Village · Nassau County, New York

East Hills, New York

East Hills is a village in Nassau County, New York, part of the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area. It has 7,257 residents. East Hills, New York has a quality-of-life score of 100 out of 100 (very high), ranking #12 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within New York it ranks #4 of 859 cities and towns. It ranks best on public transit commuters (high), food environment index (high) and median household income (high). It ranks worst on average commute time (high), high ozone days (high) and home price to income ratio (high).

100Very high

Quality-of-life score: #12 of 15,651 cities and towns
New York: #4 of 859 in NY
Population: 7,257 (2020-2024)
Land area: 2 mi²
Density: 3,184.0 /mi²
FIPS code: 3622260

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 72 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety94#949/15,637
Economy96#666/15,631
Housing—
Health100#60/15,609
Healthcare99#146/15,650
Environment86#2,121/15,453
Education87#1,981/15,649
Infrastructure82#2,864/15,650
Community96#659/15,651
Leisure & amenities95#683/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where East Hills, New York ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Nassau County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Public transit commuters · high22.0%
100/100New York 21.6%United States 3.2%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08301High uncertainty
Food environment index · high10.0
100/100New York 8.7United States 7.62019 & 2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteNassau County value
Median household income · high$250,001
100/100New York $85,768United States $81,6042020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19013
Poor or fair health · low9.2%
99/100New York 16.8%United States 19.9%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Adult smoking · low6.0%
99/100New York 14.0%United States 16.1%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Bachelor's degree or higher · high80.9%
99/100New York 40.2%United States 35.7%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003

Weaknesses

Average commute time · high48.5 min
1/100New York 32.6 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013
High ozone days · high10 days
7/100New York 4 daysUnited States 7 days2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyNassau County value
Home price to income ratio · high5.8×
11/100New York 4.9×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Time spent in the emergency room · high217 min
14/100New York 202 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesNassau County value
Income inequality (Gini index) · high0.456
17/100New York 0.517United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Effective property tax rate · high1.58%
18/100New York 1.30%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

Home price to income ratioWorsening
4.7× (2015-2019) → 5.8× (2020-2024)
+24%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Public transit commutersImproving
17.5% (2015-2019) → 22.0% (2020-2024)
+4.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B08301US 5.0% → 3.2%
New homes permittedImproving
1.2 /1k (2021) → 1.5 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
+22%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Average commute timeWorsening
41.6 min (2015-2019) → 48.5 min (2020-2024)
+17%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min
Income inequality (Gini index)Worsening
0.391 (2015-2019) → 0.456 (2020-2024)
+17%5 yearsCensus table B19083US 0.482 → 0.483
Uninsured residents (under 65)Worsening
0.6% (2015-2019) → 3.1% (2020-2024)
+2.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, East Hills, New York improved on 1 of 9 measures with a comparison and declined on 2. 6 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved1

Household income+11%$224,583 → $250,001

Declined2

Inequality+0.0650.391 → 0.456
Price / income+1.1×4.7× → 5.8×

All 9 measures

Change of every measure of East Hills, New York between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	41.6 min2015-2019	48.5 min2020-2024	+6.9 min	Within the margin of error	5%
Bachelor's degree or higher	83.3%2015-2019	80.9%2020-2024	−2.4 points	Within the margin of error	15%
Broadband subscriptions	97.6%2015-2019	97.1%2020-2024	−0.5 points	Within the margin of error	7%
Effective property tax rate	1.74%2015-2019	1.58%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	49%
High school diploma or higher	99.2%2015-2019	97.5%2020-2024	−1.7 points	Within the margin of error	17%
Home price to income ratio	4.7×2015-2019	5.8×2020-2024	+1.1×	Declined	17%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3912015-2019	0.4562020-2024	+0.065	Declined	11%
Median household income	$224,5832015-2019	$250,0012020-2024	+11%	Improved	18%
Unemployment rate	2.3%2015-2019	4.1%2020-2024	+1.8 points	Within the margin of error	19%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like East Hills, New York five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of East Hills, New York in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, East Hills, New York itself moved −8.8 points in standing on average over the same 8 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

7,257 residents (±70)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

2,169 households (±138)

East Hills, New York
New York share

Under $25k6.8%†148
$25k–50k2.4%†51
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

2,169 households (±138)

East Hills, New York
New York share

Own100%2,169
Rent0.0%0

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

Table view

Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

3,818 workers (±460)

East Hills, New York
New York share

Drive alone51%1,944
Carpool4.4%†167
Public transit22%†839

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Nassau County, the county holding most of East Hills's residents.

Nassau County has 48,718 employer establishments, 351 for every 10,000 residents (1.41× the US rate of 248; 1.28× New York's), with 562,420 paid employees at an average annual pay of $67,891. The Census Bureau also counts 178,436 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 48,718; 178,436 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 351; US 248 · New York 274
Paid employees: 562,420
Average annual pay: $67,891; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Nassau County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Ambulatory health care services	4,809	34.6	1.66×More than typical	63,224	$60,299	11,677
Restaurants and other eating places	3,405	24.5	1.33×More than typical	44,319	$29,245	685
Specialty trade contractors	2,825	20.3	1.31×More than typical	21,930	$85,644	6,157
Lessors of real estate	2,648	19.1	1.55×More than typical	9,362	$81,426	32,917
Construction of buildings	1,865	13.4	1.78×More than typical	7,590	$74,187	4,118
Legal services	1,781	12.8	2.38×More than typical	10,389	$101,915	3,700
Personal care services	1,747	12.6	2.64×More than typical	7,816	$23,460	3,418
Offices of physicians	1,666	12	1.85×More than typical	16,417	$92,818	2,483
Management, scientific and technical consulting	1,664	12	1.79×More than typical	6,945	$83,152	7,613
Offices of other health practitioners	1,592	11.5	1.89×More than typical	9,176	$43,392	6,190
Services to buildings and dwellings	1,530	11	1.63×More than typical	11,964	$43,715	5,982
Accounting, tax preparation and payroll services	1,432	10.3	2.53×More than typical	6,490	$85,101	3,683

Rank places for an industry Open Nassau County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 1,388,940 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $271.4K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in East Hills, New York: $37.40 per resident (US $2,007).

Obligations: $271.4K; +38% vs FY2025
Per resident: $37.40; US $2,007
Sole-source: 0.4%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.0%; US 8.7%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

INDEPENDENT METAL STRAP CO INC$270.2K99.6%
MEDEQUIP SUPPLY CORP.$9850.4%
MR UNLIMITED, LLC$2170.1%
IET LABS INC$00.0%

Spending by fiscal year

2.8MFY2017
1.4MFY2018
1.8MFY2019
1.1MFY2020
1.3MFY2021
677.3KFY2022
320.2KFY2023
182.9K

Top industries (NAICS)

Other general purpose machinery manufacturing · 3339$269.6K99%
Medical equipment and supplies manufacturing · 3391$9850.4%
Plastics product manufacturing · 3261$6810.3%
Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing · 3254$2170.1%

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in East Hills, New York, so they do not add up across cities.

East Hills, New York's figures are part of those of Nassau County, NY ($654.1M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: East Hills is mostly in Nassau County.

See federal money in Nassau County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

East Hills, New York is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

Senate

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County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Nassau County97100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ68

Other cities and towns in Nassau County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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