Sands Point, New York.
Typical home $3,467,851 (+11.8% in a year). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$10,459 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $366,046 +12%
- $3,101,805$3,467,851 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $1,084,111 +45%
- $2,383,740$3,467,851 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.
- Sands Point$18,202
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Sands Point, NY rose 11.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sands Point, Nassau County, New York
Sands Point is a village of 2,712 people in Nassau County. 97% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 3% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sands Point is a small village on the North Shore of Long Island, and nearly every home in it is lived in by the people who own it. Home values are far higher than in most places, incomes in the county as a whole are well above the national level, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Almost all adults have a four-year degree, and winters are cold while summers are warm, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in banks, insurance and property, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Nassau County the biggest employers are hospitals, among them Long Island Jewish Medical Center, North Shore University Hospital and Nassau University Medical Center. The typical commute is long, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. The Bronx Zoo is a short drive away, and it is the closest of the well-known places on the list. A longer drive reaches the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of the best known museums in the country, and Central Park, the city's famous garden. The Statue of Liberty, also a longer drive away, is a landmark many visitors make the trip for.
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- 822households
- 90%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 50 mintypical commute
- 27%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 40° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 71°. About 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bronx weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Nassau County
- Long Island Jewish Medical CenterGeneral hospital15,304FTE
- North Shore University HospitalGeneral hospital14,219FTE
- FreedomCareHome care of elderly, non-medical12,475
- Northwell7,689
- Nassau University Medical CenterGeneral hospital3,343FTE
- South Nassau Communities HospitalGeneral hospital3,279FTE
- St. Francis HospitalGeneral hospital3,061FTE
- Hofstra UniversityUniversity or college2,547
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 647 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 152,966 people in all across the county; Sands Point has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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 high
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sands Point’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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.
Sands Point home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sands Point$3,467,851
- 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.
- Sands Point11
Zip codes with a Sands Point address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sands Point — 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.