Oak BeachNY
69 people live in this town, settled in 1895.
Is Oak Beach a good place to live?
100% of households are owner-occupiers in Oak Beach, against 75% in New York’s towns and 73% across U.S. towns. 31% of the land in Oak Beach is conserved, above both the New York town median (5.2%) and the median of U.S. towns (4.3%). The biggest park or preserve is Captree State Park, at 68 acres. Oak Beach has fewer than 1,000 residents, too few for fair grades; the figures below are still real.
Oak Beach lives by the ocean
Coastal flooding makes up 59% of the storm damage FEMA expects here.
- Gilgo State Park
- Oak Beach Park Directions ↗
- Captree State Park Directions ↗
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA · OpenStreetMap
Central Park and 440 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Oak Beach. Close and well known come first.
Big draw37 mi City parkCentral Park40.0M visitors a year
Big draw38 mi Stadium & arenaMadison Square Garden
Big draw37 mi TheatreStudio 54
Big draw37 mi MuseumMetropolitan Museum of Art2.0M visitors a year
Big draw37 mi BeachConey Island
Big draw36 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 · Coney Island: OptimumPx, Public domain · Yankee Stadium: Matt Boulton, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Moving to Oak Beach: who provides what
Oak Beach 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 Oak Beach.
Conserved land covers nearly a third of Oak Beach
Count the trails in 3 parks and preserves and they come to 1.1 miles. For Oak Beach, the trail density is 0.3 miles per square mile.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Gilgo State Park | 0.3 mi | 27 |
| 2. Captree State Park | — | 68 |
| 3. Oak Beach Park | 0.1 mi | 5 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Most of Oak Beach’s workers head elsewhere: there are 0.0 jobs for each of them
For half of commuters, work is under 15 miles away. The top destinations are New York (25%), Babylon (19%) and Islip (18%).
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Top of a high hazard risk in Oak Beach: coastal flooding
Storm and flood damage is expected to run higher than in 77% of U.S. communities. Expected losses in Oak Beach break down as 59% from coastal flooding and 29% from inland flooding.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Oak Beach stands out in New York and nationally, with fewer of its adults who feel lonely
For adults in Oak Beach, the share who binge drink is 14%. Only one of the 756 New York towns we compare has a higher share of adults who had a checkup this year than Oak Beach. This New York town beats the New York average on 17 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 5.
| Oak Beach | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 21% | 23% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 32% | 33% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 86% | 81% | 79% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 16% | 17% |
| What stands out | Oak Beach | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 4% | 8.2% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 8.5% | 17.2% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 12.2% | 7.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Oak Beach
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Oak Beach
About 0 of every 100 Oak Beach residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across New York.
69 people, and everyone knows the way
In a town this size, neighbors are the best guide. Ask them anything.
About Oak Beach
Census-designated place on Jones Beach Island
Oak Beach is a small community and census-designated place located near the eastern end of Jones Beach Island, a barrier island between the Atlantic Ocean and the Great South Bay of Long Island. The community is part of the village of Babylon in Suffolk County, New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, Oak Beach had a population of 268. The eastern part, the Oak Island Beach Association, is gated, whereas the western part is not. The Oak Beach CDP was first listed prior to the 2020 census. Prior to that the community was part of the Oak Beach–Captree census-designated place.
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- Area
- 3.3 sq mi
- Elevation
- -7 ft
Questions about Oak Beach
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Oak Beach, NY a good place to live?
Oak Beach has fewer than 1,000 residents, too few for fair grades; the figures below are still real.