Copake Lake vs Taconic Shores

A side-by-side comparison of Copake Lake and Taconic Shores: population, income, housing, and more.

Copake Lake and Taconic Shores are places in New York. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Copake Lake has the higher population (860 vs 629 in Taconic Shores). Taconic Shores has the higher median household income ($172,514 vs $118,632 in Copake Lake). Copake Lake has the higher median home value ($546,100 vs $186,800 in Taconic Shores).

Population, income & housing

	Copake Lake	Taconic Shores
Population	860	629
Median age	61.3 yrs	57.3 yrs
Median household income	$118,632	$172,514
Median home value	$546,100	$186,800
Housing units	735	476
Homeownership rate	94.5%	89.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher	56.6%	37.0%
Unemployment rate	2.0%	0.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Copake Lake	Taconic Shores
Population	688 → 860 (+25.0%)	686 → 629 (-8.3%)
Median household income	$66,111 → $118,632 (+79.4%)	$78,333 → $172,514 (+120.2%)
Median home value	$276,000 → $546,100 (+97.9%)	$231,400 → $186,800 (-19.3%)

Copake Lake

Population

688860

Median household income

$66,111$118,632

Median home value

$276,000$546,100

Taconic Shores

Population

686629

Median household income

$78,333$172,514

Median home value

$231,400$186,800

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Copake Lake	Taconic Shores
Under 5	0.8%	0.0%
5 to 17	9.8%	7.2%
18 to 24	3.6%	9.4%
25 to 34	7.8%	4.9%
35 to 44	9.8%	7.2%
45 to 54	9.5%	14.0%
55 to 64	25.8%	42.0%
65 to 74	21.0%	6.2%
75 and over	11.9%	9.2%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Copake Lake	Taconic Shores
White (non-Hispanic)	90.1%	92.8%
Black or African American	0.0%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.5%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.8%	0.0%
Two or more races	0.0%	2.2%
Hispanic or Latino	8.6%	4.9%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Copake Lake	Taconic Shores
No high school diploma	5.7%	5.3%
High school graduate	30.1%	44.0%
Some college or associate's	7.6%	13.7%
Bachelor's degree	28.0%	12.6%
Graduate or professional degree	28.6%	24.4%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Copake Lake	Taconic Shores
Drove alone	75.8%	78.0%
Carpooled	0.0%	5.1%
Public transit	1.0%	8.7%
Walked	2.6%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	18.0%	8.2%
Other means	2.6%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Copake Lake	Taconic Shores
1-unit, detached	98.6%	83.6%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	10.3%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	0.0%
20 or more units	1.4%	3.6%
Mobile home & other	0.0%	2.5%

Poverty & households

	Copake Lake	Taconic Shores
Poverty rate	0.8%	1.1%
Average household size	2.24	1.83
Mean commute (minutes)	31	42
Median year structure built	1981	1972