Oceanside, New York.
Typical home $794,456 (+5.9% in a year), asking rent $3,475 . New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,190 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $44,207 +6%
- $750,249$794,456 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $181,403 +30%
- $613,053$794,456 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.
- Oceanside$4,170
- 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 Oceanside, NY rose 5.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Oceanside, Nassau County, New York
Oceanside, in Nassau County, had 32,637 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $149,560 a year and half less, against $146,202 across Nassau County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Oceanside is a community on the south shore of Nassau County, Long Island, where most homes are lived in by their owners and poverty is uncommon. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and residents are older on average than in many American towns. A large share of adults hold a four-year degree, and typical home values and rents are high.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, banks and insurance, and shops. The Oceanside Union Free School District is among the biggest workplaces in town, alongside Super Stop & Shop and Trader Joe's. Commutes are long, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. The wider New York City area is a longer drive away, and it holds some of the best-known places to visit: the Statue of Liberty, a tourist attraction, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a museum. Central Park, a garden, is also on the list of nearby places, and Coney Island offers a beach. Winters are cold with a fair amount of snow, and summers are warm.
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- 10,970households
- 49%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
- 16%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 39° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 67°. About 26 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Oceanside weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Oceanside
- Oceanside Union Free School DistrictSchool district1,087FTE
- BrightviewLandscaping services198
- Super Stop & ShopGrocery stores151
- Trader Joe's 0552 OceansideGrocery store113
- Kohl's111
- AmazonSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores109
- Stop & ShopGrocery stores102
- Wild by NatureSupermarkets60
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 887 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Oceanside’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 Nassau County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Oceanside home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Oceanside$794,456
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Oceanside listings, and the typical home goes pending in 38 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Oceanside19.42%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Oceanside38
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Oceanside100
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Oceanside29
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Oceanside$740,552
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Oceanside101.47%
Zip codes with a Oceanside address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Oceanside — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.