Oakdale, New York.
Typical home $727,321 (+8.1% in a year). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,090 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $54,764 +8%
- $672,556$727,321 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $180,674 +33%
- $546,647$727,321 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.
- Oakdale$3,818
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Oakdale, NY rose 8.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Oakdale, Suffolk County, New York
Oakdale, in Suffolk County, had 7,430 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $118,958 a year and half less, against $130,686 across Suffolk County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% 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 restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Oakdale is a small community on the south shore of Long Island, in Suffolk County, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run somewhat below the county's, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January highs and lows around freezing and a little below, summers are 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 others in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, the building trades and shops. Among the larger workplaces in Oakdale are J.R. Fuel Oil, Elite Parking Area Maintenance and Lidl US. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and some people work from home.
Things to do. Heckscher State Park and the Connetquot River State Park Preserve are protected areas in or beside town, and Bayard Cutting Arboretum State Park, a botanical garden, is close by as well. The Long Island Maritime Museum is also in or beside town. Fire Island National Seashore is a short drive away.
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- 2,761households
- 47%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 10%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, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Oakdale
- J.R. Fuel OilAir-conditioner, window, repair and maintenance services71
- Elite Parking Area MaintenanceConcrete paving, residential and commercial driveway and parking area25
- Lidl USRetail20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 116 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
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Oakdale’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.
Oakdale home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Oakdale$727,321
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Oakdale 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.
- Oakdale23.20%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Oakdale31
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Oakdale11
Zip codes with a Oakdale address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Oakdale — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.