Baiting Hollow vs Moriches

A side-by-side comparison of Baiting Hollow and Moriches: population, income, housing, and more.

Baiting Hollow and Moriches are places in New York. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Baiting Hollow has the higher population (2,686 vs 2,407 in Moriches). Baiting Hollow has the higher median household income ($113,229 vs $78,269 in Moriches). Baiting Hollow has the higher median home value ($538,300 vs $466,500 in Moriches).

Population, income & housing

	Baiting Hollow	Moriches
Population	2,686	2,407
Median age	55.8 yrs	50.5 yrs
Median household income	$113,229	$78,269
Median home value	$538,300	$466,500
Median gross rent	—	$2,224
Housing units	1,616	1,417
Homeownership rate	97.8%	48.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher	39.4%	36.7%
Unemployment rate	5.7%	3.5%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Baiting Hollow	Moriches
Population	1,731 → 2,686 (+55.2%)	3,073 → 2,407 (-21.7%)
Median household income	$94,167 → $113,229 (+20.2%)	$65,618 → $78,269 (+19.3%)
Median home value	$435,300 → $538,300 (+23.7%)	$381,200 → $466,500 (+22.4%)
Median gross rent	$2,104 → $2,200 (+4.6%)	$1,772 → $2,224 (+25.5%)

Baiting Hollow

Population

1,7312,686

Median household income

$94,167$113,229

Median home value

$435,300$538,300

Median gross rent

$2,104$2,200

Moriches

Population

3,0732,407

Median household income

$65,618$78,269

Median home value

$381,200$466,500

Median gross rent

$1,772$2,224

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Baiting Hollow	Moriches
Under 5	3.1%	10.4%
5 to 17	12.2%	6.8%
18 to 24	3.2%	5.2%
25 to 34	7.5%	16.4%
35 to 44	6.3%	7.9%
45 to 54	15.4%	6.3%
55 to 64	24.2%	17.7%
65 to 74	18.4%	17.3%
75 and over	9.8%	12.0%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Baiting Hollow	Moriches
White (non-Hispanic)	89.0%	82.1%
Black or African American	2.0%	7.8%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.2%
Asian	3.5%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.4%
Some other race	1.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	1.6%	5.7%
Hispanic or Latino	2.8%	3.9%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Baiting Hollow	Moriches
No high school diploma	5.4%	2.8%
High school graduate	22.1%	34.7%
Some college or associate's	33.2%	25.8%
Bachelor's degree	23.3%	21.7%
Graduate or professional degree	16.0%	14.9%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Baiting Hollow	Moriches
Drove alone	75.3%	82.6%
Carpooled	8.8%	6.3%
Public transit	1.1%	5.2%
Walked	3.7%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	8.9%	1.5%
Other means	2.2%	4.3%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Baiting Hollow	Moriches
1-unit, detached	75.1%	35.1%
1-unit, attached	11.3%	5.7%
2 to 4 units	1.1%	14.2%
5 to 19 units	7.7%	18.6%
20 or more units	3.6%	26.4%
Mobile home & other	1.2%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Baiting Hollow	Moriches
Poverty rate	2.3%	16.7%
Average household size	2.40	1.96
Mean commute (minutes)	33	36
Median year structure built	1986	1994