The Hamptons • New York
Bridgehampton
Real Estate. Farmland to the North, Ocean to the South
About Bridgehampton
Bridgehampton has no village government at all; every decision runs through Southampton Town Hall, and its geography explains its prices better than any tax map. North of Montauk Highway, estates sit against Suffolk County–preserved farmland along Butter Lane and Mecox; south of it, Ocean Road runs down to the dunes and Sagg Main Beach. The Montauk Branch stops here, though the honest measure is the drive: two hours clear, far worse on a summer Friday. The scarcity is agricultural: the fields framing the best houses cannot be built on.
Finding a residence in Bridgehampton
We search Bridgehampton on your behalf
We are not publishing our own listings here at present, and we would rather say so than fill the page. What we do instead is the more useful half: we search across public listings, professional member systems, broker relationships, and direct outreach. Non-public opportunities are subject to seller authorization and availability.
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What Sells in Bridgehampton
Once a month we send the closed sales in Bridgehampton, measured rather than estimated, with a few practical notes on the house and one thing worth knowing if you are thinking of moving.
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A Bridgehampton home assessed at $1,000,000 carries
$3,767
a year, an effective rate of 0.38% of market value
- School
- $1,277
- County
- $1,690
- Town
- $800
Rates are levied per $1,000 of full market value and shown here against the Bridgehampton school district. This figure does not include special districts (fire, water, library, sanitation, ambulance); STAR, veterans, senior and other exemptions. We pull the actual bill for any specific parcel before you go to contract.
Fiscal year 2025 · NYS ORPTS real property tax rates (FY2025), Socrata iq85-sdzs
The window to challenge your assessment is short, and it is the same every year
- Grievance Day falls in May
- In Suffolk the filing period runs from May 1 to the third Tuesday in May, which is Tuesday, May 18, 2027. The grievance is filed with the assessor in your own town rather than with the county, and the date does not move. Filing costs nothing, and the case is made with what comparable houses actually sold for.
Filing dates are set by statute and computed from the rule rather than quoted from a past year. Confirm the current date with the assessor before you rely on it.
Within 2 miles of Bridgehampton, the FEMA-mapped area in a high-risk zone is
4.1%
of mapped area, meaning Zone A or V, where a federally backed mortgage requires flood insurance
- Zone X
- 95.9%
- Zone VE
- 2.4%
- Zone AE
- 1.5%
- Zone A
- 0.2%
Moderate to minimal
High risk (A/V)
High risk (A/V)
High risk (A/V)
This figure does not represent the share of homes or parcels at risk in Bridgehampton — only the share of FEMA-mapped area within a 2-mile radius of the town's page coordinates, not a property count or a town-wide figure; the flood zone of any single address, which must be confirmed against its own FIRM panel before pricing insurance.
Queried August 2026 · FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer (NFHL), MapServer layer 28 — public, unauthenticated
Bridgehampton is served by the
Bridgehampton Union Free School District
- Enrollment
- 182
- Schools
- 1
- 4-Year Graduation
- 89%
Per-pupil expenditure is not published in a form we can verify, so we do not show a figure for it. the 9-student cohort behind the graduation rate is small enough that a handful of students can swing it sharply year to year.
BEDS Day enrollment 2024; graduation rate reported 2022-23 · NYSED BEDS Day enrollment file and graduation-rate/outcomes file (bulk data, data.nysed.gov)
Bridgehampton, as the Census Bureau measures it
| Figure | Bridgehampton | Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|
| Median home value | $1,974,400 | $539,500 |
| Median gross rent | — | $2,190 |
| Median year built | 1992 | 1970 |
| Housing units | 2,351 | 579,790 |
| Owner-occupied | 89% | 82% |
| Median rooms | 6.8 | 6.4 |
| Median household income | $168,167 | $128,329 |
| Workers commuting | 432 | 686,108 |
The Bureau published no median gross rent for Bridgehampton. It withholds an estimate drawn from too small a sample, and a blank line is the honest way to carry that.
These figures describe the housing, not the people who live in it, and we publish them as the Bureau measured them without interpreting them. Its own profile for Bridgehampton CDP, New York carries considerably more.
US Census Bureau · American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates · Bridgehampton CDP, New York and Suffolk County, New York
Getting to Bridgehampton
- LIRR
- Montauk Branch, Bridgehampton station: about two and a quarter to two and a half hours to Penn Station, most trains changing at Jamaica. The seasonal Cannonball express runs it closer to two hours without a change. There is no one-seat ride to Grand Central Madison.
- By Car
- Roughly two and a quarter to two and three-quarter hours via the Expressway and Route 27. A Friday departure between three and seven in season can take four to six, and holiday weekends add another half hour on top.
Watch what your home is worth
Once a month we send where your home in Bridgehampton stands, drawn from recorded sales nearby rather than an algorithm's guess, with the range and the sample behind it. No listing, no call, and nothing public. A person is one reply away when you want one.
Thinking of selling? Read what a home in Bridgehampton sells for.
Local expertise, brought to Bridgehampton
Anthony Clemenza leads Park & Palm's representation in Bridgehampton, advising buyers and sellers on positioning, pricing, and the channels through which a residence here actually reaches the market. Anthony holds an active brokerage license in New York.
