Long Island by the Numbers

Pick your races and select an election district to see how much of the vote each candidate received.

See weekly water quality measures at 29 Long Island bays, harbors, rivers and inlets.

LI's unemployment rate for May was 3.2 percent, down 0.1 percentage points from a year ago.

Long Island's top 50 publicly traded companies collectively made $36.6 billion in sales in 2018.

212 top executives at LI's top publicly traded companies were paid more than $280.7M last year.

See what grades inspectors gave to the places where you shop for food.

Long Island gained 3,400 jobs in May 2019 compared with May 2018, a 0.2 percent increase, according to data from the state Labor Department.

LI's Hispanic population grew by 18.5 percent between July 2010 and July 2018, according to Census estimates.

Search government data to find out how Long Island hospitals performed in various categories.

In what has become known as the homework gap, 6.27% of U.S. students do not have internet access at home, according to federal data. NY is slightly better than average.

At least 1,292 properties on Long Island were exempt from property taxes in 2017 because they were owned by clergy.

In 2018, the 15 towns and cities on Long Island paid employees a total of more than $745 million.

Minorities account for 45% of public school students but a little more than 8% of the teaching staff, a study found.

Twenty-six of the cases have resulted in conviction for at least one suspect and 21 cases have led to charges against one or more.

Brookhaven Town had the biggest decrease in population among Long Island towns and cities in 2018, 1,057 or 0.22 percent, following last year's loss of 591.

School district residents go to the polls on May 21, 2019, to vote on budgets and members of their local boards for the coming school year. Here are the details on the ballots in 124 districts. This database was posted on May 13, 2019.

Long Island's unemployment rate for April 2019 was 3.0 percent, down 0.6 percentage points from a year ago.

On-time scores have improved on all but two LIRR branches compared to last year.

Long Island gained 6,500 jobs in April 2019 compared a year ago, a 0.5 percent increase led by the education and health services sector.

See nearly 39,000 seniors of 2019 at 145 LI private and public schools.

The median price of a home sold in Suffolk was up 5.6% from the year before to $380,000. In Nassau, the median price rose 3.1% to $505,000.