Ocean Beach, New York.
Typical home $1,460,312 (+22.7% in a year). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$4,972 (+185%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $269,862 +23%
- $1,190,450$1,460,312 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $553,460 +61%
- $906,852$1,460,312 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.
- Ocean Beach$7,665
- 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 Ocean Beach, NY rose 22.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ocean Beach, Suffolk County, New York
Ocean Beach is a village of 153 people in Suffolk County. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ocean Beach is a very small village on Fire Island, home to only a few people year-round. Homes here are priced far above what is typical for the country, and the village sits in a county where household incomes run high. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and temperatures that hover around and below freezing, while August is the warmest and brings comfortably warm days. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, or in the building trades. Across Suffolk County, jobs have grown modestly over the past year, and unemployment is about the same as a year earlier. Among the county's largest workplaces are Stony Brook University Hospital, Stony Brook University and South Shore University Hospital.
Things to do. Fire Island National Seashore, a protected stretch of shoreline, is a short drive away, as is Robert Moses State Park, another protected coastal area. Lighthouse Beach is also a short drive away for a day by the water. For something indoors, the Cherry Grove Community House and Theatre is a short drive from the village.
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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 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, 6 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; Ocean Beach 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
- Coastal floodingVery high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ocean Beach’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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.
Ocean Beach home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ocean Beach$1,460,312
- 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.
- Ocean Beach12
Zip codes with a Ocean Beach address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ocean Beach — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.