Lake Erie Beach, NY population, income and ZIP codes

Lake Erie Beach CDP is a small town in New York, with 3,247 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #472 of 1,292 ranked by population — larger than 63% of them. The median age here is 53.3 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Lake Erie Beach CDP earn a median of $57,234 a year, 27.1% below the national figure of $78,538 and 38% below the $91,806 median for the 847 New York cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 14.4% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Lake Erie Beach CDP is valued at $149,300, 50.8% below the national figure and 53% below the $315,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 96.7% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

A median age of 53.3 puts Lake Erie Beach CDP well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages.

The Census withheld gross rent for Lake Erie Beach CDP because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.