Fire Island vs Quogue

A side-by-side comparison of Fire Island and Quogue: population, income, housing, and more.

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

Quogue has the higher population (602 vs 445 in Fire Island). Quogue has the higher median household income ($101,964 vs $90,179 in Fire Island). Quogue has the higher median home value ($1,821,900 vs $608,500 in Fire Island).

Population, income & housing

	Fire Island	Quogue
Population	445	602
Median age	48.7 yrs	60.0 yrs
Median household income	$90,179	$101,964
Median home value	$608,500	$1,821,900
Median gross rent	$1,750	$3,389
Housing units	2,852	1,472
Homeownership rate	77.4%	77.9%
Bachelor's degree or higher	39.0%	42.2%
Unemployment rate	0.0%	0.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Fire Island	Quogue
Population	293 → 445 (+51.9%)	558 → 602 (+7.9%)
Median household income	$106,875 → $90,179 (-15.6%)	$70,455 → $101,964 (+44.7%)
Median home value	$475,000 → $608,500 (+28.1%)	$1,260,400 → $1,821,900 (+44.5%)
Median gross rent	$1,500 → $1,750 (+16.7%)	$1,510 → $3,389 (+124.4%)

Fire Island

Population

293445

Median household income

$106,875$90,179

Median home value

$475,000$608,500

Median gross rent

$1,500$1,750

Quogue

Population

558602

Median household income

$70,455$101,964

Median home value

$1,260,400$1,821,900

Median gross rent

$1,510$3,389

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Fire Island	Quogue
Under 5	2.2%	7.3%
5 to 17	15.7%	14.0%
18 to 24	12.4%	5.5%
25 to 34	5.8%	2.2%
35 to 44	9.9%	9.3%
45 to 54	17.5%	5.3%
55 to 64	19.3%	19.3%
65 to 74	8.1%	17.6%
75 and over	9.0%	19.6%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Fire Island	Quogue
White (non-Hispanic)	43.8%	72.6%
Black or African American	20.2%	2.5%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	0.0%	3.0%
Hispanic or Latino	36.0%	21.9%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Fire Island	Quogue
No high school diploma	20.6%	1.4%
High school graduate	16.8%	37.6%
Some college or associate's	23.5%	18.8%
Bachelor's degree	17.4%	27.9%
Graduate or professional degree	21.6%	14.3%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Fire Island	Quogue
Drove alone	54.8%	72.7%
Carpooled	4.0%	0.0%
Public transit	10.4%	1.7%
Walked	9.2%	0.0%
Bicycle	5.6%	0.0%
Worked from home	15.6%	25.6%
Other means	0.4%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Fire Island	Quogue
1-unit, detached	95.2%	96.9%
1-unit, attached	0.9%	1.4%
2 to 4 units	1.8%	1.1%
5 to 19 units	1.3%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.7%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	0.1%	0.6%

Poverty & households

	Fire Island	Quogue
Poverty rate	3.2%	32.9%
Average household size	3.19	2.36
Mean commute (minutes)	42	17
Median year structure built	1963	1986