The Hamptons • New York
Westhampton Beach
Real Estate. The First Village East
Homes in Westhampton Beach sold at a median of
$2,635,000
across 66 closed sales in the twelve months to July 2026, up 17.0% on a year earlier.
Measured separately, Westhampton Beach (School District) reads $1,747,000 across 241 closed sales in the twelve months to July 2026, down 2.9% on a year earlier.
From $1,043,250 in January 2013 to $2,635,000 in July 2026. The dashed line is Westhampton Beach (School District).
| Year | Westhampton Beach |
|---|---|
| 2013 | $904,000 |
| 2014 | $1,168,750 |
| 2015 | $1,250,000 |
| 2016 | $1,160,000 |
| 2017 | $1,185,000 |
| 2018 | $967,500 |
| 2019 | $1,100,000 |
| 2020 | $1,825,000 |
| 2021 | $1,762,500 |
| 2022 | $2,462,500 |
| 2023 | $2,674,500 |
| 2024 | $2,050,000 |
| 2025 | $2,700,000 |
| 2026 | $2,635,000 |
As of July 2026 · Rolling 12 months, single family · Source: OneKey® MLS
- Days on Market
- 84median, listing to contract
- Months Supply
- 6.9inventory at the current pace
- Of Original List
- 94.3%median share of the first asking price
- Price / sq ft
- $802median, finished space
About Westhampton Beach
Westhampton Beach is the westernmost of the Hamptons villages and the one that most rewards arriving early. Main Street is a working village street rather than a seasonal stage set, with a theater, a bookshop, and restaurants that stay open past Labor Day, and behind it the land runs south across Moriches Bay to Dune Road, a narrow barrier strip carrying some of the most exposed and most valuable oceanfront on Long Island. The distinction between the two is the whole market: village houses on quiet lanes within walking distance of the shops, and beach houses on the dune with the Atlantic in front and the bay behind. Being the first village east makes it roughly forty minutes closer than East Hampton, which for a weekend household is the difference between leaving on Friday afternoon and leaving on Friday evening.
Finding a residence in Westhampton Beach
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What Sells in Westhampton Beach
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A Westhampton Beach home assessed at $1,000,000 carries
$6,352
a year, an effective rate of 0.64% of market value
- School
- $3,862
- County
- $1,690
- Town
- $800
Rates are levied per $1,000 of full market value and shown here against the Westhampton Beach school district. This figure does not include special districts (fire, water, library, sanitation, ambulance); STAR, veterans, senior and other exemptions; the Incorporated Village of Westhampton Beach levies its own tax on top of this, and every address in the village is inside it — so this figure understates every parcel there, though not the unincorporated parts of the district such as Remsenburg, Speonk and Quiogue. 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 Westhampton Beach, the FEMA-mapped area in a high-risk zone is
1.8%
of mapped area, meaning Zone A or V, where a federally backed mortgage requires flood insurance
- Zone X
- 96.7%
- Zone VE
- 1.2%
- Zone AE
- 0.5%
Moderate to minimal
High risk (A/V)
High risk (A/V)
This figure does not represent the share of homes or parcels at risk in Westhampton Beach — 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
Westhampton Beach is served by the
Westhampton Beach Union Free School District
- Enrollment
- 1,726
- Schools
- 3
- 4-Year Graduation
- 89%
The Westhampton Beach district extends well beyond the village to take in Remsenburg, Speonk and Quiogue, and parts of the wider Westhampton area are zoned to Eastport-South Manor or Quogue instead.
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)
Westhampton Beach, as the Census Bureau measures it
| Figure | Westhampton Beach | Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|
| Median home value | $1,102,000 | $539,500 |
| Median gross rent | $2,117 | $2,190 |
| Median year built | 1978 | 1970 |
| Housing units | 2,433 | 579,790 |
| Owner-occupied | 86% | 82% |
| Median rooms | 6.7 | 6.4 |
| Median household income | $137,888 | $128,329 |
| Workers commuting | 856 | 686,108 |
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 Westhampton Beach village, New York carries considerably more.
US Census Bureau · American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates · Westhampton Beach village, New York and Suffolk County, New York
Getting to Westhampton Beach
- LIRR
- Westhampton is on the Montauk Branch, and the honest position is that the train is a fallback rather than a commute: roughly two and a half hours to Penn Station with a change, and a sparse timetable outside the summer. The Hampton Jitney and the seasonal ferry services carry more of this traffic than the railway does.
- By Car
- Sunrise Highway runs to the village, and being the first Hamptons village east is the practical advantage: roughly ninety minutes to Midtown off-peak, and materially better than East Hampton on a summer Friday because the worst of the Route 27 bottleneck lies further east. Gabreski Airport is minutes away.
Watch what your home is worth
Once a month we send where your home in Westhampton Beach 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.
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Local expertise, brought to Westhampton Beach
Anthony Clemenza leads Park & Palm's representation in Westhampton Beach, 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.
