A $44,000 Income Gap Runs Through Yonkers

Median household income in northeast Yonkers is nearly $109,000. In downtown and southwest Yonkers, it's under $65,000. Here's how the city's ZIP codes compare.

Yonkers is one city, but its neighborhoods live on very different budgets. According to the Census Bureau’s latest five-year survey, the typical household in ZIP code 10710 earns $108,845 a year, while the typical household in 10701 earns $64,776. That’s a gap of more than $44,000, and it splits the city roughly east and west.

Median Household Income by Yonkers ZIP Code

2020–2024 average, in 2024 dollars

East side, west side

The two highest-earning ZIP codes, 10710 in the northeast and 10704 in the southeast, both have median incomes above $106,000. The two lowest, 10701 and 10705, cover downtown and the southwest along the Hudson, and both are under $68,000. Northwest Yonkers (10703) sits in the middle at about $90,000.

For comparison, the citywide median is $83,549, and Westchester County’s is $118,976. Even Yonkers’ top-earning ZIP code is below the county median.

$83,549Yonkers median household income

$118,976Westchester County median

1.7×How much more 10710 earns than 10701

70,676People in 10701, the most of any Yonkers ZIP

The biggest ZIP code is also the lowest-earning

ZIP code 10701 isn’t just the lowest-earning part of the city. It’s also by far the most populous, with more than 70,000 residents, nearly twice as many as any other Yonkers ZIP code. What happens in 10701 shapes the citywide numbers more than anywhere else.

Where Yonkers Lives

Population by ZIP code, 2020–2024 average

Incomes in 10701 are rising

The gap is real, but it isn’t standing still. Median household income in 10701 has climbed from about $42,000 in the 2011 survey to nearly $65,000 in the latest one, with most of the gain since 2019. These figures are not adjusted for inflation, so part of the increase reflects rising prices rather than more buying power.

Median Household Income in ZIP Code 10701

Each point is a 5-year Census survey, labeled by its final year

About this data

These are five-year estimates from the American Community Survey, meaning each figure blends survey responses from 2020 through 2024. ZIP-code estimates come from smaller samples than citywide ones, so each carries a margin of error of several thousand dollars. The broad pattern — higher incomes east, lower incomes west — is well beyond that margin.