What salary do you need to live in Kiryas Joel, NY?

What housing costs in Kiryas Joel

Renters in Kiryas Joel pay a median $1,759 a month for two bedrooms. Size matters: one bedroom is $1,338, three bedrooms $1,989, so going from the smallest to the largest of the three adds $7,812 a year.

The median value of owner-occupied homes in the metro is $393,600. That works out to 4.0× the local median household income of $98,233, a mid-range ratio.

Price levels matter beyond rent. The Bureau of Economic Analysis measures Kiryas Joel's overall prices at 109.4 on a scale where the nation is 100, which makes a $100,000 salary feel like about $91,389 would elsewhere.

The salary lines for a two-bedroom in Kiryas Joel

For two bedrooms, $317,000 is where Kiryas Joel turns Comfortable. Below that, $145,000 marks the start of Okay and $72,000 the start of Tight; under $72,000 the score reads Stretched. Rent at the Comfortable line is 7% of gross pay.

Royal is out of reach at any income here. The price-level part of the score is fixed by the metro's parity of 109.4, so even when rent and home prices become tiny next to income the total tops out at 84, short of the 85 the top band needs.

These lines come straight from the calculator's formula: the income is raised until the two-bedroom score crosses each cutoff, then rounded up to the next $1,000.

Four salaries, three home sizes in Kiryas Joel

At $75,000, a one-bedroom scores 31 (Tight), a two-bedroom 26 (Tight) and a three-bedroom 24 (Stretched). The $7,812 a year between the smallest and largest home is what moves the grade.

Comfortable is above every row of the table here. At $150,000 a two-bedroom still grades Okay, with rent taking 14% of income.

Kiryas Joel compared with every US metro

Out of 387 metros, Kiryas Joel has the 12th highest price parity and the 28th highest two-bedroom rent, which puts it among the priciest tenth on overall prices and in the top 10% on rent.

Its nearest neighbors on the rent list are Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA ($1,780) and Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA ($1,758).

Kiryas Joel in a New York context

How Kiryas Joel stacks up against its state: $1,759 for a two-bedroom against New York's $1,620, $393,600 for the median home against $423,800, and a price level of 109.4 against 107.9.

On statewide medians, a two-bedroom budget reaches Comfortable at $278,000 — below Kiryas Joel's $317,000 line.

The nearest matches in New York, judged on rent and price parity together, are New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ, Kingston, NY, and Ithaca, NY.

Kiryas Joel's median income on the scale

The median household in the metro earns $98,233 (ACS 2020-2024). Run through the calculator with two bedrooms, that scores 34, Tight. Put differently, Kiryas Joel's typical household is $218,767 below the $317,000 it takes to read Comfortable on two bedrooms. For New York as a whole, the median household income of $85,974 scores 32 against statewide rents. Since a household can have two or more earners, compare it with a combined income rather than one paycheck.

These are pre-tax estimates from public statistics, not financial advice.