Greenvale, New York.
Typical home $1,032,007 (+6.2% in a year). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,831 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $60,225 +6%
- $971,782$1,032,007 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $248,513 +32%
- $783,494$1,032,007 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.
- Greenvale$5,417
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Greenvale, NY rose 6.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Greenvale, Nassau County, New York
Greenvale, in Nassau County, had 1,069 people in the 2020 census. 95% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 5% are rented. Unemployment in Nassau County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Nassau 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Greenvale is a very small community in Nassau County, and nearly everyone who lives there owns their home. Poverty is rare here, and homes are valued well above what is typical for much of the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn properly warm by July. Snow is modest through the winter, and rain and melted snow fall steadily across 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 Nassau County, the largest workplaces are hospitals, among them Long Island Jewish Medical Center, North Shore University Hospital and Nassau University Medical Center. The commute is a long one, and only a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. The best-known places nearby are in New York City, each a longer drive away. The Statue of Liberty is a tourist attraction, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of several large museums within reach, and Central Park offers gardens and open ground for a day out.
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- 2%below the poverty line
- 40 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Nassau County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Nassau County had 636,274 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 68°. About 18 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mineola weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Nassau County
- Long Island Jewish Medical CenterGeneral hospital15,304FTE
- North Shore University HospitalGeneral hospital14,219FTE
- FreedomCareHome care of elderly, non-medical12,475
- Northwell7,689
- Nassau University Medical CenterGeneral hospital3,343FTE
- South Nassau Communities HospitalGeneral hospital3,279FTE
- St. Francis HospitalGeneral hospital3,061FTE
- Hofstra UniversityUniversity or college2,547
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 647 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 152,966 people in all across the county; Greenvale has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of GreenvaleRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Greenvale’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 Nassau County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Greenvale home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Greenvale$1,032,007
- 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.
Zip codes with a Greenvale address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Greenvale — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.