Blue Point, New York.
Typical home $714,329 (+6.2% in a year). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,988 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $41,887 +6%
- $672,442$714,329 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $145,426 +26%
- $568,903$714,329 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.
- Blue Point$3,749
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Blue Point, NY rose 6.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Blue Point, Suffolk County, New York
Blue Point, in Suffolk County, had 5,156 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $154,625 a year and half less, against $130,686 across Suffolk County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Suffolk County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Suffolk County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Blue Point is a small community on the south shore of Long Island, in Suffolk County. Residents are older than in many places, and household incomes run well above the county's. Nearly everyone owns their home, and a large share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, peaking in August, with a good deal of rain and melted snow over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, professional and business services, shops and the building trades. Commutes are long, though more people work from home than one might expect. Across Suffolk County, the largest workplaces include Stony Brook University Hospital, Stony Brook University and South Shore University Hospital.
Things to do. Fire Island National Seashore, a protected stretch of barrier island coast, is a short drive away, as is Heckscher State Park. The Long Island Maritime Museum is also a short drive off, and the Patchogue Theatre sits in or beside town.
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- 2,082households
- 57%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 40 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What people in Suffolk County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Suffolk County had 689,858 jobs in 2025, 1.5% 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 August, with highs near 80° and lows near 69°. About 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Molloy Cercom weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Suffolk County
- Stony Brook University HospitalGeneral hospital8,738FTE
- Stony Brook UniversityUniversity or college5,585
- Canon USACopier rental or leasing4,982
- South Shore University HospitalGeneral hospital3,739FTE
- Good Samaritan HospitalGeneral hospital3,305FTE
- New York Cancer & Blood SpecialistsOncologists' offices2,917
- Huntington HospitalGeneral hospital2,760FTE
- Internal Revenue ServiceFederal government · Department of the Treasury2,511
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 974 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 152,960 people in all across the county; Blue Point has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Coastal floodingRelatively 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 Blue Point’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 Suffolk County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Blue Point home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Blue Point$714,329
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Blue Point9
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Blue Point address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Blue Point — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.