Long Island • New York
Roslyn
Real Estate. A Mill Village at the Head of the Harbor
Homes in Roslyn sold at a median of
$1,488,000
across 47 closed sales in the twelve months to July 2026, level with a year earlier.
Measured separately, Roslyn (School District) reads $1,600,000 across 138 closed sales in the twelve months to July 2026, up 0.7% on a year earlier.
From $728,000 in January 2013 to $1,488,000 in July 2026. The dashed line is Roslyn (School District).
| Year | Roslyn |
|---|---|
| 2013 | $765,000 |
| 2014 | $827,500 |
| 2015 | $965,000 |
| 2016 | $922,500 |
| 2017 | $990,000 |
| 2018 | $973,500 |
| 2019 | $1,050,000 |
| 2020 | $1,039,000 |
| 2021 | $1,195,000 |
| 2022 | $1,270,000 |
| 2023 | $1,265,000 |
| 2024 | $1,465,000 |
| 2025 | $1,430,000 |
| 2026 | $1,488,000 |
As of July 2026 · Rolling 12 months, single family · Source: OneKey® MLS
- Days on Market
- 26median, listing to contract
- Months Supply
- 4.6inventory at the current pace
- Of Original List
- 100.0%median share of the first asking price
- Price / sq ft
- $581median, finished space
About Roslyn
Roslyn sits in a steep ravine at the head of Hempstead Harbor, and the topography is the whole story. Where most of the North Shore rolls, Roslyn drops: the old village is built along a narrow valley floor around a mill pond, with the land rising sharply on both sides, and the result is a center of eighteenth and nineteenth-century buildings that survived because the terrain made large-scale redevelopment impractical. Main Street holds one of the densest concentrations of pre-1850 architecture in Nassau County, the clock tower at its foot dates from 1895, and the Gold Coast estates on the ridges above were built to look down at the water. It is a small incorporated village surrounded by several others that share its name, which is a distinction with real financial consequences.
Finding a residence in Roslyn
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What Sells in Roslyn
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A Roslyn home assessed at $1,000,000 carries
$17,072
a year, an effective rate of 1.71% of market value
- School
- $13,232
- County
- $3,040
- Town
- $800
Rates are levied per $1,000 of full market value and shown here against the Roslyn school district. This figure does not include special districts (fire, water, library, sanitation, ambulance); STAR, veterans, senior and other exemptions; the Village of Roslyn levies its own tax on top of this, and so do the separately incorporated villages that share the Roslyn name — Roslyn Estates, Roslyn Harbor and East Hills among them — so this figure understates most parcels in the area rather than 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 Roslyn, the FEMA-mapped area in a high-risk zone is
0.6%
of mapped area, meaning Zone A or V, where a federally backed mortgage requires flood insurance
- Zone X
- 99.4%
- Zone VE
- 0.5%
- Zone AE
- 0.1%
- Zone A
- 0%
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 Roslyn — 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
Roslyn is served by the
Roslyn Union Free School District
- Enrollment
- 3,309
- Schools
- 5
- 4-Year Graduation
- 96%
The Roslyn district takes in Roslyn Estates, Roslyn Harbor, Roslyn Heights and East Hills as well as the village itself — several of which are separate postal names — so the district and the address rarely match exactly.
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)
Roslyn, as the Census Bureau measures it
| Figure | Roslyn | Nassau County |
|---|---|---|
| Median home value | $623,800 | $658,700 |
| Median gross rent | $2,172 | $2,195 |
| Median year built | 1956 | 1955 |
| Housing units | 1,438 | 477,860 |
| Owner-occupied | 60% | 82% |
| Median rooms | 4.6 | 6.6 |
| Median household income | $123,725 | $143,408 |
| Workers commuting | 1,025 | 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 Roslyn village, New York carries considerably more.
US Census Bureau · American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates · Roslyn village, New York and Nassau County, New York
Getting to Roslyn
- LIRR
- Roslyn station is on the Port Washington Branch, with Penn Station about forty minutes away and Grand Central a similar time, a one-seat ride with no change at Jamaica, which is the branch’s standing advantage over the Hempstead and Oyster Bay lines. The station sits above the village center rather than in it, so most households drive or are dropped.
- By Car
- The Long Island Expressway and Northern State are both close, and Midtown is roughly forty-five minutes off-peak. Traffic through the village itself is the local constraint: the ravine gives Main Street only one practical route in and out, and it backs up predictably.
Watch what your home is worth
Once a month we send where your home in Roslyn 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 Roslyn
Anthony Clemenza leads Park & Palm's representation in Roslyn, 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.
