According to CareScout's 2025 Cost of Care Survey, the median cost of an assisted living community (private one-bedroom) in New York State is $225 per day, or about $7,110 per month and $85,320 per year. This is a statewide median - CareScout's published state-level data tables do not break out a separate Long Island or metro New York figure.
The detail behind the number
The $225-per-day figure comes from CareScout's, formerly Genworth's, annual Cost of Care Survey, based on data collected between July and November 2025 and published in early 2026, making it the most current, methodologically consistent benchmark available for New York State assisted living pricing. It's worth being clear about what this number does and doesn't represent: it's a state median for a private one-bedroom, meaning actual pricing at any specific Nassau or Suffolk community can run meaningfully higher or lower depending on unit size, level of care needed, and location. For comparison, the prior year's 2024 survey put the New York State median at $207 per day, an increase of roughly $18 per day, or about 8.7 percent, year over year, useful context for a family trying to budget forward rather than relying on a single point-in-time figure.
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