Great River, New York.
Typical home $1,101,229 (+26.4% in a year). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$3,594 (+164%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $229,952 +26%
- $871,277$1,101,229 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $422,502 +62%
- $678,727$1,101,229 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.
- Great River$5,780
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 7 years.
Typical home values in Great River, NY rose 26.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Great River, Suffolk County, New York
Great River, in Suffolk County, had 2,005 people in the 2020 census. 67% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 33% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Great River is a small community on the south shore of Long Island, home to an older population than most places, with a median age well above the national figure. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values run high. Incomes in town sit above the county's own median, and a four-year degree is common among adults. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with August the warmest and a good amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, banks, insurance and property, and shops. Across Suffolk County, some of the largest workplaces are Stony Brook University Hospital, Stony Brook University and South Shore University Hospital. The typical commute is a long one, and a share of residents work from home. Unemployment across the county is close to where it stood a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Much of the open space here is right in or beside town. Bayard Cutting Arboretum State Park is a botanical garden, and Connetquot River State Park Preserve protects land along the river of the same name. Heckscher State Park is also in or beside town, and Robert Moses State Park, on the barrier beach, is a short drive away.
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- 854households
- 56%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 12%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 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; Great River 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 Great River’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.
Great River home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Great River$1,101,229
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Great River address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Great River — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.