ZIP 11545 vs ZIP 11548

This side-by-side compares ZIP 11545 (Glen Head, NY) and ZIP 11548 (Greenvale, NY) using the same Census ACS 5-Year table fields for both — no averages swapped in, no national proxies. ZIP 11545 has a population of 12,065 at 406 people per square mile, while ZIP 11548 has 2,780 at 1,172 per square mile. That difference in population size and density alone reshapes how every other metric should be interpreted — a higher-income ZIP with 1,200 residents behaves very differently from one with 45,000.

On income and education, ZIP 11545 reports a median household income of $182,528 against $122,250 in ZIP 11548, with per-capita income of $121,986 vs $42,138. The share of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher is 70.2% in 11545 and 64.3% in 11548. Poverty rate reads 2.0% vs 2.9%, and unemployment 2.4% vs 13.1% — these four fields alone drive most of the difference in the scorecard grades you will see for each ZIP.

Housing separates these two ZIPs further: median home value sits at $1,101,100 in 11545 versus $816,800 in 11548, with median rent of $2,350 and — per month respectively. Homeownership rate is 89.5% vs 95.4%. When reading the comparison table below, focus on paired metrics rather than single winners — a ZIP with lower home values and lower income is not strictly "worse" if rent-to-income ratios and commute times land in the same zone. Every value is pulled from the exact same ACS table so the two columns are genuinely comparable.