Albertson, New York.
Typical home $1,091,138 (+5.8% in a year). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,953 (+106%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $59,860 +6%
- $1,031,277$1,091,138 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $264,831 +32%
- $826,307$1,091,138 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Albertson$5,727
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Albertson, NY rose 5.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Albertson, Nassau County, New York
Albertson, in Nassau County, had 5,220 people in the 2020 census. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in Nassau County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Albertson is a small community in Nassau County, on Long Island, where the people tend to be older than in most places and nearly everyone who lives there owns their home. Homes are worth far more than in most of the country, and few residents live in poverty. A large share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Snow falls most winters, and rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, wholesale and government. Across Nassau County, the largest workplaces include Long Island Jewish Medical Center, North Shore University Hospital and Nassau University Medical Center. Unemployment across the county is unchanged from a year earlier, and the county has added a few more jobs than the year before. The typical commute is a long one, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Most of the places nearby are a longer drive away, in and around New York City. The Statue of Liberty is one of the best known tourist attractions in the country, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art is among the major museums. Central Park offers open green space for a day out.
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- 1,692households
- 58%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 38 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Nassau County had 636,274 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 68°. About 18 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mineola weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Nassau County
- Long Island Jewish Medical CenterGeneral hospital15,304FTE
- North Shore University HospitalGeneral hospital14,219FTE
- FreedomCareHome care of elderly, non-medical12,475
- Northwell7,689
- Nassau University Medical CenterGeneral hospital3,343FTE
- South Nassau Communities HospitalGeneral hospital3,279FTE
- St. Francis HospitalGeneral hospital3,061FTE
- Hofstra UniversityUniversity or college2,547
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 647 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 152,966 people in all across the county; Albertson has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Albertson’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Nassau County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Albertson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Albertson$1,091,138
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 12 Albertson listings — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Albertson8.39%
- United States26.36%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Albertson24
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Albertson8
Zip codes with a Albertson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Albertson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.