Baldwin, New York.
Typical home $729,240 (+5.4% in a year). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,041 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $37,200 +5%
- $692,040$729,240 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $168,025 +30%
- $561,215$729,240 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.
- Baldwin$3,828
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Baldwin, NY rose 5.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Baldwin, Nassau County, New York
Baldwin, in Nassau County, had 33,919 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $145,472 a year and half less, against $146,202 across Nassau County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 87% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 13% 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 shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Baldwin is a community in Nassau County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes sit close to the county's own. The population is middle-aged on the whole, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with highs that stay near freezing in January and a fair amount of snow, while July brings warm days and the year as a whole is quite wet.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, professional and business services, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Within Baldwin itself, the largest workplaces include the Baldwin Union Free School District, the South Shore Association for Independent Living and Stop & Shop. Commutes are long, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Most of the better-known sights are a longer drive away. The Statue of Liberty is a well-known tourist attraction, and Central Park offers gardens and open ground. For museums, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the best known, and Coney Island is a beach that is also a longer drive away.
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- 10,870households
- 44%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 40 mintypical commute
- 11%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 39° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 67°. About 26 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Oceanside weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Baldwin
- Baldwin Union Free School DistrictSchool district838FTE
- Meadow Elementary SchoolSchools, elementary156
- South Shore Association for Independent LivingMental health facilities, residential137
- Stop & ShopGrocery stores128
- Plaza Elementary SchoolSchools, elementary91
- Steele Elementary SchoolSchools, elementary53
- Lenox Elementary SchoolSchools, elementary46
- BaldwinMail and parcel delivery44
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 927 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of BaldwinRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Baldwin’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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.
Baldwin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Baldwin$729,240
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Baldwin 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.
- Baldwin20.45%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Baldwin77
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Baldwin25
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Baldwin$731,259
- United States$371,553
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Baldwin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Baldwin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.