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Brightwaters village, New York: commercial real estate data.
Brightwaters village is a Census village of 3,179 people across 0.97 square miles of land, in Suffolk County. Median household income is $218,000, 96.4 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 5 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $2.6 m.
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Brightwaters
What Brightwaters is
- Census place typevillage
- Land area0.97 sq mi
- Water area0.02 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land3,292
- County holding the largest share of its areaSuffolk County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How many people live in Brightwaters
- Population3,179
- Median age41.8
- Population under 18858
- Share under 1827.0 percent
- Population 65 and over526
- Share 65 and over16.5 percent
- Households1,054
- Family households880
- Share of households that are families83.5 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Income and work in Brightwaters
- Median household income$218,000
- Per capita income$80,489
- Civilian labor force1,632
- Employed1,561
- Unemployed71 plus or minus 45
- Unemployment rate4.4 percent plus or minus 2.7
- Adults 25 and over2,139
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher99.2 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher62.6 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree32.7 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Brightwaters
- Housing units1,054
- Occupied units1,054
- Vacant units0
- Vacancy rate0.0 percent
- Owner occupied1,016
- Renter occupied38 plus or minus 29
- Ownership rate96.4 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$768,600
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,728
- Annual rent as a share of median income9.5 percent
- Single family units1,025
- Share single family97.2 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more29 plus or minus 30
- Share in buildings of two or more2.8 percent plus or minus 2.8
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1945
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Brightwaters gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute1,236
- Commuting under 15 minutes287 plus or minus 84
- Share commuting under 15 minutes23.2 percent plus or minus 6.4
- Commuting 30 minutes or more592
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more47.9 percent
- Drove alone65.4 percent
- Carpooled2.2 percent plus or minus 1.8
- Public transport8.6 percent plus or minus 3.4
- Walked2.3 percent plus or minus 1.9
- Worked from home19.9 percent plus or minus 6.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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SBA loans in Brightwaters (7(a))
- Approvals5
- Gross approval$2,560,000
- Average approval$512,000
- Median approval$100,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$2,140,000
- Largest approval$2,140,000
- Jobs supported30
- Jobs per approval6.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more20.0 percent
- Share to franchises20.0 percent
- Distinct lenders4
- Distinct industries by NAICS5
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
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Flood risk in Brightwaters
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- Best Community Rating System classClass 10
- NFIP community number361342
- Currently effective map date09/25/09
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
Suffolk County, not Brightwaters
Suffolk County context, not Brightwaters figures
These are Suffolk County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Brightwaters measurements.
- Establishments in Suffolk County50,748
- Employment at those establishments, Suffolk County592,580
- Covered employment, Suffolk County679,594
- Average annual pay, Suffolk County$79,121
- Average weekly wage, Suffolk County$1,522
- Housing units permitted, Suffolk County1,407
- Of those, single family, Suffolk County1,137
- County product, 2024, Suffolk County$139,014,125,000
- County product change over the prior year, Suffolk County5.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Suffolk County$144,254
Every figure in this section is published for Suffolk County as a whole and is not a measurement of Brightwaters. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Brightwaters questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Brightwaters, New York?
3,179, in 1,054 households. Brightwaters village covers 0.97 square miles of land, which is 3,292 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Brightwaters in?
Suffolk County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Brightwaters?
$218,000. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $768,600. Median gross rent is $1,728 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Brightwaters businesses?
5 7(a) approvals totalling $2.6 m, across 4 lenders, median approval $100,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Brightwaters, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Brightwaters borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Brightwaters. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Is Brightwaters in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Brightwaters appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 361342, carrying Community Rating System class 10, which is a premium discount for exceeding the programme minimum. Whether a specific parcel sits in a mapped special flood hazard area is an address level question the platform answers.
Are the county figures on this page Brightwaters figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Suffolk County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Brightwaters.
Is zoning published for Brightwaters?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.