Locust Valley, NY 11560

What ZIP Code 11560 Actually Covers

Three governments share the ZIP. The Town of Oyster Bay administers the hamlet directly, while the Villages of Lattingtown and Matinecock run their own local government on top of that layer. Bayville and Mill Neck belong to the same school district and the same “Locust Valley” social identity, but the U.S. Postal Service routes their mail through separate ZIP codes entirely.

The practical read for anyone matching an address to this ZIP: a “Locust Valley, NY 11560” address is the hamlet, Lattingtown, or Matinecock. A “Locust Valley”-branded address in 11709 or 11765 is actually Bayville or Mill Neck, and any zoning or permitting question for those two runs through their own village hall, not Oyster Bay’s.

Is Locust Valley a village or a hamlet?Neither in the incorporated sense: it’s an unincorporated hamlet inside the Town of Oyster Bay, so the town government sets its zoning and services rather than a separate village board.

Housing Market Snapshot

That 1.2% sits inside the range typical of Nassau County’s North Shore hamlets. It’s a town-and-school-district figure for the unincorporated hamlet specifically; a Matinecock or Lattingtown address adds a separate village tax line on top of it.

What’s the property tax rate in Locust Valley?Homes in the unincorporated hamlet paid a median of about $10,001 a year on mortgaged properties in 2023, close to 1.2% of assessed value. A village address in Matinecock or Lattingtown adds its own village tax beyond that.

Schools

Locust Valley Central School District serves the hamlet and both incorporated villages through one high school rather than separate buildings per village. No independently verifiable public-school rating source (a state assessment feed or GreatSchools-level dataset with visible methodology) turned up in research for this page; a letter-grade claim without that backing isn’t included here.

Who Lives Here

The 2020 census counted 3,571 residents in the hamlet, median age 41.9, with 54.6% of households classified as married-couple households. Per-capita income was estimated at $90,476 in 2022 by NeighborhoodScout, well above both state and national figures. The Census household data and the independent income estimate line up with each other rather than contradicting.

Getting to Manhattan

A transfer, typically at Jamaica, is required for every trip between Locust Valley and Penn Station; there’s no direct train on the Oyster Bay Branch. Door to door, that trip runs about 70 to 80 minutes. The MTA’s own fare chart, effective January 4, 2026, prices one-way LIRR tickets from $7.25 up to $33.00 at peak and $5.25 to $24.50 off-peak depending on zone; at roughly 29 highway miles from Manhattan, Locust Valley falls in the middle of that range rather than at either extreme.

How long is the train ride to Penn Station?About 70 to 80 minutes each way, with one required transfer.

History in Brief

The hamlet was Matinecock land before 1667, renamed Buckram by English colonists, then renamed again to Locust Valley in 1856 for the trees. The Long Island Rail Road reached the station in 1869, briefly making it the line’s terminus, and the Gold Coast estate era followed within a generation. One surviving marker from that older layer: the Matinecock Friends Meeting House, built in 1725 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, burned in 1985 and was rebuilt in 1986.

Comparing 11560 to Nearby ZIP Codes

Set against its two closest neighbors, 11560’s price gap is wide enough to matter for anyone comparison-shopping by ZIP: Glen Cove’s 11542 median home value sits at $659,300, and Bayville’s 11709 sits at $670,500.

11560 runs roughly $280,000 to $290,000 above both neighbors on median home value, a gap wide enough that a buyer comparing the three on price alone is comparing different market tiers, not variations within one.

Which ZIP codes border 11560?Glen Cove (11542) to the west, Bayville (11709) and Mill Neck (11765) to the north and east, and Oyster Bay (11771) further east along the same rail branch.