Jackson Heights & East Elmhurst
Community district in New York City
Borough: Queens
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About Queens
The largest borough by area, east of Brooklyn on Long Island, home to both of the city’s airports.
Names you’ll hear here
- Jackson Heights
Living here
- Housing
- Middle housing cost. Median home $640K · renters pay $1,890/moSurvey estimates for 2020–2024, not current prices, for the whole community district. Rent is what renting households pay, utilities included, counting rent-stabilized and subsidized homes, so it sits well below what a new lease costs. Use them to compare districts, not to budget.
- To Penn Station
- 45–60 min. About 48 min by transit, weekday morning
- Getting to work
- Mixed. 29% drive · 58% transit · 10% walk or bike
- Households
- Mostly renters. 63% rent
- Tree canopy
- Under 10%. 6% of the land is under treesSatellite land cover, 2021 (ESA WorldCover, 10 m).
- Home types
- Detached 7% · Attached 10% · 2–19 units 43% · 20+ units 40%
- Built
- 1939 or earlier 32% · 1940–79 58% · 1980–99 5% · 2000 or later 5%
- Ages
- Under 15 18% · 15–24 11% · 25–44 30% · 45–64 26% · 65+ 15%
- Language at home
- Spanish 57% · English only 22% · Other Indo-European (e.g. Hindi, Urdu) 10%English only, or the language besides English that each person 5 or older speaks at home. For tracts the Census groups some languages: Bengali, Hindi and Urdu are among “other Indo-European”.
- Recent immigrants
- 18% born abroad, came to the US 2010 or laterShare of residents, from the 2020–2024 survey.
American Community Survey 2020–2024 and MTA schedules, Jackson Heights & East Elmhurst. Tiers compare the 59 community districts.