Long Island • New York
Merrick
Real Estate. A Dock at the Door, Forty Minutes to Penn
Homes in Merrick sold at a median of
$879,000
across 242 closed sales in the twelve months to July 2026, up 7.9% on a year earlier.
From $460,000 in January 2013 to $879,000 in July 2026.
| Year | Merrick |
|---|---|
| 2013 | $460,000 |
| 2014 | $475,000 |
| 2015 | $488,500 |
| 2016 | $515,000 |
| 2017 | $552,000 |
| 2018 | $579,500 |
| 2019 | $575,000 |
| 2020 | $630,000 |
| 2021 | $690,000 |
| 2022 | $731,000 |
| 2023 | $750,000 |
| 2024 | $807,500 |
| 2025 | $830,000 |
| 2026 | $879,000 |
As of July 2026 · Rolling 12 months, single family · Source: OneKey® MLS
- Days on Market
- 22median, listing to contract
- Months Supply
- 2.3inventory at the current pace
- Of Original List
- 101.3%median share of the first asking price
- Price / sq ft
- $484median, finished space
12 of the 242 homes sold in the twelve months to July 2026 fell in the top band, $1,500,000 or More, at a median of $1,700,000 and $514 per square foot.
- $1,500,000 or More12$514 per square foot · 19 median days to contract
- $1,000,000 to $1,499,99964$490 per square foot · 22 median days to contract
- $750,000 to $999,999118$474 per square foot · 20 median days to contract
- $749,999 or Less48$502 per square foot · 25 median days to contract
| Price band | Closed sales | Share of sales | Median price | Median $/sq ft | Median days on market | Months supply | % of original list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $1,500,000 or More | 12 | 5.0% | $1,700,000 | $514 | 19 | 5.5 | 99.0% |
| $1,000,000 to $1,499,999 | 64 | 26.4% | $1,190,000 | $490 | 22 | 2.9 | 99.7% |
| $750,000 to $999,999 | 118 | 48.8% | $850,000 | $474 | 20 | 2.2 | 102.8% |
| $749,999 or Less | 48 | 19.8% | $671,000 | $502 | 25 | 1.1 | 98.6% |
As of July 2026 · Rolling 12 months, single family · Source: OneKey® MLS
About Merrick
Merrick’s best streets run south of Merrick Road, where the canal grid opens into Merrick Bay and most back yards end at a bulkhead. Inland, Merrick Gables holds the older and more architecturally settled blocks. The hamlet’s landmark is an unlikely one: Norman J. Levy Park & Preserve, a capped landfill turned 52-acre park whose 155-foot summit takes in Jones Beach, the bay, and the Manhattan skyline in a single sightline, a skyline the Babylon Branch reaches in about forty minutes, the shortest ride of the South Shore hamlets. Merrick is governed entirely from Hempstead Town Hall and split between two elementary districts that meet again in high school.
Finding a residence in Merrick
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What Sells in Merrick
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A Merrick home assessed at $1,000,000 carries
$26,866
a year, an effective rate of 2.69% of market value
- School
- $22,006
- County
- $3,040
- Town
- $1,820
Rates are levied per $1,000 of full market value and shown here against the Merrick 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
- 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 Merrick, the FEMA-mapped area in a high-risk zone is
6.4%
of mapped area, meaning Zone A or V, where a federally backed mortgage requires flood insurance
- Zone X
- 93.6%
- Zone AE
- 5.1%
- Zone VE
- 1.1%
- Zone A
- 0.1%
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 Merrick — 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
Merrick is served by the
Merrick Union Free School District
- Enrollment
- 1,594
- Schools
- 3
- 4-Year Graduation
- 96%
This graduation rate is reported under Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District, not Merrick Union Free School District. Merrick Union Free School District serves grades K-6 only. Its students matriculate to Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District for grades 7-12, so this is that combined district's rate, not a Merrick UFSD rate on its own.
Merrick is split between two elementary districts — Merrick UFSD and North Merrick UFSD, each with its own tax rate — that both feed the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District for grades 7-12.
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)
Merrick, as the Census Bureau measures it
| Figure | Merrick | Nassau County |
|---|---|---|
| Median home value | $715,700 | $658,700 |
| Median gross rent | $2,756 | $2,195 |
| Median year built | 1956 | 1955 |
| Housing units | 7,331 | 477,860 |
| Owner-occupied | 96% | 82% |
| Median rooms | 7.4 | 6.6 |
| Median household income | $179,415 | $143,408 |
| Workers commuting | 8,329 | 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 Merrick CDP, New York carries considerably more.
US Census Bureau · American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates · Merrick CDP, New York and Nassau County, New York
Getting to Merrick
- LIRR
- Babylon Branch from Merrick: about 40 to 43 minutes to Penn Station, with some peak trains faster on fewer stops.
- By Car
- The Southern State west to the Belt or Cross Island, roughly 25 to 30 miles to Midtown: 45 to 70 minutes or more depending on the hour, since the Southern State has no river crossing of its own.
Watch what your home is worth
Once a month we send where your home in Merrick 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.
Local expertise, brought to Merrick
Anthony Clemenza leads Park & Palm's representation in Merrick, 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.
