MelvilleNY
A regional job hub with 43,094 jobs. Settled in 1852, this town now has 19,714 residents.
Is Melville a good place to live?
Melville’s median rent is $3,501 a month, above both New York’s towns ($1,101 a month) and U.S. towns ($1,185 a month). Melville’s density of trails is 1.8 miles per square mile, against 0.4 in New York’s towns and 0.4 across U.S. towns. West Hills Nature Preserve, at 200 acres with 4 miles of trail, is the biggest park or preserve. We don’t grade Melville yet; the figures below are still real.
What makes Melville stand out
Where Melville beats most towns.
Every workday, about 42,369 people come to Melville for work
Where Melville’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Central Park and 490 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Melville. Close and well known come first.
Big draw29 mi City parkCentral Park40.0M visitors a year
Big draw31 mi Stadium & arenaMadison Square Garden
Big draw30 mi TheatreStudio 54
Big draw29 mi MuseumMetropolitan Museum of Art2.0M visitors a year
Big draw35 mi Stadium & arenaMetLife Stadium
Big draw27 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 · 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
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Moving to Melville: who provides what
Melville 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 Melville.
Melville’s typical home value is about $956K
Homes sold in Melville spent a median 27 days on the market. Values rose 1.9% in the 12 months to September 2026. Among households here, 88% own their home.
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
With 5.0 jobs for every working resident, Melville draws in 42,369 commuters
For most workers, Melville is a place to come home to: only 8% work in town. Its median household income stands at $160,000. The top destinations are New York (28%), Huntington (17%) and Oyster Bay (12%). In Melville, 4.5% of residents live below the poverty line.
| Melville | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $160,000 | $82,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 33 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 4.5% | 9.5% | 9.6% |
| Work from home | 16% | 12% | 11% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Melville has a very low natural-hazard risk, chiefly from inland flooding
The national flood insurance program has paid 19 claims in Melville since 1978. Expected damage from storms and floods is lower here than in 96% of U.S. communities. FEMA puts 60% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 19% to hurricanes.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
In Melville, expect four seasons and pleasant summers
July afternoons reach 84°, January nights drop to 24° and about 32 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
A smaller share of adults feel lonely in Melville than in most of New York or the rest of the country
Two figures for adults in Melville: 12% report frequent mental distress, 6.5% smoke cigarettes. Only 4 of the 756 New York towns we compare have a higher share of adults who had a checkup this year than Melville. For adults here, the share who say their health is fair or poor is 13%. On the CDC’s 32 measures, Melville is ahead of New York on 23 and behind on 3.
| Melville | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 21% | 23% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 16% | 17% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 6.5% | 13% | 14% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 32% | 33% |
| What stands out | Melville | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 7% | 17.2% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 6.3% | 14.5% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 11.9% | 7.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
9.1% of the land in Melville is protected from building
22 miles of trail in 14 parks and preserves.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Pineridge Park | 6.6 mi | 176 |
| 2. West Hills Nature Preserve | 4 mi | 200 |
| 3. Dr. Jeffrey Wenig Memorial Park | 1.6 mi | 108 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Melville
Colleges nearby
12 within 15 miles of the center of Melville
About 6 of every 100 Melville residents are enrolled in college, about the same as New York.
Melville’s neighbors
10 towns share a border with Melville.
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melville | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Dix Hills | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| West Hills | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Huntington | #61 | A | D− | — | A | A+ |
| South Huntington | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Babylon | — | — | D− | — | — | A− |
| East Farmingdale | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Oyster Bay | — | — | D− | — | — | A+ |
Huntington, Babylon and Oyster Bay report no FBI crime data of their own. Melville, Dix Hills, West Hills, South Huntington, Babylon, East Farmingdale and Oyster Bay aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Melville with a neighbor →
Questions about Melville
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Melville, NY a good place to live?
We don’t grade Melville yet; the figures below are still real.