{"id":6428,"date":"2023-07-28T13:07:38","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T13:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/?p=6428"},"modified":"2026-08-08T22:53:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T22:53:16","slug":"richmond-county-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/richmond-county-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Richmond County, New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richmond County is a county in New York, United States, coextensive with Staten Island, New<br \/>\nYork City&rsquo;s southernmost borough, across the harbor from Manhattan and Brooklyn. It had a<br \/>\npopulation of 495,747 at the 2020 census and covers 151.5 km2 (58.48 square miles) of land<br \/>\ncentred near 40\u00b034\u2032N 74\u00b009\u2032W, with an additional 114 km2 of water &mdash; more water than any<br \/>\nother NYC borough.<\/p>\n<p>St. George is the county seat, home to Staten Island Borough Hall, the Richmond County<br \/>\nCourthouse and the St. George Ferry Terminal; its postal code is 10301. Because Richmond County<br \/>\nand the borough of Staten Island are the same jurisdiction, the county has no separate cities or<br \/>\nincorporated towns of its own &mdash; instead it is divided into dozens of named neighborhoods<br \/>\nacross three New York City community districts, and it runs on Eastern Time. Its FIPS code is<br \/>\n36085.<\/p>\n<h2>Neighborhoods in Richmond County<\/h2>\n<p>Richmond County is a consolidated city-county: Staten Island borough and Richmond County<br \/>\nshare one government and one set of boundaries, so there is no separate incorporated place list<br \/>\nthe way most other counties in this directory have. The table below lists the borough&rsquo;s<br \/>\nbest-known neighborhoods &mdash; informal, historically rooted districts rather than Census<br \/>\nBureau-defined places &mdash; grouped by shore.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tv-table-scroll\">\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Neighborhood<\/th>\n<th>Type<\/th>\n<th>Shore<\/th>\n<th>ZIP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>St. George<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood &middot; seat<\/td>\n<td>North<\/td>\n<td>10301<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Tompkinsville<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood<\/td>\n<td>North<\/td>\n<td>10301<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Stapleton<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood<\/td>\n<td>North<\/td>\n<td>10304<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Clifton<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood<\/td>\n<td>North<\/td>\n<td>10304<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Rosebank<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood<\/td>\n<td>North<\/td>\n<td>10305<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>New Brighton<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood<\/td>\n<td>North<\/td>\n<td>10301<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>West New Brighton<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood<\/td>\n<td>North<\/td>\n<td>10310<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Port Richmond<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood<\/td>\n<td>North<\/td>\n<td>10302<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Mariners Harbor<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood<\/td>\n<td>North<\/td>\n<td>10303<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Westerleigh<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood<\/td>\n<td>North<\/td>\n<td>10314<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Grymes Hill<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood<\/td>\n<td>North<\/td>\n<td>10301<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Silver Lake<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood<\/td>\n<td>North<\/td>\n<td>10301<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>New Dorp<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood<\/td>\n<td>Mid-Island<\/td>\n<td>10306<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Todt Hill<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood<\/td>\n<td>Mid-Island<\/td>\n<td>10304<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Richmondtown<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood<\/td>\n<td>Mid-Island<\/td>\n<td>10306<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>New Springville<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood<\/td>\n<td>Mid-Island<\/td>\n<td>10314<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Bulls Head<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood<\/td>\n<td>Mid-Island<\/td>\n<td>10314<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Travis<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood<\/td>\n<td>Mid-Island<\/td>\n<td>10314<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>South Beach<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood<\/td>\n<td>Mid-Island<\/td>\n<td>10305<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Midland Beach<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood<\/td>\n<td>Mid-Island<\/td>\n<td>10306<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Oakwood<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood<\/td>\n<td>Mid-Island<\/td>\n<td>10306<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Grasmere<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood<\/td>\n<td>Mid-Island<\/td>\n<td>10305<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dongan Hills<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood<\/td>\n<td>Mid-Island<\/td>\n<td>10305<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Grant City<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood<\/td>\n<td>Mid-Island<\/td>\n<td>10306<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Great Kills<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood<\/td>\n<td>South<\/td>\n<td>10308<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Eltingville<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood<\/td>\n<td>South<\/td>\n<td>10312<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Annadale<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood<\/td>\n<td>South<\/td>\n<td>10312<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Huguenot<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood<\/td>\n<td>South<\/td>\n<td>10312<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Prince&rsquo;s Bay<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood<\/td>\n<td>South<\/td>\n<td>10309<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Pleasant Plains<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood<\/td>\n<td>South<\/td>\n<td>10309<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Charleston<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood<\/td>\n<td>South<\/td>\n<td>10309<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Rossville<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood<\/td>\n<td>South<\/td>\n<td>10309<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Woodrow<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood<\/td>\n<td>South<\/td>\n<td>10309<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Tottenville<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood<\/td>\n<td>South<\/td>\n<td>10307<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Bay Terrace<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood<\/td>\n<td>South<\/td>\n<td>10306<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Richmond Valley<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood<\/td>\n<td>South<\/td>\n<td>10309<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Arden Heights<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood<\/td>\n<td>South<\/td>\n<td>10312<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Greenridge<\/td>\n<td>Neighborhood<\/td>\n<td>South<\/td>\n<td>10312<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>These 37 are the shore-grouped neighborhoods with the widest name recognition; Staten Island<br \/>\nhas dozens more small named districts (Arrochar, Concord, Emerson Hill, Shore Acres, Ward Hill,<br \/>\nLivingston and others) that overlap the boundaries above and are not separately listed here.<br \/>\nFresh Kills, once the site of the world&rsquo;s largest landfill, is not a residential<br \/>\nneighborhood &mdash; it is being redeveloped as parkland &mdash; so it is omitted from the<br \/>\ntable.<\/p>\n<h2>ZIP Codes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>10301 &mdash; St. George, New Brighton, Grymes Hill, Silver Lake (also serves 10341, a<br \/>\nSt. George PO box ZIP)<\/li>\n<li>10302 &mdash; Port Richmond<\/li>\n<li>10303 &mdash; Mariners Harbor<\/li>\n<li>10304 &mdash; Stapleton, Clifton, Todt Hill<\/li>\n<li>10305 &mdash; Rosebank, South Beach, Grasmere, Dongan Hills<\/li>\n<li>10306 &mdash; New Dorp, Midland Beach, Oakwood, Grant City, Bay Terrace<\/li>\n<li>10307 &mdash; Tottenville<\/li>\n<li>10308 &mdash; Great Kills<\/li>\n<li>10309 &mdash; Rossville, Charleston, Richmond Valley, Pleasant Plains, Prince&rsquo;s Bay<\/li>\n<li>10310 &mdash; West New Brighton<\/li>\n<li>10312 &mdash; Eltingville, Annadale, Huguenot, Arden Heights, Greenridge<\/li>\n<li>10314 &mdash; New Springville, Bulls Head, Travis, Westerleigh<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Every named neighborhood on Staten Island falls inside one of these twelve ZIPs, all under<br \/>\nthe 103 prefix &mdash; the borough is the only part of New York City with its own dedicated ZIP<br \/>\nrange.<\/p>\n<h2>Geography<\/h2>\n<p>Richmond County occupies the whole of Staten Island, separated from the rest of New York<br \/>\nCity and from New Jersey entirely by water. Of its 265.5 km2 total area, 151.5 km2 is land and<br \/>\nabout 114 km2 is water &mdash; the highest water share of any county in the New York City<br \/>\narea. Todt Hill, in the mid-island Staten Island Greenbelt, rises to about 124 metres, the<br \/>\nhighest natural point on the Eastern Seaboard south of Maine. The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge<br \/>\nlinks the North Shore to Brooklyn across the Narrows; the Outerbridge Crossing, Goethals Bridge<br \/>\nand Bayonne Bridge cross the Arthur Kill and Kill Van Kull to New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Richmond County has no land border with any other county. Across the harbor to the northeast<br \/>\nsit <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/kings-county-new-york\/\">Kings County<\/a> (Brooklyn)<br \/>\nand <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/new-york-county\/\">New York County<\/a> (Manhattan);<br \/>\nacross the Arthur Kill and Kill Van Kull to the west and north lie Hudson, Union and Middlesex<br \/>\ncounties in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<h2>Demographics<\/h2>\n<p>Richmond County had a population of 495,747 at the 2020 census, New York City&rsquo;s<br \/>\nsmallest borough population but its lowest density &mdash; roughly 8,618 people per square mile<br \/>\nof land, far below Manhattan or Brooklyn. St. George and the North Shore neighborhoods hold the<br \/>\ndensest, most urban settlement; the South Shore is largely low-rise, single-family housing.<br \/>\nMedian household income runs $76,244, above New York&rsquo;s statewide figure of $82,095 (2023 ACS).<br \/>\nStaten Island has the highest owner-occupancy rate of any NYC borough, at about 69.5 percent,<br \/>\nand roughly 22 percent of residents are foreign-born.<\/p>\n<h2>Economy &amp; Local Life<\/h2>\n<p>Health care, retail and government employ the largest shares of Richmond County workers.<br \/>\nStaten Island University Hospital, with campuses in Ocean Breeze and Prince&rsquo;s Bay, and<br \/>\nRichmond University Medical Center in West Brighton are the borough&rsquo;s largest private<br \/>\nemployers. Staten Island Mall in New Springville is the borough&rsquo;s largest retail<br \/>\ncenter. City government, including the borough president&rsquo;s office, Richmond County<br \/>\ncourts and NYPD&rsquo;s 120th through 123rd Precincts, accounts for a significant share of local<br \/>\njobs. The former Fresh Kills Landfill, closed in 2001, is being converted into Freshkills Park,<br \/>\nplanned to become New York City&rsquo;s second-largest public park. The borough&rsquo;s biggest<br \/>\nannual event is the Great Kills Yacht Club&rsquo;s summer boating season and the Richmond County<br \/>\nFair at Historic Richmond Town each Labor Day weekend.<\/p>\n<h2>History<\/h2>\n<p>New York&rsquo;s colonial assembly organized Richmond County in 1683 as one of the state&rsquo;s<br \/>\noriginal twelve counties. Its name comes from the Staaten Generaal, the Dutch parliament, by way<br \/>\nof the island&rsquo;s Dutch-era name Staaten Eylandt. On 1 January 1898, Staten Island joined<br \/>\nBrooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx to form the consolidated City of Greater New York,<br \/>\nbecoming the smallest of the five boroughs by population ever since. The borough voted to<br \/>\nsecede from New York City in a non-binding 1993 referendum, a step that required state<br \/>\nlegislative approval that never came. From 1947 to 2001, the Fresh Kills Landfill on the West<br \/>\nShore operated as the largest landfill in the world before its closure and ongoing conversion<br \/>\ninto parkland.<\/p>\n<h2>Getting There<\/h2>\n<p>No interstate other than I-278, the Staten Island Expressway, crosses the county; it links<br \/>\nthe Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge to the Goethals Bridge. The West Shore Expressway (NY 440)<br \/>\nruns the length of the South Shore, and Hylan Boulevard and Richmond Avenue are the borough&rsquo;s<br \/>\nmain surface arterials.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lower Manhattan &mdash; about 5 miles north, via the Staten Island Ferry<\/li>\n<li>Brooklyn (downtown) &mdash; about 9 miles northeast, via the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge<\/li>\n<li>Elizabeth, New Jersey &mdash; about 6 miles west, via the Goethals Bridge<\/li>\n<li>Newark, New Jersey &mdash; about 12 miles northwest<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The free Staten Island Ferry runs between St. George and Lower Manhattan around the clock,<br \/>\ncarrying more than 20,000 riders on an average weekday. Staten Island Railway, a rapid<br \/>\ntransit line with no fare-controlled connection to the rest of the subway system, runs the<br \/>\nlength of the borough from St. George to Tottenville. Newark Liberty International Airport,<br \/>\nacross the Goethals Bridge in New Jersey, is the nearest major commercial airport.<\/p>\n<h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Where is Richmond County located?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt is coextensive with Staten Island, New York City&rsquo;s southernmost borough, separated<br \/>\nfrom Brooklyn and Manhattan by New York Harbor and from New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and Kill<br \/>\nVan Kull.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the population of Richmond County?<\/strong><br \/>\n495,747 at the 2020 census, the smallest of New York City&rsquo;s five boroughs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How big is Richmond County?<\/strong><br \/>\n151.5 km2 (58.48 square miles) of land and about 114 km2 of water, for 265.5 km2 total.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the county seat of Richmond County?<\/strong><br \/>\nSt. George, home to Staten Island Borough Hall and the Richmond County Courthouse, is the<br \/>\ncounty seat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is Richmond County the same as Staten Island?<\/strong><br \/>\nYes. Richmond County and the borough of Staten Island share identical boundaries and one city<br \/>\ngovernment, a consolidated city-county arrangement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What ZIP codes does Richmond County use?<\/strong><br \/>\nTwelve ZIPs, all beginning with 103, from 10301 in St. George to 10314 in New Springville and<br \/>\n10307 in Tottenville.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is Richmond County known for?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe free Staten Island Ferry, the Staten Island Greenbelt, and the former Fresh Kills Landfill,<br \/>\nnow being rebuilt as Freshkills Park.<\/p>\n<p>More counties in this state: <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/category\/new-york\/\">Towns and villages in New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richmond County is a county in New York, United States, coextensive with Staten Island, New York City&rsquo;s southernmost borough, across the harbor from Manhattan and Brooklyn. It had a population of 495,747 at the 2020 census and covers 151.5 km2 (58.48 square miles) of land centred near 40\u00b034\u2032N 74\u00b009\u2032W, with an additional 114 km2 of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"Towns & Villages in Richmond County, New York","_seopress_titles_desc":"Richmond County is Staten Island: 37 neighborhoods, ZIP codes, geography, history and the Staten Island Ferry, all in one guide.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-6428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-new-york","tag-towns-and-cities","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9588,"href":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428\/revisions\/9588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}