Glen HeadNY
A town of 4,653, settled in 1874.
Is Glen Head a good place to live?
Glen Head’s median rent is $2,440 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 Glen Head yet; the figures below are still real.
97% of working residents leave Glen Head for work
Where Glen Head’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Central Park and 514 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Glen Head. Close and well known come first.
Big draw19 mi GardenCentral Park40.0M visitors a year
Big draw21 mi Stadium & arenaMadison Square Garden
Big draw19 mi MuseumMetropolitan Museum of Art2.0M visitors a year
Big draw20 mi TheatreStudio 54
Big draw24 mi Stadium & arenaMetLife Stadium
Big draw16 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 · Metropolitan Museum of Art: Hugo Schneider, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Studio 54: Americasroof (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · MetLife Stadium: babyknight, CC BY 2.0 · Yankee Stadium: Matt Boulton, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Moving to Glen Head: who provides what
Glen Head is unincorporated, so Nassau 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 Glen Head.
A typical Glen Head home is worth about $1.38M
The typical Glen Head home is worth about $1,381,000, up 8.4% in a year, more than twice the New York typical home. 90% of Glen Head households own their home, above both New York’s towns (75%) and U.S. towns (73%).
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Inland flooding leads a very low hazard risk in Glen Head
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 88% of U.S. communities. Since 1978, 13 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Glen Head.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Compared with most of New York and the rest of the country, fewer of Glen Head’s residents live below the poverty line
2.3% of Glen Head residents live below the poverty line. Since 2013, Glen Head has lost 230 jobs, to 1,023 in 2023. Glen Head’s median household income is $138,000.
| Glen Head | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $138,000 | $82,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 34 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 2.3% | 9.5% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 3.3% | 10% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Four seasons and pleasant summers in Glen Head
Glen Head has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 85°, January nights drop to 25° and about 19 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
How healthy Glen Head is
Glen Head beats the New York average on 20 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 2. 15% of adults have been diagnosed with depression in Glen Head.
| Glen Head | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 21% | 23% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 16% | 17% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 7.9% | 13% | 14% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 33% | 35% |
| What stands out | Glen Head | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 5.4% | 12.8% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 7.9% | 17.2% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10.3% | 7.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
1.7% of Glen Head is conserved land
0.2 miles of trail in 2 parks and preserves. The trail density in Glen Head is 0.1 miles per square mile.
| Glen Head | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 1.7% | 5.2% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Francis M. Gaynor Park G-5 | 0.2 mi | 9 |
| 2. Saunders Woods | — | 5 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Glen Head
Colleges nearby
33 within 15 miles of the center of Glen Head
About 9 of every 100 Glen Head residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across New York.
Glen Head’s neighbors
5 towns share a border with Glen Head.
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glen Head | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Old Brookville | — | — | D− | A+ | A+ | A+ |
| Glen Cove | #348 | B | D− | A− | C+ | B+ |
| Oyster Bay | — | — | D− | — | — | A+ |
| Sea Cliff | #50 | A+ | D− | — | A+ | A+ |
| Glenwood Landing | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Old Brookville has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Oyster Bay and Sea Cliff report no FBI crime data of their own. Glen Head, Oyster Bay and Glenwood Landing aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Glen Head with a neighbor →
Questions about Glen Head
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Is Glen Head, NY a good place to live?
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