Wainscott, New York.
Typical home $4,146,461 (+4.7% in a year). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$11,272 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $184,809 +5%
- $3,961,652$4,146,461 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $672,913 +19%
- $3,473,549$4,146,461 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.
- Wainscott$21,764
- New York$2,755
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Wainscott, NY rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wainscott, Suffolk County, New York
Wainscott, in Suffolk County, had 904 people in the 2020 census. 95% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 5% are rented. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wainscott is a very small community on the east end of Long Island, with homes that are almost all lived in by their owners. Typical home values are far higher than in most of the country, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than you might expect given those values. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs near freezing, while summers are warm, with July the warmest month; the year brings a fair amount of snow and a good deal of rain.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Suffolk County, some of the largest workplaces are Stony Brook University Hospital, Stony Brook University and South Shore University Hospital. Unemployment across the county is about where it was a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs over the past year.
Things to do. For museums, Dia Bridgehampton is in or beside town, and the Parrish Art Museum and the Sag Harbor Whaling Museum are each a short drive away. For time outdoors, the Amagansett National Wildlife Refuge is a short drive away, and Hither Hills State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive.
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- 16%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 81° and lows near 64°. About 27 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bridgehampton weather station, 2 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; Wainscott has one 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
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Wainscott’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.
Wainscott home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wainscott$4,146,461
- 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.
- Wainscott10
Zip codes with a Wainscott address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wainscott — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.