Brookhaven, New York.
Typical home $715,561 (+6.7% in a year). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$297 (+9%) since Nov 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $44,897 +7%
- $670,664$715,561 since Sep 2025
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.
- Brookhaven$3,756
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Brookhaven, NY rose 6.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York
Brookhaven, in Suffolk County, had 3,330 people in the 2020 census. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brookhaven is a small community on Long Island's south side, where almost every home is lived in by its owner. Home values run high, and many residents hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Precipitation is fairly generous through the year, falling as rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, manufacturing and other services also employing many. Across Suffolk County, the biggest workplaces include Stony Brook University Hospital and Stony Brook University. Commutes are on the long side, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, lies in or beside town, as does Gateway Playhouse, a theatre. Fire Island National Seashore, another protected area, is a short drive away. Heckscher State Park is a longer drive.
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- 886households
- 43%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents 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 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 66°. About 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Shirley Brookhaven Airport 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; Brookhaven has two 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 Brookhaven’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.
Brookhaven home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brookhaven$715,561
- 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.
- Brookhaven16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Brookhaven5
Zip codes with a Brookhaven address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brookhaven — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.