Home values, rents and more in Brightwaters, NY
September 2026 figures from Zillow and the U.S. Census Bureau · updated 2026-11-07
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How Brightwaters compares
The typical home in Brightwaters, NY is worth about $841,000, according to the Zillow Home Value Index for September 2026. Home values in Brightwaters are 15% above the typical value in the New York metro area ($731,000) and 2.3 times the U.S. typical value ($366,000).
Over the past year, home values in Brightwaters rose 9.7%, compared with +4.9% in the New York metro area and +1.2% nationally.
The median household income is $218,000, against $99,155 in the New York metro area and $80,734 in the U.S. (Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–24).
About 3,179 people live in Brightwaters (American Community Survey 2020–24).
Brightwaters has the 208th-highest typical home value of the 558 cities in the New York metro area and the 110th-highest of 728 in New York with Zillow figures.
Part of: Suffolk County, NY · New York metro area · New York
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Sources
Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), all homes, middle tier, smoothed and seasonally adjusted, September 2026. Rents: Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI), seasonally adjusted. Population: Census population estimates (July 2025) for states, metros and counties; ACS 2020–24 for cities and ZIP codes. Income: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020–24 5-year estimates. Boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundary files. Compiled by Home Economics.
"Typical" is Zillow's middle-tier value (homes between the 35th and 65th percentiles), not a median sale price. Changes are over the 12 months to September 2026.