Long Island • New York
Wantagh
Real Estate. The Gateway to Jones Beach
Homes in Wantagh sold at a median of
$822,500
across 214 closed sales in the twelve months to July 2026, up 7.8% on a year earlier.
Measured separately, Wantagh (School District) reads $867,500 across 114 closed sales in the twelve months to July 2026, up 6.4% on a year earlier.
From $399,000 in January 2013 to $822,500 in July 2026. The dashed line is Wantagh (School District).
| Year | Wantagh |
|---|---|
| 2013 | $399,000 |
| 2014 | $420,500 |
| 2015 | $415,000 |
| 2016 | $455,000 |
| 2017 | $470,000 |
| 2018 | $509,500 |
| 2019 | $530,000 |
| 2020 | $550,000 |
| 2021 | $620,000 |
| 2022 | $667,500 |
| 2023 | $675,000 |
| 2024 | $750,000 |
| 2025 | $790,000 |
| 2026 | $822,500 |
As of July 2026 · Rolling 12 months, single family · Source: OneKey® MLS
- Days on Market
- 19median, listing to contract
- Months Supply
- 2.2inventory at the current pace
- Of Original List
- 102.0%median share of the first asking price
- Price / sq ft
- $470median, finished space
10 of the 214 homes sold in the twelve months to July 2026 fell in the top band, $1,500,000 or More, at a median of $1,662,500 and $467 per square foot.
- $1,500,000 or More10$467 per square foot · 36 median days to contract
- $1,000,000 to $1,499,99926$458 per square foot · 21 median days to contract
- $750,000 to $999,999119$466 per square foot · 17 median days to contract
- $749,999 or Less59$506 per square foot · 19 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 | 10 | 4.7% | $1,662,500 | $467 | 36 | 4.2 | 97.2% |
| $1,000,000 to $1,499,999 | 26 | 12.1% | $1,152,500 | $458 | 21 | 3.2 | 96.4% |
| $750,000 to $999,999 | 119 | 55.6% | $837,000 | $466 | 17 | 2.0 | 103.0% |
| $749,999 or Less | 59 | 27.6% | $715,000 | $506 | 19 | 1.2 | 103.0% |
As of July 2026 · Rolling 12 months, single family · Source: OneKey® MLS
About Wantagh
Wantagh was chartered as Jerusalem in 1666 and renamed in the nineteenth century for a Merokee sachem; it is known today as the gateway to Jones Beach, fifteen minutes down the parkway Robert Moses built for that exact purpose. The addresses that matter are in Mandalay, where canal streets open onto the Jones Beach Channel, and along the marina at Wantagh Park. Inland, the D section and Wantagh Woods hold the larger lots and the quieter blocks. The Babylon Branch reaches Penn Station in about forty-five minutes. Few places on Long Island put the ocean, the bay, and the train within this short a radius.
Finding a residence in Wantagh
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What Sells in Wantagh
Once a month we send the closed sales in Wantagh, 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 Wantagh home assessed at $1,000,000 carries
$24,390
a year, an effective rate of 2.44% of market value
- School
- $19,530
- County
- $3,040
- Town
- $1,820
Rates are levied per $1,000 of full market value and shown here against the Wantagh 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 Wantagh, the FEMA-mapped area in a high-risk zone is
4.8%
of mapped area, meaning Zone A or V, where a federally backed mortgage requires flood insurance
- Zone X
- 95.2%
- Zone AE
- 4.3%
- Zone VE
- 0.4%
- 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 Wantagh — 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
Wantagh is served by the
Wantagh Union Free School District
- Enrollment
- 2,731
- Schools
- 5
- 4-Year Graduation
- 98%
Small stretches along the northern and eastern edges may border the Levittown or Bellmore-Merrick catchments rather than Wantagh UFSD.
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)
Wantagh, as the Census Bureau measures it
| Figure | Wantagh | Nassau County |
|---|---|---|
| Median home value | $665,700 | $658,700 |
| Median gross rent | $2,191 | $2,195 |
| Median year built | 1957 | 1955 |
| Housing units | 5,970 | 477,860 |
| Owner-occupied | 96% | 82% |
| Median rooms | 7.0 | 6.6 |
| Median household income | $174,773 | $143,408 |
| Workers commuting | 7,251 | 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 Wantagh CDP, New York carries considerably more.
US Census Bureau · American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates · Wantagh CDP, New York and Nassau County, New York
Getting to Wantagh
- LIRR
- Babylon Branch from Wantagh: about 44 to 50 minutes to Penn Station with no transfer, roughly every twenty minutes at peak.
- By Car
- Wantagh and Southern State Parkways toward Midtown, about thirty miles: typically 50 to 65 minutes off-peak and 75 to 90 or more at rush hour.
Watch what your home is worth
Once a month we send where your home in Wantagh 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 Wantagh
Anthony Clemenza leads Park & Palm's representation in Wantagh, 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.
