Census-designated place · Westchester County, New York

Shrub Oak, New York

Shrub Oak is a census-designated place in Westchester County, New York, part of the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area. It has 2,498 residents. Shrub Oak, New York has a quality-of-life score of 98 out of 100 (very high), ranking #276 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within New York it ranks #61 of 859 cities and towns. It ranks best on rent as share of income (low), poverty rate (low) and traffic deaths (low). It ranks worst on average commute time (high), effective property tax rate (high) and high ozone days (high).

98Very high

Quality-of-life score: #276 of 15,651 cities and towns
New York: #61 of 859 in NY
Population: 2,498 (2020-2024)
Land area: 2 mi²
Density: 1,582.8 /mi²
FIPS code: 3667279

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 76 of 83 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.

Safety95#779/15,637
Economy97#437/15,631
Housing82#2,715/14,977
Health98#278/15,609
Healthcare99#174/15,650
Environment52#7,373/15,453
Education80#3,193/15,650
Infrastructure61#6,170/15,650
Community87#2,037/15,651
Leisure & amenities97#422/15,651
Nature & outdoors—

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Shrub Oak, New York ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Westchester 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

Rent as share of income · low9.0%
100/100New York 31.2%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Poverty rate · low0.8%
99/100New York 14.0%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001High uncertainty
Traffic deaths · low4.1 /100k
99/100New York 5.6 /100kUnited States 12.3 /100k2020-2024National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationProvisional dataWestchester County value
Access to exercise opportunities · high99.7%
98/100New York 93.1%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWestchester County value
Injury deaths · low45 /100k
98/100New York 64 /100kUnited States 87 /100k2019-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWestchester County value
Life expectancy · high83.3 yrs
98/100New York 80.4 yrsUnited States 77.6 yrs2021-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWestchester County value

Weaknesses

Average commute time · high32.5 min
2/100New York 32.6 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013
Effective property tax rate · high1.90%
9/100New York 1.30%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
High ozone days · high6 days
13/100New York 4 daysUnited States 7 days2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyWestchester County value
High school diploma or higher · low97.2%
16/100New York 88.0%United States 89.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Time spent in the emergency room · high206 min
18/100New York 202 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesWestchester County value
Days with unhealthy air · high1.6%
23/100New York 1.2%2025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyWestchester County value

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
2,861 (2015-2019) → 2,498 (2020-2024)
−13%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateImproving
16.8% (2015-2019) → 0.0% (2020-2024)
−17 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
High school diploma or higherImproving
82.7% (2015-2019) → 97.2% (2020-2024)
+15 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
15.6% (2015-2019) → 1.2% (2020-2024)
−14 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Unemployment rateImproving
13.6% (2015-2019) → 0.5% (2020-2024)
−13 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
27.0% (2015-2019) → 15.8% (2020-2024)
−11 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%

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, Shrub Oak, New York improved on 1 of 9 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 8 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

Rent / income−9.4 points18.4% → 9.0%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 9 measures

Change of every measure of Shrub Oak, New York between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	35.6 min2015-2019	32.5 min2020-2024	−3.1 min	Within the margin of error	80%
Bachelor's degree or higher	47.7%2015-2019	57.2%2020-2024	+9.5 points	Within the margin of error	89%
Effective property tax rate	2.79%2015-2019	1.91%2020-2024	−0.9 points	Within the margin of error	99%
High school diploma or higher	82.7%2015-2019	97.2%2020-2024	+15 points	Within the margin of error	98%
Home price to income ratio	3.1×2015-2019	3.0×2020-2024	−0.1×	Within the margin of error	84%
Households subscribed to broadband	85.0%2015-2019	88.5%2020-2024	+3.4 points	Within the margin of error	22%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3642015-2019	0.3112020-2024	−0.053	Within the margin of error	85%
Median household income	$112,0832015-2019	$172,7782020-2024	+54%	Within the margin of error	88%
Rent as share of income	18.4%2015-2019	9.0%2020-2024	−9.4 points	Improved	92%

“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 Shrub Oak, New York five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Shrub Oak, 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, Shrub Oak, New York itself moved +10.3 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.

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

2,498 residents (±711)

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

972 households (±262)

Shrub Oak, New York
New York share

Under $25k1.1%†11
$25k–50k13%†128
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

972 households (±262)

Shrub Oak, New York
New York share

Own67%†653
Rent33%†319

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

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

1,540 workers (±615)

Shrub Oak, New York
New York share

Drive alone84%†1,288
Carpool5.6%†87
Public transit

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 Westchester County, the county holding most of Shrub Oak's residents.

Westchester County has 31,174 employer establishments, 312 for every 10,000 residents (1.26× the US rate of 248; 1.14× New York's), with 389,560 paid employees at an average annual pay of $85,148. The Census Bureau also counts 115,574 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 31,174; 115,574 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 312; US 248 · New York 274
Paid employees: 389,560
Average annual pay: $85,148; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	2,506	25.1	1.20×About typical	39,837	$69,850	8,193
Specialty trade contractors	2,318	23.2	1.50×More than typical	20,005	$79,851	5,305
Restaurants and other eating places	2,240	22.4	1.22×About typical	26,931	$30,753	527
Lessors of real estate	1,996	20	1.62×More than typical	7,180	$75,856	16,874
Construction of buildings	1,374	13.8	1.82×More than typical	6,200	$90,557	2,613
Services to buildings and dwellings	1,237	12.4	1.84×More than typical	8,566	$48,255	4,985
Full-service restaurants	1,065	10.7	1.39×More than typical	15,335	$35,054	286
Personal care services	1,007	10.1	2.11×More than typical	4,422	$27,563	2,693
Management, scientific and technical consulting	957	9.6	1.43×More than typical	6,680	$160,976	6,568
Building equipment contractors	912	9.1	1.52×More than typical	7,699	$84,352	1,002
Legal services	891	8.9	1.66×More than typical	4,832	$113,561	2,641
Landscaping services	847	8.5	2.42×More than typical	3,073	$67,198	1,034

Rank places for an industry Open Westchester County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 998,335 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.

Public schools

Public schools located in Shrub Oak, New York and the districts that run them (NCES Common Core of Data). Students per teacher counts full-time-equivalent teachers, not the size of each class.

Shrub Oak, New York has 1 public schools with 466 students and 11.0 students per teacher (New York: 11.3, US: 15.2).

1 schools serve free meals to every student.

Elementary schools: 1
Middle schools: 0
High schools: 0
Students per teacher: 11.0; US: 15.2

School districts

Districts with schools here, by students here.

District	Schools	Students	Spending / student
Lakeland Central School District	1	466	$32,221

Largest schools

School	Grades	Students	Students / teacher	District
Benjamin Franklin Elementary SchoolFree meals for all	K–5	466	11.0	Lakeland Central School District

All 1 schools

Sources

Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).

Federal contracts performed here

No federal contract obligations recorded here in FY2026.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Shrub Oak is mostly in Westchester County.

See federal money in Westchester 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.

Shrub Oak, 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.

Westchester County91100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ72

Other cities and towns in Westchester 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
National Broadband Map (Broadband Data Collection)Federal Communications Commission · release 2025-12-31
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
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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