Syosset, New York.
Typical home $1,134,287 (+6.8% in a year), asking rent $5,167 . New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$3,208 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $72,450 +7%
- $1,061,838$1,134,287 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $298,209 +36%
- $836,078$1,134,287 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.
- Syosset$5,954
- 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 Syosset, NY rose 6.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Syosset, Nassau County, New York
Syosset, in Nassau County, had 19,259 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $187,273 a year and half less, against $146,202 across Nassau County; 4% 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 finance and property.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Syosset is a community on Long Island in Nassau County where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, and where homes cost a good deal more than most of the country. Household incomes run well above the county's, relatively few people live below the poverty line, and most adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and summers warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow spread across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by banks, insurance and property, professional and business services, and shops. Within Syosset itself, the biggest workplaces include the Syosset Central School District, Northwell and Syosset Hospital. Commutes are long, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. The big attractions of New York City are a longer drive away. Among the best known are the Statue of Liberty, a tourist attraction, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a museum. Central Park, a garden, is also a longer drive from town.
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- 5,998households
- 69%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 41 mintypical commute
- 25%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, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Syosset
- Syosset Central School DistrictSchool district1,250FTE
- Northwell892
- Syosset Hospital788
- Primo Brands - SyossetBottled water providers, direct selling95
- DTO LogisticsDelivery service86
- Marin WorkforceAddition, alteration and renovation, commercial and institutional building77
- SyossetMail and parcel delivery69
- Northwell48
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,153 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
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of SyossetRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Syosset’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.
Syosset home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Syosset$1,134,287
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Syosset listings, and the typical home goes pending in 25 days — the market is heating up.
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.
- Syosset21.49%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Syosset25
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Syosset56
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Syosset17
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Syosset$1,155,263
- 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 Syosset address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Syosset — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.