East Hampton, New York.
Typical home $2,150,015 (+3.3% in a year), asking rent $39,395 (+7.2%). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $712 (-6%) since Nov 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $68,263 +3%
- $2,081,752$2,150,015 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.
- East Hampton$11,285
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in East Hampton, NY rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in East Hampton, NY rose 7.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in East Hampton runs $22,711/mo less than renting one. The gap peaked at $25,257 in Jun 2026.
That is $16,685 a month against $39,395 rent: a $11,285 mortgage payment, plus $3,098 property tax and $2,302 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — East Hampton
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$16,685
- Renting$39,395
- Mortgage only$11,285
Property tax · $3,098/mo 1.73% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Suffolk County, NY
Insurance & upkeep · $2,302/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in East Hampton, Suffolk County, New York
East Hampton is a village of 1,517 people in Suffolk County. Half its households earn more than $106,250 a year and half less, against $130,686 across Suffolk County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% 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. East Hampton is a small village on the eastern end of Long Island, where the population is older than in most places, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the rest of Suffolk County's, though a smaller share of people live in poverty than you might expect, and typical home values and rents are very high. A large majority of adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold with a fair amount of snow, while summers are warm and mild rather than hot.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, banks, insurance and property, or the building trades. Stop & Shop and Riverhead Building Supply are among the larger workplaces in the village. The typical commute is short, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. The John Lyon Gardiner Mill Cottage, a museum, is in or beside town. A short drive away are the Parrish Art Museum and Napeague State Park, a protected area of shoreline and dunes. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Hither Hills State Park, another protected area.
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- 668households
- 62%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 16%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 38° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 64°. About 27 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bridgehampton weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in East Hampton
- Stop & ShopGrocery stores87
- Riverhead Building Supply76
- East HamptonMail and parcel delivery38
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 201 people in all. 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
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in East Hampton’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.
East Hampton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- East Hampton$2,150,015
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 East Hampton listings, and the typical home goes pending in 85 days — the market is heating up.
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.
- East Hampton13.69%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- East Hampton85
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- East Hampton232
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- East Hampton48
Zip codes with a East Hampton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls East Hampton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.