Garden City Park vs Plainedge

A side-by-side comparison of Garden City Park and Plainedge: population, income, housing, and more.

Garden City Park and Plainedge are places in New York. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Plainedge has the higher population (8,930 vs 8,176 in Garden City Park). Plainedge has the higher median household income ($155,670 vs $135,208 in Garden City Park). Garden City Park has the higher median home value ($796,600 vs $592,000 in Plainedge).

Population, income & housing

	Garden City Park	Plainedge
Population	8,176	8,930
Median age	40.1 yrs	40.7 yrs
Median household income	$135,208	$155,670
Median home value	$796,600	$592,000
Median gross rent	$2,546	$3,261
Housing units	2,544	2,851
Homeownership rate	85.0%	92.3%
Bachelor's degree or higher	54.3%	40.7%
Unemployment rate	5.1%	4.1%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Garden City Park	Plainedge
Population	8,335 → 8,176 (-1.9%)	8,975 → 8,930 (-0.5%)
Median household income	$108,894 → $135,208 (+24.2%)	$123,500 → $155,670 (+26.0%)
Median home value	$636,700 → $796,600 (+25.1%)	$430,700 → $592,000 (+37.5%)
Median gross rent	$2,006 → $2,546 (+26.9%)	$1,946 → $3,261 (+67.6%)

Garden City Park

Population

8,3358,176

Median household income

$108,894$135,208

Median home value

$636,700$796,600

Median gross rent

$2,006$2,546

Plainedge

Population

8,9758,930

Median household income

$123,500$155,670

Median home value

$430,700$592,000

Median gross rent

$1,946$3,261

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Garden City Park	Plainedge
Under 5	6.1%	7.3%
5 to 17	17.9%	13.8%
18 to 24	9.9%	6.8%
25 to 34	9.3%	16.1%
35 to 44	15.1%	12.3%
45 to 54	8.3%	13.3%
55 to 64	14.9%	13.4%
65 to 74	9.6%	8.2%
75 and over	8.9%	8.8%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Garden City Park	Plainedge
White (non-Hispanic)	30.4%	71.3%
Black or African American	1.5%	0.6%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.1%	0.0%
Asian	44.8%	14.6%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	2.4%	0.0%
Two or more races	3.8%	1.7%
Hispanic or Latino	17.0%	11.7%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Garden City Park	Plainedge
No high school diploma	6.8%	7.6%
High school graduate	20.8%	26.2%
Some college or associate's	18.1%	25.6%
Bachelor's degree	30.8%	23.0%
Graduate or professional degree	23.4%	17.6%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Garden City Park	Plainedge
Drove alone	67.3%	77.5%
Carpooled	5.4%	3.9%
Public transit	13.4%	8.8%
Walked	0.6%	1.1%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	13.3%	8.1%
Other means	0.0%	0.5%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Garden City Park	Plainedge
1-unit, detached	85.5%	93.2%
1-unit, attached	0.9%	3.1%
2 to 4 units	6.9%	1.6%
5 to 19 units	0.6%	1.3%
20 or more units	3.7%	0.4%
Mobile home & other	2.4%	0.3%

Poverty & households

	Garden City Park	Plainedge
Poverty rate	2.4%	4.8%
Average household size	3.27	3.09
Mean commute (minutes)	33	31
Median year structure built	1955	1956