Wheatley Heights, NY population, income and ZIP codes

Wheatley Heights CDP is a mid-size town in New York, with 5,266 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #346 of 1,292 ranked by population — larger than 73% of them. The median age here is 38.1 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Wheatley Heights CDP earn a median of $127,589 a year, 62.5% above the national figure of $78,538 and 39% above 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 5.2% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Wheatley Heights CDP is valued at $500,900, 65.1% above the national figure and 59% above the $315,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,836 a month, 30.6% above the national figure, or roughly $22,032 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 17.3% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.9×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 90.5% 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.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.