Baywood vs Sound Beach

A side-by-side comparison of Baywood and Sound Beach: population, income, housing, and more.

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

Baywood has the higher population (7,577 vs 7,207 in Sound Beach). Sound Beach has the higher median household income ($140,797 vs $112,546 in Baywood). Baywood has the higher median home value ($411,900 vs $384,100 in Sound Beach).

Population, income & housing

	Baywood	Sound Beach
Population	7,577	7,207
Median age	37.3 yrs	41.0 yrs
Median household income	$112,546	$140,797
Median home value	$411,900	$384,100
Median gross rent	$2,523	$2,798
Housing units	2,035	2,787
Homeownership rate	84.8%	85.4%
Bachelor's degree or higher	26.3%	47.4%
Unemployment rate	5.5%	6.6%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Baywood	Sound Beach
Population	7,275 → 7,577 (+4.2%)	7,821 → 7,207 (-7.9%)
Median household income	$99,023 → $112,546 (+13.7%)	$102,017 → $140,797 (+38.0%)
Median home value	$305,000 → $411,900 (+35.0%)	$309,600 → $384,100 (+24.1%)
Median gross rent	$2,012 → $2,523 (+25.4%)	$1,429 → $2,798 (+95.8%)

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

Sound Beach

Population

7,8217,207

Median household income

$102,017$140,797

Median home value

$309,600$384,100

Median gross rent

$1,429$2,798

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Baywood	Sound Beach
Under 5	5.9%	2.6%
5 to 17	16.2%	17.6%
18 to 24	10.5%	10.2%
25 to 34	14.2%	11.4%
35 to 44	13.5%	13.9%
45 to 54	14.1%	18.4%
55 to 64	14.3%	15.1%
65 to 74	8.2%	7.2%
75 and over	3.2%	3.5%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Baywood	Sound Beach
White (non-Hispanic)	34.4%	83.2%
Black or African American	13.4%	3.4%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.1%
Asian	2.3%	0.8%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.1%	0.0%
Some other race	0.5%	1.5%
Two or more races	1.6%	3.0%
Hispanic or Latino	47.7%	7.9%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Baywood	Sound Beach
No high school diploma	17.5%	1.1%
High school graduate	28.8%	23.2%
Some college or associate's	27.4%	28.3%
Bachelor's degree	16.8%	23.5%
Graduate or professional degree	9.6%	23.9%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Baywood	Sound Beach
Drove alone	74.9%	80.3%
Carpooled	12.0%	7.3%
Public transit	6.4%	4.2%
Walked	0.3%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.6%	0.0%
Worked from home	5.0%	6.0%
Other means	0.8%	2.1%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Baywood	Sound Beach
1-unit, detached	94.1%	98.1%
1-unit, attached	2.9%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	3.0%	0.9%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	0.0%	1.0%

Poverty & households

	Baywood	Sound Beach
Poverty rate	8.9%	2.6%
Average household size	3.74	2.64
Mean commute (minutes)	30	38
Median year structure built	1960	1958