Valley Stream, New York.
Typical home $766,502 (+5.2% in a year), asking rent $3,236 (+0.7%). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,081 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $37,601 +5%
- $728,901$766,502 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $164,612 +27%
- $601,890$766,502 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.
- Valley Stream$4,023
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Valley Stream, NY rose 5.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Valley Stream, NY rose 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Valley Stream runs $2,541/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.
That is $5,777 a month against $3,236 rent: a $4,023 mortgage payment, plus $933 property tax and $821 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Valley Stream
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$5,777
- Renting$3,236
- Mortgage only$4,023
Property tax · $933/mo 1.46% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Nassau County, NY
Insurance & upkeep · $821/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Valley Stream, Nassau County, New York
Valley Stream is a village of 40,634 people in Nassau County. Half its households earn more than $133,190 a year and half less, against $146,202 across Nassau County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 79% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Valley Stream was 4.1% in August 2026, and Nassau 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. Valley Stream is a village in Nassau County, on Long Island, where most homes are lived in by their owners and the population is middle-aged. Incomes run a little below the county's, and typical home values and rents are high. A good share of adults have a four-year degree, and winters are cold and snowy while summers turn warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by banks, insurance and property, shops, and professional and business services. In the village itself, the largest workplaces include the Valley Stream Central High School District, Target and King Kullen. Commutes are long, and a modest share of people work from home.
Things to do. Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, a garden and park, is a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the Statue of Liberty, a tourist attraction, and to Central Park. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a museum, is also a longer drive away.
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- 12,340households
- 40%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 41 mintypical commute
- 12%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 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 69°. About 26 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the New York Jfk International Airport weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Valley Stream
- Valley Stream Central High School DistrictSchool district680FTE
- TargetDiscount department stores355
- Valley Stream 30 Union Free School DistrictSchool district240FTE
- Valley Stream 24 Union Free School DistrictSchool district151FTE
- Valley StreamMail and parcel delivery102
- King KullenSupermarkets95
- Sarcona Management Valley Stream WarehouseGeneral warehousing and storage67
- AramarkFood service contractors66
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 835 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of Valley StreamRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Valley Stream’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.
Valley Stream home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Valley Stream$766,502
- 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 5 Valley Stream listings, and the typical home goes pending in 40 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.
- Valley Stream19.37%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Valley Stream40
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Valley Stream176
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Valley Stream46
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Valley Stream$741,306
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Valley Stream100.57%
Zip codes with a Valley Stream address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Valley Stream — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Valley Stream
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11580 | Valley Stream | 43,092 | $3,062 | $752,943 |
| 11581 | Valley Stream | 22,818 | $3,350 | $821,883 |