![]() ![]() ![]() The town now has more than 200,000 residents, making it as populous as Yonkers, N.Y., or Salt Lake City, and almost all of them live in single-family homes. Huntington, like other suburban towns, enacted a zoning code in the early 20th century to keep out lower-income families. As the nation’s suburban fabric has diversified, Long Island has stayed mostly the same. ![]() Suffolk and Nassau rank second and third.Ĭommon features of the suburban landscape, like mixed-use town centers, subdivisions of attached town homes and those ubiquitous apartment blocks that look like chain hotels - which are all called something like the Avalon at Village Park - are strikingly rare on Long Island. Of the 100 most populous counties in the United States, many of which are suburban, only one, Fort Bend County, Texas, outside Houston, has a larger share of single-family housing. Long Island is unusual not merely by New York standards. In Fairfield County, Conn., the single-family share is 57 percent. In Bergen County, N.J., across the Hudson River from New York, that share is 52 percent. By comparison, in Westchester County, north of the city, single-family homes make up only 44 percent of the housing. That is a higher share than in any of the other 30 counties in the greater New York metropolitan area, save for the sparsely populated Pike County in eastern Pennsylvania. In Suffolk County, free-standing single-family homes account for more than 81 percent of the housing stock. ![]()
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