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A town of 2,098.
The best of Old Brookville’s subject grades are an A+ for incomes, health, and safety; the weakest is a D− for cost of living. 77% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in Old Brookville, where New York’s towns sit at 32% and U.S. towns at 29%. Only 7 of New York’s 1,216 towns score higher on incomes. Old Brookville's schools rank ahead of 96% of New York towns. On history, just 41 of New York’s 1,216 towns do worse. The biggest park or preserve is Youngs Farm Preserve, at 60 acres. Old Brookville has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Where Old Brookville beats most towns.
| Widest gap | Old Brookville | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 6.3% | 17.2% |
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New York), ordered by how far Old Brookville is from typical.
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The archive holds 6 old photos and papers going back to 1834.
Explore the history →Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Old Brookville. 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 draw25 mi Stadium & arenaMetLife Stadium
Big draw17 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 · 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
Who provides power, water and the rest in Old Brookville, 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 Old Brookville.
14% of Old Brookville adults have been diagnosed with depression, below both New York’s towns (21%) and U.S. towns (23%). 25% of Old Brookville adults have obesity. Old Brookville beats the New York average on 23 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 2.
| Old Brookville | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 21% | 23% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 16% | 17% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 6.3% | 13% | 14% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 9.8% | 14% | 14% |
| What stands out | Old Brookville | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 6.3% | 17.2% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 3.2% | 7.9% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10.2% | 7.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Old Brookville’s property crime rate is 0.5 per 1,000 residents.
| Old Brookville | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0.5 per 1,000 residents | 7.5 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0 per 1,000 residents | 0.8 | 1.6 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 88% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Old Brookville 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.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
The median household income in Old Brookville is $250,000. Among 759 New York towns, just 4 have a lower share of residents below the poverty line than Old Brookville. The average trip to work in Old Brookville is 40 minutes.
| Old Brookville | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 40 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $250,000 | $82,000 | $80,000 |
| Work from home | 27% | 12% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 1.1% | 9.5% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
| Old Brookville | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.7 miles per square mile | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 4.2% | 5.2% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Youngs Farm Preserve | 0.2 mi | 60 |
| 2. Louis C. Clark Sanctuary | — | 8 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
28 within 15 miles of the center of Old Brookville
About 7 of every 100 Old Brookville residents are enrolled in college, about the same as New York.
Village in New York, United States
Old Brookville is a village located within the Town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, on the North Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, Old Brookville had a population of 2,020.
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7 towns share a border with Old Brookville.
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Old Brookville | — | — | D− | A+ | A+ | A+ |
| Glen Head | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Upper Brookville | — | — | D− | — | A | A+ |
| Greenvale | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Glenwood Landing | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Matinecock | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Roslyn Harbor | — | — | D− | — | A | A+ |
| Brookville | #1 | A+ | — | A | A+ | A+ |
Old Brookville, Upper Brookville and Roslyn Harbor have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Upper Brookville and Roslyn Harbor report no FBI crime data of their own. Glen Head, Greenvale, Glenwood Landing and Matinecock aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Old Brookville with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Yes. The typical home is worth about $2,000,000, 281% above the New York typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades D−.
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