Copiague, New York.
Typical home $615,071 (+0.5% in a year). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,574 (+95%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,944 +0%
- $612,127$615,071 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $91,434 +17%
- $523,637$615,071 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.
- Copiague$3,228
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Copiague, NY rose 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Copiague, Suffolk County, New York
Copiague, in Suffolk County, had 23,429 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $127,369 a year and half less, against $130,686 across Suffolk County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Copiague is a community on the South Shore of Long Island, in Suffolk County. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run a little below the county's. Poverty is uncommon, and the population skews a bit younger than much of the country. Winters are cold, with January the chilliest month, and summers are warm; a year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, professional and business services, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing many. Among the largest workplaces in Copiague are the Copiague Union Free School District, Target and Gabila Food Products. A typical commute is fairly long, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Jones Beach Island and Bethpage State Park, a protected area, are both a short drive away. A longer drive leads to the Brooklyn Museum and the Bronx Zoo, among the best-known places in the city.
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- 6,903households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 9%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 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 68°. About 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Farmingdale Airport weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Copiague
- Copiague Union Free School DistrictSchool district608FTE
- TargetDiscount department stores273
- Gabila Food ProductsKnishes made in commercial bakeries60
- Electrical and HVAC/R Training CenterCareer school49
- CopiagueMail and parcel delivery26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 359 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Copiague’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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.
Copiague home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Copiague$615,071
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Copiague 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.
- Copiague16.73%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Copiague39
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Copiague13
Zip codes with a Copiague address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Copiague — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.