Peconic, New York.
Typical home $1,232,005 (+1.7% in a year). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$3,936 (+156%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,366 +2%
- $1,211,639$1,232,005 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $320,892 +35%
- $911,113$1,232,005 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.
- Peconic$6,466
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Peconic, NY rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Peconic, Suffolk County, New York
Peconic, in Suffolk County, had 692 people in the 2020 census. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Peconic is a very small community on the North Fork of Long Island, home to far fewer people than most towns. Poverty is rare here, and homes carry high values, well above what is typical across much of the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops and in the building trades. Across Suffolk County, household incomes are high and unemployment is a little higher than a year ago, though the county has gained a few more jobs than the year before. Among the county's largest workplaces are Stony Brook University Hospital, Stony Brook University and South Shore University Hospital.
Things to do. Elizabeth Alexandra Morton National Wildlife Refuge and Conscience Point National Wildlife Refuge are protected areas a short drive away, both good for walking and watching wildlife. Fort Corchaug Archaeological Site, also a short drive away, is a place to learn about the area's earlier history. For a museum visit, the Parrish Art Museum is a longer drive away.
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- 316households
- 1%below the poverty line
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 38° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 65°. About 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mattituck weather station, 4 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; Peconic 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 floodingRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Peconic’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.
Peconic home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Peconic$1,232,005
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Peconic address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Peconic — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.