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Upper Brookville’s best subject grades are an A+ for health and an A for incomes and schools; its weakest is a D− for cost of living. 72% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in Upper Brookville, against 32% in New York’s towns and 29% across U.S. towns. On health, just 45 of New York’s 1,213 towns do better. Upper Brookville is more walkable than 83% of U.S. towns. Upper Brookville’s trail density is 3.0 miles per square mile, above both the New York town median (0.4) and the median of U.S. towns (0.4). Only 48 of New York’s 1,187 towns score lower on civic life. The biggest place to walk is Planting Fields Arboretum, 384 acres with 8.4 miles of trail. Upper Brookville has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Where Upper Brookville beats most towns.
| Widest gap | Upper Brookville | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 6.4% | 17.2% |
Where Upper Brookville’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New York), ordered by how far Upper 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 Upper Brookville. Close and well known come first.
Big draw22 mi GardenCentral Park40.0M visitors a year
Big draw24 mi Stadium & arenaMadison Square Garden
Big draw23 mi TheatreStudio 54
Big draw22 mi MuseumMetropolitan Museum of Art2.0M visitors a year
Big draw27 mi Stadium & arenaMetLife Stadium
Big draw19 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 · 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
Who provides power, water and the rest in Upper 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 Upper Brookville.
The typical Upper Brookville home is worth about $2,793,000, up 11.2% in a year, 5 times the New York typical home. Upper Brookville’s median rent is $1,750 a month.
| Upper Brookville | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,750 a month | $1,101 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 89% | 75% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
14% of adults have been diagnosed with depression in Upper Brookville. Upper Brookville beats the New York average on 24 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 2. 25% of adults have obesity in Upper Brookville.
| Upper 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% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 25% | 33% | 35% |
| What stands out | Upper Brookville | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 6.4% | 17.2% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 3.1% | 7.9% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10.1% | 7.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 88% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The median household income in Upper Brookville is $250,000. Only 3 of the 759 New York towns we compare have a lower share of residents below the poverty line than Upper Brookville. The average trip to work in Upper Brookville is 39 minutes.
| Upper Brookville | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 39 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $250,000 | $82,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 0.9% | 9.5% | 9.6% |
| Work from home | 20% | 12% | 11% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Planting Fields Arboretum | 8.4 mi | 384 |
| 2. Hope Goddard Iselin Preserve | 1.3 mi | 44 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Upper Brookville has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 84°, January nights drop to 25° and about 19 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
21 within 15 miles of the center of Upper Brookville
About 4 of every 100 Upper Brookville residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across New York.
Village in New York, United States
Upper 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. It is the youngest village in Oyster Bay and the second-youngest in Nassau County. The population was 1,786 at the time of the 2020 census.
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6 towns share a border with Upper Brookville.
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Brookville | — | — | D− | — | A | A+ |
| Muttontown | #71 | A | D− | — | A+ | A+ |
| Brookville | #1 | A+ | — | A | A+ | A+ |
| Matinecock | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Old Brookville | — | — | D− | A+ | A+ | A+ |
| Mill Neck | — | — | D− | — | A | A+ |
| East Norwich | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Upper Brookville, Old Brookville and Mill Neck have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Upper Brookville, Muttontown and Mill Neck report no FBI crime data of their own. Matinecock and East Norwich aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Upper Brookville with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Yes. That is 28.2 years of the area's median household income ($99,155 across the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area). 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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