Yaphank, New York.
Typical home $567,782 (+5.8% in a year), asking rent $3,614 . New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,740 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $31,115 +6%
- $536,667$567,782 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $153,727 +37%
- $414,054$567,782 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.
- Yaphank$2,980
- 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 Yaphank, NY rose 5.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Yaphank, Suffolk County, New York
Yaphank, in Suffolk County, had 5,974 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $108,971 a year and half less, against $130,686 across Suffolk County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 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 residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Yaphank is a small community on Long Island, in Suffolk County. Household incomes here run below the county's, while typical home values and rents are high. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Precipitation is spread through the year as rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, shops, and restaurants and hotels. In Yaphank itself, some of the larger workplaces are Framerica, which makes door frames and sash, MJS Courier Services, and Petro Long Island - East, a heating oil dealer. Commutes are fairly long, and only a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. The Carmans River runs in or beside town, and Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge is a short drive away, as is Brookhaven State Park. Fire Island National Seashore, a protected stretch of coast, is also a short drive away. For a change of pace, the Long Island Game Farm, a zoo, is close by too.
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- 2,954households
- 35%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents 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 39° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 66°. About 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Shirley Brookhaven Airport weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Yaphank
- FramericaDoor frames and sash, wood and covered wood, manufacturing227
- MJS Courier Services Inc : MJS Courier ServicesCouriers and express delivery services125
- Petro Long Island - EastHeating oil dealers, direct selling116
- Long Island CompostGeneral merchandise, nondurable goods, merchant wholesalers68
- More ConsultingRoofing contractors53
- TruGreenLawn care45
- Paumanok EnvironmentalWaste transfer stations, nonhazardous solid35
- The Scotts Company - Long IslandGrowing media manufacturing & packaging35
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 728 people in all. 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 Yaphank’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 Suffolk County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
Yaphank home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Yaphank$567,782
- New York$524,942
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Yaphank listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Yaphank25.52%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Yaphank23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Yaphank7
Zip codes with a Yaphank address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Yaphank — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.