Lawrence, New York.
Typical home $2,269,811 (+12.7% in a year). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$7,743 (+186%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $256,044 +13%
- $2,013,767$2,269,811 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $889,126 +64%
- $1,380,685$2,269,811 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.
- Lawrence$11,914
- 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 Lawrence, NY rose 12.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lawrence, Nassau County, New York
Lawrence is a village of 6,809 people in Nassau County. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% 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 residents work in schools and health care, then finance and property.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lawrence is a small village in Nassau County where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, a much higher share than across most of the country. Homes here are worth far more than a typical American home, and few residents live below the poverty line. Adults are unusually likely to hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold with a fair amount of snow, while summers are warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in banks, insurance and property, and in professional and business services, with some in wholesale. Across Nassau County, the largest workplaces include Long Island Jewish Medical Center, North Shore University Hospital and South Nassau Communities Hospital. The typical commute is long, and only a small number of people work from home. Unemployment in the county is unchanged from a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs.
Things to do. New York City's best-known sights are a longer drive away, among them the Statue of Liberty, a tourist attraction, and Central Park, a garden. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of several museums within that same longer drive. Coney Island, a beach, is also a longer drive away.
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- 2,072households
- 77%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 39 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents 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 40° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 69°. About 26 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the New York Jfk International Airport weather station, 4 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; Lawrence 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
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively 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 Lawrence’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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.
Lawrence home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lawrence$2,269,811
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 8 Lawrence listings — 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.
- Lawrence13.19%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lawrence26
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lawrence4
Zip codes with a Lawrence address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lawrence — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.