Census-designated place · Suffolk County, New York
Miller Place, New York
Miller Place is a census-designated place in Suffolk County, New York, part of the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area. It has 11,736 residents. Miller Place, New York has a quality-of-life score of 93 out of 100 (very high), ranking #1,041 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within New York it ranks #195 of 859 cities and towns. It ranks best on violent crime rate (low), food environment index (high) and firearm deaths (low). It ranks worst on average commute time (high), effective property tax rate (high) and high ozone days (high).
93Very high
Quality-of-life score
#1,041 of 15,651 cities and towns
New York
#195 of 859 in NY
Population
11,736 (2020-2024)
Land area
7 mi²
Density
1,792.0 /mi²
FIPS code
3647306
Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 73 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.
Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.
Safety97#468/15,637
Economy89#1,697/15,631
Housing5#14,158/14,977
Health93#1,092/15,609
Healthcare89#1,773/15,650
Environment80#3,045/15,453
Education72#4,422/15,649
Infrastructure86#2,135/15,650
Community85#2,344/15,651
Leisure & amenities92#1,249/15,651
Strengths · Weaknesses
Indicators where Miller Place, New York ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Suffolk 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.
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.
Cities and towns like Miller Place, New York five years ago that improved
The places whose measures looked most like those of Miller Place, 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.
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).
Income
How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.
Homes
Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.
Getting to work
How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.
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.
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.
Federal contracts performed here
Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Miller Place is mostly in Suffolk County.
−0.3 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
30–44 min26%1,065
30–44 min
26%±6.2 points
1,065 workers±278 (90% margin of error)
22%in New York
21%
Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.
Miller Place, New York is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).
The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Suffolk County, the county holding most of Miller Place's residents.
Suffolk County has 50,748 employer establishments, 331 for every 10,000 residents (1.33× the US rate of 248; 1.21× New York's), with 592,580 paid employees at an average annual pay of $66,370. The Census Bureau also counts 163,751 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.
Establishments
50,748
163,751 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents
331
US 248 · New York 274
Paid employees
592,580
Average annual pay
$66,370
US $68,342
Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Suffolk County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation
County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)
Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 1,533,173 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.
In FY2026, an estimated $3,513 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Miller Place, New York: $0.30 per resident (US $1,995).
Obligations
$3,513
−82% vs FY2025
Per resident
$0.30
US $1,995
Sole-source
0.0%
US 30%
Single offer
0.0%
US 8.8%
A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.
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 Miller Place, New York, so they do not add up across cities.
Miller Place, New York's figures are part of those of Suffolk County, NY ($1.7B in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.
For comparison, Miller Place, New York itself moved −9.4 points in standing on average over the same 9 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.
Over about five years, Miller Place, New York improved on 2 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 3. 7 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.
Improved2
Property tax−0.6 points2.73% → 2.13%
Effective property tax rate
2.73% → 2.13%2015-2019 → 2020-2024
−0.6 pointsBeyond the margin of error (±0.5 points)
Standing among cities and towns: 3 → 6 (0 lowest, 100 highest)
More favourable than 94% of cities and towns
Household income+12%$130,341 → $146,492
Median household income
$130,341 → $146,4922015-2019 → 2020-2024
+12%Beyond the margin of error (±$15,741)
Standing among cities and towns: 96 → 93 (0 lowest, 100 highest)
Less favourable than 80% of cities and towns
Declined3
Rent burden+44 points49.6% → 94.1%
Rent-burdened households
49.6% → 94.1%2015-2019 → 2020-2024
+44 pointsBeyond the margin of error (±31.2 points)
Standing among cities and towns: 43 → 1 (0 lowest, 100 highest)
Less favourable than 99% of cities and towns
Child poverty+6.4 points0.0% → 6.4%
Child poverty rate
0.0% → 6.4%2015-2019 → 2020-2024
+6.4 pointsBeyond the margin of error (±4.4 points)
Standing among cities and towns: 94 → 76 (0 lowest, 100 highest)
Less favourable than 83% of cities and towns
Price / income+0.8×3.4× → 4.2×
Home price to income ratio
All 12 measures
Change of every measure of Miller Place, New York between two periods about five years apart
Measure
Before
After
Change
Reading
Favourable vs peers
Average commute time
39.7 min2015-2019
32.7 min2020-2024
−7.0 min
Within the margin of error
95%
Bachelor's degree or higher
50.9%2015-2019
45.4%2020-2024
−5.5 points
Within the margin of error
6%
Broadband subscriptions
94.6%2015-2019
98.3%2020-2024
+3.7 points
Within the margin of error
24%
Child poverty rate
0.0%2015-2019
6.4%2020-2024
+6.4 points
Declined
17%
Effective property tax rate
2.73%2015-2019
2.13%2020-2024
−0.6 points
Improved
94%
High school diploma or higher
97.5%2015-2019
94.4%2020-2024
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.
3.4× → 4.2×2015-2019 → 2020-2024
+0.8×Beyond the margin of error (±0.5×)
Standing among cities and towns: 33 → 31 (0 lowest, 100 highest)
Less favourable than 69% of cities and towns
−3.1 points
Within the margin of error
10%
Home price to income ratio
3.4×2015-2019
4.2×2020-2024
+0.8×
Declined
31%
Income inequality (Gini index)
0.3872015-2019
0.4072020-2024
+0.021
Within the margin of error
33%
Median household income
$130,3412015-2019
$146,4922020-2024
+12%
Improved
20%
Poverty rate
2.5%2015-2019
5.8%2020-2024
+3.3 points
Within the margin of error
19%
Rent-burdened households
49.6%2015-2019
94.1%2020-2024
+44 points
Declined
1%
Unemployment rate
4.7%2015-2019
5.1%2020-2024
+0.3 points
Within the margin of error
41%
“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.
