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Smithtown is a city of 116,847, and it grades A overall, 76th of 745 graded towns in New York. It is healthier than 95% of U.S. towns and the median household earns $153K. The trade-off: the typical home is worth about $824K, 8.3 years of the New York metro’s $99K median household income. Smithtown’s median rent is $2,233 a month, against $1,098 a month in New York’s towns and $1,185 a month across U.S. towns. On hazard risk, just 42 of New York’s 1,216 towns do better. Its National Register listings include First Presbyterian Church and Box Hill Estate.
Where Smithtown beats most towns.
First Presbyterian Church is a National Historic Landmark, the National Register’s top tier.
Census counts: 1,022 in 1790, 116,296 in 2020. The archive holds 12 old photos and papers going back to 1900 and 6 maps from 1902 on.
27 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Explore the history →Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New York), ordered by how far Smithtown is from typical.
Its grades run from A+ for hazard risk (better than 98% of comparable towns) to D− for cost of living (better than 3%), so the A overall blends very different results.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Smithtown. Close and well known come first.
Big draw40 mi Stadium & arenaYankee Stadium
Big draw37 mi Stadium & arenaCiti Field
Big draw37 mi Stadium & arenaEtihad Park
Big draw40 mi MuseumThe Cloisters
37 mi GardenFlushing Meadows–Corona Park
35 mi LandmarkFerncliff CemeteryYankee Stadium: Matt Boulton, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Citi Field: Chris6d, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Etihad Park: Bananza76, CC0 · The Cloisters: Paweł Drozd on Wiki Drozdpl cropped by Beyond My Ken (talk) 17:05, 27 December 2, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Flushing Meadows–Corona Park: Flapane, Public domain · Ferncliff Cemetery: Anthony22 at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Smithtown, 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 Smithtown.
Smithtown 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.
101 miles of trail in 48 parks and preserves. Smithtown’s trail density is 0.9 miles per square mile. Sunken Meadow State Park, at 1,400 acres with 19.3 miles of trail, is the biggest park or preserve.
| Smithtown | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.9 miles per square mile | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 9.7% | 5.2% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Sunken Meadow State Park | 19.3 mi | 1,400 |
| 2. Blydenburgh County Park | 15.8 mi | 602 |
| 3. Caleb Smith State Park | 9.6 mi | 541 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Its A for schools comes with a D− for cost of living: the typical home is worth about $824K.
Its public schools are run by the Smithtown Central School District. Three of its 33 schools are below, each with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Great Hollow Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 750 | B |
| Commack High SchoolLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 1,728 | A+ |
| Kings Park High SchoolTop results in townGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 823 | A+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NY on state tests and graduation
Its widest gap with New York is food insecurity: 8.1% of its 19,049 adults worry about having enough food, against 17.2% statewide. Against the 2,567 U.S. towns with household incomes like Smithtown’s, it is healthier than 75%, a smaller edge than it has nationally: part of it comes with its incomes.
16% of adults have been diagnosed with depression in Smithtown. Smithtown beats the New York average on 19 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 28% of adults feel lonely in Smithtown.
| Smithtown | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 21% | 23% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 32% | 33% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 8.1% | 13% | 14% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 16% | 17% |
| What stands out | Smithtown | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 8.1% | 17.2% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 7.6% | 14.5% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10.2% | 7.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
At 8.3 years of the New York metro’s $99K median household income, the typical home (about $824K) costs more against local pay than in 90% of New York towns; that ratio is one input to its D− for cost of living.
89% of Smithtown households own their home. Typical home values rose 6.8% in the year to September 2026.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
225 flood insurance claims have been filed here, and 21 properties have flooded more than once.
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 95% of U.S. communities. Since 1978, 225 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Smithtown.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Smithtown has chilly, snowy winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 83°, January nights drop to 25° and about 32 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Smithtown has about as many jobs (63,452) as working residents, but only 9,057 people both live and work here.
Most working residents leave Smithtown for work: only 16% work in town. The average trip to work in Smithtown is 32 minutes. Jobs based in Smithtown grew to 63,452 in 2023, 9,228 more than in 2013.
| Smithtown | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $153,000 | $82,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 32 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 4.2% | 9.5% | 9.6% |
| Work from home | 17% | 12% | 11% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
3 within 15 miles of the center of Smithtown
About 7 of every 100 Smithtown residents are enrolled in college, about the same as New York.
9.7% of the town is conserved land, across 48 parks and preserves.
27 places in Smithtown on the National Register of Historic Places.
36 notable people were born in Smithtown.
Town in New York, United States
Smithtown is a town in Suffolk County, New York, on the Northshore of Long Island. It is part of the New York metropolitan area. The population was 116,296 at the 2020 Census. The census-designated place (CDP) of Smithtown lies within the town's borders.
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10 towns share a border with Smithtown.
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smithtown | #76 | A | D− | — | A | A |
| Huntington | #61 | A | D− | — | A | A+ |
| Brookhaven | #295 | B | D− | — | B | A− |
| Islip | #178 | A− | D− | — | A− | A− |
| Stony Brook | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Commack | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Head of the Harbor | — | — | D− | — | A | A+ |
| Lake Ronkonkoma | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Head of the Harbor has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Smithtown, Huntington, Brookhaven, Islip and Head of the Harbor report no FBI crime data of their own. Stony Brook, Commack and Lake Ronkonkoma aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Smithtown with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
By most measures, yes. Smithtown grades A overall, better than 92% of U.S. towns and #76 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−.
36 notable people were born here, including Melissa Joan Hart and William Weld.
