Plainview, New York.
Typical home $991,572 (+6.4% in a year), asking rent $4,902 . New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,859 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $59,785 +6%
- $931,787$991,572 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $266,243 +37%
- $725,329$991,572 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.
- Plainview$5,205
- 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 Plainview, NY rose 6.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Plainview, Nassau County, New York
Plainview, in Nassau County, had 27,100 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $189,906 a year and half less, against $146,202 across Nassau County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Plainview is a residential community on Long Island, in Nassau County, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Households here earn more than the county's typical household, and fewer people live in poverty than in most places. Residents tend to be older than in many communities, and a large majority of adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, banks, insurance and property, and shops. Some of the largest workplaces in Plainview itself are Plainview Hospital, the Plainview-Old Bethpage Central School District and Quanta Services. The commute is a long one for many, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Winters are cold, with the coldest weather in January, and summers are warm, with July the warmest month. Rain and melted snow fall across the year in fair measure. For days out, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Central Park are the best known places nearby, a museum and a garden a longer drive away, and the Bronx Zoo is a zoo also a longer drive away.
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- 8,748households
- 68%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 35 mintypical commute
- 24%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 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 68°. About 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Farmingdale Airport weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Plainview
- Plainview HospitalGeneral hospital1,376FTE
- Plainview-old Bethpage Central School DistrictSchool district1,002FTE
- Quanta ServicesDistribution line, sewer and water, construction804
- 13 Towne BUS Llc-we Trans - PlainviewSchool bus services216
- Central Island HealthcareSkilled nursing facilities210
- Cox & Company3728209
- E W Howell CoAddition, alteration and renovation for-sale builders, commercial and institutional building203
- North Hills Office ServicesOffice cleaning services188
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,148 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Plainview’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 Nassau County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Plainview home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Plainview$991,572
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Plainview listings, and the typical home goes pending in 25 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.
- Plainview17.16%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Plainview25
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Plainview69
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Plainview26
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Plainview$950,543
- United States$371,553
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Plainview address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Plainview — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.