3 graded neighbors has a higher School Grade than its C+, Sea Cliff highest at A+.
Its public schools are run by the Glen Cove City School District. Two of its 9 schools are below, each with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert M Finley Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 691 | C |
| Glen Cove High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 1,060 | A |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NY on state tests and graduation
11 miles of trail in 16 parks and preserves. Welwyn Preserve, at 165 acres with 5.2 miles of trail, is the biggest park or preserve.
| Glen Cove | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.6 miles per square mile | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 3.8% | 5.2% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Welwyn Preserve | 5.2 mi | 165 |
| 2. Garvies Point Preserve | 2.6 mi | 67 |
| 3. Morgan Memorial Park | 1.8 mi | 21 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
129 flood insurance claims have been filed here, and 24 properties have flooded more than once.
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 90% of U.S. communities. Since 1978, 129 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Glen Cove.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
At 9.4 crimes per 1,000 residents a year, it reports less crime than 62% of New York’s graded towns. Violent crime is rare: 25 reported in 2025, 0.9 per 1,000 residents.
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
Most working residents leave Glen Cove for work: only 13% work in town. The average trip to work in Glen Cove is 29 minutes. The top destinations are New York (31%), North Hempstead (14%) and Oyster Bay (14%).
| Glen Cove | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 29 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 14% | 9.5% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $92,000 | $82,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 13% | 10% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
All 4 graded neighbors score healthier than its B+, from Oyster Bay (A+) to Sea Cliff (A+).
Glen Cove beats the New York average on 2 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 3. 14% of Glen Cove adults have been diagnosed with depression.
| Glen Cove | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 21% | 23% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 42% | 37% | 36% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 16% | 17% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 17% | 16% |
| What stands out | Glen Cove | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults with depression | 14.3% | 17.5% |
| More adults treating high blood pressure | 80.5% | 77.2% |
| More uninsured adults | 10.2% | 7.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Glen Cove 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
People 65 and older are 23% of residents (18% statewide). 42% of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or more, vs 40% across New York.
| Glen Cove | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 18 | 17% | 20% | 22% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 42% | 32% | 29% |
| Aged 65 or older | 23% | 20% | 18% |
| Median age | 44 years | 42.9 years | 40.5 years |
52% women, 48% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±1.8 points. Across New York, 51.2% of residents are women.
| Glen Cove | NY | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 9.3% | 11% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 7.4% | 9.5% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 7.8% | 8.9% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 14.7% | 14.2% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 12.4% | 13% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 12.1% | 12.2% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 13.5% | 13.3% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 12.6% | 10.3% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 10.2% | 7.6% | 7% |
| No diploma | 12.4% | 12% | 10.4% |
| High school | 25.5% | 24.3% | 26% |
| Some college | 14.4% | 14.6% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 5.4% | 8.8% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 25.6% | 22.4% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 16.7% | 17.9% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
38 within 15 miles of the center of Glen Cove
About 7 of every 100 Glen Cove residents are enrolled in college, about the same as New York.
6 places in Glen Cove on the National Register of Historic Places.
49 notable people were born in Glen Cove.
City in New York, United States
Glen Cove is a city located in Nassau County, on the North Shore of Long Island, New York. The city's population was 28,365 at the time of the 2020 census – its highest ever decennial count. Of Nassau County's five municipalities, Glen Cove is one of two that are cities, rather than towns – the other being Long Beach. Glen Cove was considered part of the affluent, early 20th-century Gold Coast of Long Island, as the properties located along the area's waterfront were initially developed as large country estates by wealthy entrepreneurs and businessmen (such as J.P. Morgan, Phipps, Pratt, and Prybil). Historically, with the onset of the Industrial Revolution, Glen Cove blossomed in the areas…
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7 towns share a border with Glen Cove.
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glen Cove | #348 | B | D− | A− | C+ | B+ |
| Oyster Bay | — | — | D− | — | — | A+ |
| Sea Cliff | #50 | A+ | D− | — | A+ | A+ |
| Glen Head | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lattingtown | — | — | D− | — | A | A+ |
| Matinecock | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Locust Valley | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| North Hempstead | #44 | A+ | D− | — | A | A+ |
Lattingtown has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Oyster Bay, Sea Cliff, Lattingtown and North Hempstead report no FBI crime data of their own. Oyster Bay, Glen Head, Matinecock and Locust Valley aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Glen Cove with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
For most people who can afford it, yes. Glen Cove grades B overall, better than 56% of U.S. towns and #348 of 745 in New York. It grades B+ for health, A− for safety and C+ 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−.
49 notable people were born here, including Thomas Pynchon and Lee Ranaldo.
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