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A town settled in 1868, now home to 15,549 people.
Seaford’s rent at the middle of the market is $2,489 a month, above both the New York town median ($1,101 a month) and the median of U.S. towns ($1,185 a month). Seaford’s density of trails is 1.2 miles per square mile, where New York’s towns sit at 0.4 and U.S. towns at 0.4. The biggest park or preserve is Cedar Creek Park, at 81 acres. We don’t grade Seaford yet; the figures below are still real.
Coastal flooding makes up 21% of the storm damage FEMA expects here.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA · OpenStreetMap
Census counts: 15,791 in 2000, 15,251 in 2020. The archive holds 6 old photos and papers going back to 1956 and 6 maps from 1901 on.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Seaford. Close and well known come first.
Big draw26 mi City parkCentral Park40.0M visitors a year
Big draw27 mi Stadium & arenaMadison Square Garden
Big draw27 mi TheatreStudio 54
Big draw26 mi MuseumMetropolitan Museum of Art2.0M visitors a year
Big draw32 mi Stadium & arenaMetLife Stadium
Big draw27 mi BeachConey IslandCentral 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 · Coney Island: OptimumPx, Public domain
Seaford 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.
Ordered by what stands out in Seaford.
Typical home values rose 6.3% in the year to September 2026. The share of households in Seaford who live in a home they own: 93%. In Seaford, 64% of sales closed above the list price.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Just 6% of Seaford’s working residents have a job in town. Since 2013, Seaford has added 303 jobs, to 3,165 in 2023. The town’s mean commuting time comes in at 38 minutes. For half of commuters, work is under 12 miles away.
| Seaford | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 38 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $173,000 | $82,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 3.6% | 9.5% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 5.7% | 10% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
In Seaford, the FEMA hazard score is 69 of 100. Since 1978, 1,978 flood insurance claims have been paid out here. FEMA puts 64% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 21% to coastal flooding.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
July afternoons reach 84°, January nights drop to 26° and about 26 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
3.2 miles of trail in 6 parks and preserves. Parks and preserves in Seaford: 6, covering 203 acres.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Tackapausha Preserve | 2.4 mi | 61 |
| 2. Cedar Creek Park | — | 81 |
| 3. Seamans Neck Park | — | 55 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
28% of Seaford adults have obesity. On the CDC’s 32 measures, Seaford is ahead of New York on 19 and behind on 1.
| Seaford | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 21% | 23% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 8.9% | 13% | 14% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 33% | 35% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 14% | 14% |
| What stands out | Seaford | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 5.7% | 12.8% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 8.2% | 17.2% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.8% | 7.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
No age group stands out against New York: all are within 4 points. 46% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in Seaford. The town’s midpoint age stands at 40.3 years.
| Seaford | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 46% | 32% | 29% |
| Aged 65 or older | 17% | 20% | 18% |
| Median age | 40.3 years | 43 years | 40.5 years |
| Under 18 | 22% | 20% | 22% |
51% women, 49% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±6.1 points. Across New York, 51.2% of residents are women.
| Seaford | NY | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 10% | 11% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 11.9% | 9.5% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 7% | 8.9% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 14.8% | 14.2% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 11.6% | 13% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 11.1% | 12.2% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 16.3% | 13.3% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 9.4% | 10.3% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 7.9% | 7.6% | 7% |
| No diploma | 2.7% | 12% | 10.4% |
| High school | 22.9% | 24.3% | 26% |
| Some college | 17.5% | 14.6% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 10.8% | 8.8% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 26.1% | 22.4% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 19.9% | 17.9% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
17 within 15 miles of the center of Seaford
About 6 of every 100 Seaford residents are enrolled in college, about the same as New York.
Where Seaford’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
6 notable people were born in Seaford.
Hamlet and census-designated place in New York, United States
Seaford is a census-designated place in the town of Hempstead, Nassau County, on the South Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. The population was 15,251 at the 2020 census.
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5 towns share a border with Seaford.
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seaford | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Massapequa | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Hempstead | #118 | A | D− | — | A | A |
| Oyster Bay | — | — | D− | — | — | A+ |
| Wantagh | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| North Wantagh | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Hempstead and Oyster Bay report no FBI crime data of their own. Seaford, Massapequa, Oyster Bay, Wantagh and North Wantagh aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Seaford with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
We don’t grade Seaford yet; the figures below are still real.
6 notable people were born here, including Sean Nolin and Adam Bergen.
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