Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Few places in the country grade higher. Huntington earns an A, ranked 61st of 745 in New York. CDC estimates put its residents' health ahead of 95% of the country, the median household earns $168K, and its schools rank ahead of 89% of New York towns. The exception is cost of living: homes are expensive, about $912K for a typical one and 9.2 times the New York metro’s $99K median household income. Huntington’s midpoint rent is $2,358 a month, where New York’s towns sit at $1,098 a month and U.S. towns at $1,185 a month. Its National Register listings include LITTLE JENNIE (Chesapeake Bay bugeye) and Lloyd Harbor Lighthouse. On hazard risk, just 54 of New York’s 1,216 towns do better.
Where Huntington beats most towns.
Its founding year, 1653, comes before those of 98% of the New York towns we grade with a known year. Its 100 National Register listings are more than in 99% of New York towns with a listing.
Census counts: 3,260 in 1790, 204,127 in 2020. The archive holds 43 old photos and papers going back to 1798 and 5 maps from 1901 on.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New York), ordered by how far Huntington is from typical.
Its grades run from A+ for hazard risk (better than 97% of comparable towns) to D− for cost of living (better than 4%), so the A overall blends very different results.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Huntington. Close and well known come first.
Big draw32 mi City parkCentral Park40.0M visitors a year
Big draw34 mi Stadium & arenaMadison Square Garden
Big draw33 mi TheatreStudio 54
Big draw32 mi MuseumMetropolitan Museum of Art2.0M visitors a year
Big draw37 mi Stadium & arenaMetLife Stadium
Big draw29 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 Huntington, 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 Huntington.
Huntington trades workers with New York City and other neighbors and has less food insecurity than most of New York, but it has homes that cost more against local pay than most of New York.
At 9.2 years of the New York metro’s $99K median household income, the typical home (about $912K) costs more against local pay than in 92% of New York towns; that ratio is one input to that grade.
Home values are up 3.3% over the year to September 2026. On the market in Huntington: a median 20 days to sell. 64% of the homes sold in Huntington went for more than their asking price.
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
That grade comes with a D− for cost of living: the typical home is worth about $912K.
Three of its 60 schools are shown below, with the reason for each. 6 public schools serve Huntington, with 4,045 students in all.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Commack Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 1,337 | B |
| Walt Whitman High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 1,939 | A+ |
| Half Hollow Hills High School WestTop results in townGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 1,028 | A+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NY on state tests and graduation
The biggest place to walk is Caumsett, 1,533 acres with 31.6 miles of trail. 158 miles of trail wind through 117 parks and preserves. The density of trails for Huntington comes to 1.2 miles per square mile.
| Huntington | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 1.2 miles per square mile | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 8.3% | 5.2% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Caumsett | 31.6 mi | 1,533 |
| 2. West Hills County Park | 20.9 mi | 916 |
| 3. Edgewood Oak Brush Plains Preserve | 9 mi | 301 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Its widest gap with New York is food insecurity: 8.9% of its 30,392 adults worry about having enough food, against 17.2% statewide. Against the 1,753 U.S. towns with household incomes like Huntington’s, it is healthier than 68%, a smaller edge than it has nationally: part of it comes with its incomes.
For adults in Huntington, the share who have diabetes is 9%. On the CDC’s 32 measures, Huntington is ahead of New York on 19 and behind on 1. Two figures for adults locally: 13% report frequent mental distress, 7.5% smoke cigarettes.
| Huntington | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 21% | 23% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 16% | 17% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 7.5% | 13% | 14% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 32% | 33% |
| What stands out | Huntington | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 8.9% | 17.2% |
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 7.1% | 12.8% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.8% | 7.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
411 flood insurance claims have been filed here, and 45 properties have flooded more than once.
Storm and flood damage is expected to run lower than in 95% of U.S. communities. Huntington has had 411 paid flood insurance claims since 1978. Of the losses FEMA expects locally, 59% come from inland flooding and 16% from hurricanes. Federal disaster aid has reached households in Huntington after 12 declared disasters, most recently in 2022.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The typical July afternoon high in Huntington is 84°F.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Huntington has about as many jobs (100,959) as working residents, but only 21,880 people both live and work here.
Half of commuters travel less than 14 miles. For Huntington, the mean commuting time is 35 minutes. The top destinations are New York (25%), Oyster Bay (10%) and Islip (7%). Among working residents here, 23% work locally.
| Huntington | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $168,000 | $82,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 35 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 23% | 10% | 8% |
| Work from home | 18% | 12% | 11% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
9 within 15 miles of the center of Huntington
About 6 of every 100 Huntington residents are enrolled in college, about the same as New York.
2 colleges in town.
100 places in Huntington on the National Register of Historic Places.
81 notable people were born in Huntington.
Town on Long Island, New York
Huntington is a town in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The town's population was 204,127 at the time of the 2020 census, making it the 11th most populous town in the state. Founded in 1653, the Town of Huntington is located on the North Shore of Long Island in northwestern Suffolk County, with the Long Island Sound to its north and Nassau County adjacent to the west. It is part of the New York metropolitan area.
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10 towns share a border with Huntington.
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huntington | #61 | A | D− | — | A | A+ |
| Oyster Bay | — | — | D− | — | — | A+ |
| Lloyd Harbor | #40 | A+ | D | — | A+ | A+ |
| Smithtown | #76 | A | D− | — | A | A |
| Dix Hills | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Babylon | — | — | D− | — | — | A− |
| Melville | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Deer Park | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Huntington, Oyster Bay, Lloyd Harbor, Smithtown and Babylon report no FBI crime data of their own. Oyster Bay, Dix Hills, Babylon, Melville and Deer Park aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Huntington with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Yes, by almost any measure. Huntington grades A overall, better than 94% of U.S. towns and #61 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−.
81 notable people were born here, including Ralph Macchio and LP.
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