Melville, New York.
Typical home $955,768 (+1.9% in a year), asking rent $4,000 . New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,349 (+88%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,977 +2%
- $937,791$955,768 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $137,147 +17%
- $818,621$955,768 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.
- Melville$5,017
- 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 Melville, NY rose 1.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Melville, Suffolk County, New York
Melville, in Suffolk County, had 19,284 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $159,922 a year and half less, against $130,686 across Suffolk County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Melville is a community in Suffolk County where residents are older than in many places, and where most homes are lived in by their owners rather than rented. Household incomes run well above the county's, and few people live below the poverty line. A large share of adults hold a four-year degree, and typical home values and rents are high. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest; rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in banks, insurance and property, and in shops. Some of the biggest workplaces in Melville itself include Northwell, a general medical and surgical hospital, and Amazon's warehousing and storage operation. The typical commute is fairly long, and a noticeable share of residents work from home.
Things to do. Most well-known outings are a longer drive away, in New York City. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the best known, a large art museum, and Central Park is a famous garden and green space. The Museum of Modern Art is another museum worth the trip for those who enjoy art.
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- 7,255households
- 62%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 33 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 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, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Melville
- MID IslandMail and parcel delivery1,218
- Northwell1,205
- CHS - Old Country RoadGeneral medical and surgical hospitals783
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage721
- NGUSA Service CompanyNatural gas distribution575
- CSC ServiceworksCoin-operated laundries and cleaning413
- Estee Lauder - Research ParkMedical research and development laboratories or services374
- MediSys ManagementHospitals, general medical and surgical373
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,062 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
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively 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 Melville’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.
Melville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Melville$955,768
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Melville 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.
- Melville21.10%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Melville60
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Melville18
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Melville$935,608
- United States$370,717
Zip codes with a Melville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Melville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.