Baywood vs Center Moriches

A side-by-side comparison of Baywood and Center Moriches: population, income, housing, and more.

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

Center Moriches has the higher population (8,155 vs 7,577 in Baywood). Center Moriches has the higher median household income ($152,500 vs $112,546 in Baywood). Center Moriches has the higher median home value ($554,500 vs $411,900 in Baywood).

Population, income & housing

	Baywood	Center Moriches
Population	7,577	8,155
Median age	37.3 yrs	41.6 yrs
Median household income	$112,546	$152,500
Median home value	$411,900	$554,500
Median gross rent	$2,523	$2,130
Housing units	2,035	2,984
Homeownership rate	84.8%	86.4%
Bachelor's degree or higher	26.3%	40.9%
Unemployment rate	5.5%	3.7%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Baywood	Center Moriches
Population	7,275 → 7,577 (+4.2%)	8,147 → 8,155 (+0.1%)
Median household income	$99,023 → $112,546 (+13.7%)	$99,015 → $152,500 (+54.0%)
Median home value	$305,000 → $411,900 (+35.0%)	$388,700 → $554,500 (+42.7%)
Median gross rent	$2,012 → $2,523 (+25.4%)	$1,617 → $2,130 (+31.7%)

Baywood

Population

7,2757,577

Median household income

$99,023$112,546

Median home value

$305,000$411,900

Median gross rent

$2,012$2,523

Center Moriches

Population

8,1478,155

Median household income

$99,015$152,500

Median home value

$388,700$554,500

Median gross rent

$1,617$2,130

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Baywood	Center Moriches
Under 5	5.9%	7.8%
5 to 17	16.2%	17.5%
18 to 24	10.5%	9.2%
25 to 34	14.2%	10.1%
35 to 44	13.5%	11.0%
45 to 54	14.1%	14.5%
55 to 64	14.3%	16.6%
65 to 74	8.2%	6.2%
75 and over	3.2%	7.1%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Baywood	Center Moriches
White (non-Hispanic)	34.4%	79.6%
Black or African American	13.4%	2.4%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	2.3%	1.2%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.1%	0.0%
Some other race	0.5%	0.8%
Two or more races	1.6%	1.6%
Hispanic or Latino	47.7%	14.4%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Baywood	Center Moriches
No high school diploma	17.5%	5.1%
High school graduate	28.8%	21.5%
Some college or associate's	27.4%	32.6%
Bachelor's degree	16.8%	17.4%
Graduate or professional degree	9.6%	23.4%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Baywood	Center Moriches
Drove alone	74.9%	80.0%
Carpooled	12.0%	8.0%
Public transit	6.4%	3.2%
Walked	0.3%	1.7%
Bicycle	0.6%	0.0%
Worked from home	5.0%	6.4%
Other means	0.8%	0.7%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Baywood	Center Moriches
1-unit, detached	94.1%	85.8%
1-unit, attached	2.9%	5.9%
2 to 4 units	3.0%	0.4%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	5.5%
20 or more units	0.0%	2.4%
Mobile home & other	0.0%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Baywood	Center Moriches
Poverty rate	8.9%	4.0%
Average household size	3.74	2.80
Mean commute (minutes)	30	32
Median year structure built	1960	1976