Long Island by the Numbers

Tax bills for more than 205,000 properties are projected to rise under Laura Curran’s plan, according to new county projections.

See how many students achieved passing grades on AP and IB exams in your school district.

Long Island's high school Class of 2019 had a graduation rate of 89.1%, according to state Education Department data.

Nearly 250,000 educators were paid more than $16.6 billion during the 2018-19 school year.

Radon has been detected at 96 of 1,804 of LI homes tested at or above the EPA's recommended safety levels, state data show.

An average of more than 18,000 cases of cancer per year occurred on LI from 2012 through 2016, according to the state Department of Health.

The median opt-out rate on LI in 2019 for both math and English Language Arts was 43.1 percent.

Fifty-one percent of LI students scored proficient or better in English, while 54.2 percent did in math.

Long Island public school students will start the 2019-20 school year on one of three different days in September.

Pick your races and select an election district to see how much of the vote each candidate received.

See weekly water quality measures at 29 Long Island bays, harbors, rivers and inlets.

LI's unemployment rate for May was 3.2 percent, down 0.1 percentage points from a year ago.

Long Island's top 50 publicly traded companies collectively made $36.6 billion in sales in 2018.

212 top executives at LI's top publicly traded companies were paid more than $280.7M last year.

See what grades inspectors gave to the places where you shop for food.

Long Island gained 3,400 jobs in May 2019 compared with May 2018, a 0.2 percent increase, according to data from the state Labor Department.

LI's Hispanic population grew by 18.5 percent between July 2010 and July 2018, according to Census estimates.

Search government data to find out how Long Island hospitals performed in various categories.

In what has become known as the homework gap, 6.27% of U.S. students do not have internet access at home, according to federal data. NY is slightly better than average.

At least 1,292 properties on Long Island were exempt from property taxes in 2017 because they were owned by clergy.

In 2018, the 15 towns and cities on Long Island paid employees a total of more than $745 million.