Long Island • New York
Garden City
Real Estate. A Village Drawn Before It Was Built
Homes in Garden City sold at a median of
$1,475,000
across 184 closed sales in the twelve months to July 2026, up 4.9% on a year earlier.
Measured separately, Garden City (School District) reads $1,480,000 across 181 closed sales in the twelve months to July 2026, up 1.0% on a year earlier.
From $729,000 in January 2013 to $1,475,000 in July 2026. The dashed line is Garden City (School District).
| Year | Garden City |
|---|---|
| 2013 | $812,500 |
| 2014 | $827,000 |
| 2015 | $870,000 |
| 2016 | $870,000 |
| 2017 | $922,500 |
| 2018 | $923,500 |
| 2019 | $935,027 |
| 2020 | $920,000 |
| 2021 | $1,051,100 |
| 2022 | $1,080,000 |
| 2023 | $1,225,000 |
| 2024 | $1,332,500 |
| 2025 | $1,500,000 |
| 2026 | $1,475,000 |
As of July 2026 · Rolling 12 months, single family · Source: OneKey® MLS
- Days on Market
- 17median, listing to contract
- Months Supply
- 1.5inventory at the current pace
- Of Original List
- 101.0%median share of the first asking price
- Price / sq ft
- $697median, finished space
About Garden City
Garden City is one of the very few American suburbs that was designed whole before a single house went up. Alexander Turney Stewart bought the open Hempstead Plains in 1869 and laid out broad tree-lined boulevards, generous setbacks and a cathedral at the center, and the village has kept that plan with unusual discipline ever since. The streets are wide, the London planes and oaks along them are a century and a half old, and the commercial blocks are held to a few tight streets rather than allowed to spread. It is flat, walkable ground with no mapped flood exposure at all, a rarity in Nassau County, and the whole of it lies inside the incorporated village, which is why almost everything about it is decided locally.
Finding a residence in Garden City
We search Garden City 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.
Tell us what you are looking for in Garden City and you will hear from us within 24 hours.
The next step
Thinking seriously about Garden City?
Tell us what the residence has to make possible, and we will tell you honestly whether it exists here at the price you have in mind — and what it would take if it does not.
What Sells in Garden City
Once a month we send the closed sales in Garden City, 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 Garden City home assessed at $1,000,000 carries
$16,228
a year, an effective rate of 1.62% of market value
- School
- $11,368
- County
- $3,040
- Town
- $1,820
Rates are levied per $1,000 of full market value and shown here against the Garden City school district. This figure does not include special districts (fire, water, library, sanitation, ambulance); STAR, veterans, senior and other exemptions; the Incorporated Village of Garden City levies its own tax on top of this, and every address in Garden City is inside it — so this figure understates every parcel in the village, not merely some. 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
- The window to challenge your assessment opens in January
- In Nassau the filing period runs from early January to the statutory deadline of March 1, and the grievance goes to the Assessment Review Commission. The Commission has extended that date in recent years, to March 31 for the 2027/28 roll, but each extension is announced annually and is not something to count on. It costs nothing to file, and the work worth doing now is gathering what comparable houses actually sold for. Confirm the current date with the Commission before you rely on it.
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 Garden City, the FEMA-mapped area in a high-risk zone is
0%
of mapped area, meaning Zone A or V, where a federally backed mortgage requires flood insurance
- Zone X
- 100%
Moderate to minimal
This figure does not represent the share of homes or parcels at risk in Garden City — 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
Garden City is served by the
Garden City Union Free School District
- Enrollment
- 3,939
- Schools
- 7
- 4-Year Graduation
- 98%
Garden City UFSD follows the incorporated village closely, but the adjoining Garden City Park and Garden City South are separate places in other districts despite the shared name.
Per-pupil expenditure is not published in a form we can verify, so we do not show a figure for it.
BEDS Day enrollment 2024; graduation rate reported 2022-23 · NYSED BEDS Day enrollment file and graduation-rate/outcomes file (bulk data, data.nysed.gov)
Garden City, as the Census Bureau measures it
| Figure | Garden City | Nassau County |
|---|---|---|
| Median home value | $1,063,300 | $658,700 |
| Median gross rent | $3,478 | $2,195 |
| Median year built | 1950 | 1955 |
| Housing units | 8,085 | 477,860 |
| Owner-occupied | 92% | 82% |
| Median rooms | 7.9 | 6.6 |
| Median household income | $228,807 | $143,408 |
| Workers commuting | 8,153 | 588,204 |
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 Garden City village, New York carries considerably more.
US Census Bureau · American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates · Garden City village, New York and Nassau County, New York
Getting to Garden City
- LIRR
- Three LIRR stations serve the village: Garden City and Nassau Boulevard on the Hempstead Branch, with Stewart Manor at the western edge. All three put Penn Station and Grand Central around fifty minutes away by way of Jamaica. The Hempstead Branch is a change-at-Jamaica line rather than a one-seat ride, which is the honest trade against the shorter timings on the South Shore.
- By Car
- The Meadowbrook and Northern State Parkways are both minutes out, and Midtown is roughly fifty minutes off-peak by way of the Long Island Expressway. Roosevelt Field and the office concentration around it are close enough that a meaningful share of the village does not commute west at all.
Watch what your home is worth
Once a month we send where your home in Garden City 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 Garden City sells for.
Local expertise, brought to Garden City
Anthony Clemenza leads Park & Palm's representation in Garden City, 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.
