Sunset Bay, NY population, income and ZIP codes

Sunset Bay CDP is a very small community in New York, with 392 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1111 of 1,292 ranked by population — larger than 14% of them. The median age here is 65.1 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 Sunset Bay CDP earn a median of not published a year. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 35.2% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Sunset Bay CDP is valued at $215,400, 29% below the national figure and 32% below the $315,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 89.5% 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. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

A median age of 65.1 puts Sunset Bay 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. With 392 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Sunset Bay CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income, gross rent for Sunset Bay 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.