Moriches, New York.
Typical home $643,164 (+4.5% in a year), asking rent $2,475 (+6.9%). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,855 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $27,759 +5%
- $615,405$643,164 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $150,580 +31%
- $492,584$643,164 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.
- Moriches$3,376
- 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 Moriches, NY rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Moriches, NY rose 6.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Moriches runs $2,516/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.
That is $4,991 a month against $2,475 rent: a $3,376 mortgage payment, plus $927 property tax and $689 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Moriches
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$4,991
- Renting$2,475
- Mortgage only$3,376
Property tax · $927/mo 1.73% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Suffolk County, NY
Insurance & upkeep · $689/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 Moriches, Suffolk County, New York
Moriches, in Suffolk County, had 3,026 people in the 2020 census. 49% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 51% 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 people in Suffolk 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. Moriches is a small community on the south shore of Long Island, in Suffolk County. Homes are more often rented than owned, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than is typical. The typical home value and rent are both high, and winters are cold, with January highs near freezing and lows below it, while July is warm and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many also in professional and business services, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Suffolk County, the largest workplaces include Stony Brook University Hospital, Stony Brook University and South Shore University Hospital. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. The Forge River runs in or beside town, and a short drive brings you to Cupsogue Beach County Park and the Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge, both protected places by the water. For something livelier, Splish Splash, an amusement park, is also a short drive away. Fire Island National Seashore is a longer drive.
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- 1,213households
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 25%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Suffolk County 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 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 66°. About 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Shirley Brookhaven Airport weather station, 2 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; Moriches has none 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
FEMA rates every natural hazard here relatively low or very low.
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Moriches’ 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.
Moriches home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Moriches$643,164
- 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.
- Moriches16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Moriches address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Moriches — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.