Dix Hills, New York

Template:More citations needed Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox settlement Dix Hills is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) located within the Town of Huntington in Suffolk County, on Long Island, in New York, United States. The population was 26,180 at the time of the 2020 census.

History

Settlers traded goods with the Indigenous Secatogue tribe for the land that became Dix Hills in 1699. The Secatogues lived in the northern portion of the region during the later half of that century. The land was known as Dick's Hills. By lore, the name traces to a local native named Dick Pechegan, likely of the Secatogues.<ref name="NYT If You're Thinking 1993" />Template:Refn Scholar William Wallace Tooker wrote that the addition of the English name "Dick" to the indigenous name "Pechegan" was a common practice.

Tooker wrote that Pechegan's wigwam and his planted fields became the hilly area's namesake, known as the shortened "Dix Hills" by 1911.<ref name="Tooker" /> The area was mostly used for farming until after World War II.<ref name="NYT If You're Thinking 1993" />

In 1941, a ranch house featured at the World of Tomorrow exhibit at the 1939 New York World's Fair was purchased by real estate developer J. Franklin Bradley, who at the time was creating a new housing development in Dix Hills.<ref name=":3">Template:Cite news</ref> Bradley relocated the house to this new development in the hamlet, where it was rebuilt to its original World's Fair specifications.<ref name=":3" />

In the 1950s, Dix Hills and its neighbors Wheatley Heights and Melville, along with the area known as Sweet Hollow, proposed to incorporate as a single village.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> This village – which would have been known as the Incorporated Village of Half Hollow Hills – would have had an area of roughly Template:Convert, with its boundaries essentially co-terminus with those of the Half Hollow Hills Central School District (C.S.D. No. 5).<ref name=":0" /> The plans were unsuccessful, and these areas would remain unincorporated.<ref name=":1">Template:Cite web</ref>

Proposals were revived around 2001, when Dix Hills, Melville, Wheatley Heights, and East Farmingdale (all within the school district) proposed incorporating as a single village.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> These plans also failed, and as of 2025, all of these community remain unincorporated hamlets.<ref name=":1" />

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP of Dix Hills has a total area of Template:Convert, all of it land.<ref name="Census 2010"/>

Dix Hills is located centrally on Long Island, on the southern edge of the Town of Huntington, bordering the Town of Babylon to its south.<ref name=":1" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

The Long Island Expressway passes almost straight through the middle of the hamlet.<ref name=":1" />

Demographics

As of the 2020 U.S. census,<ref name="Census 2020"/> there were 26,180 people, 7,765 households residing in Dix Hills. The population density was 1,662.3 per square mile. The racial makeup of Dix Hills was 74.7% White, 15.1% Asian, 6.1% are Hispanic or Latino of any race, 3.7% African American, 0.8% Native American, 0.0% Pacific Islander, and 4.8% from two or more races. Dix Hills, like many other towns on the North Shore of Long Island, has a large Jewish population, as well as a large number of residents of Asian origin. 25.6% of the population spoke a language other than English at home, mostly Chinese or Korean.

The median household income (in 2021 dollars) in Dix Hills was $184,580.<ref name="Census 2020"/> The per capita income for Dix Hills was $75,486. About 4.9% of the population was below the poverty line.<ref name="Census 2020"/>

Dix Hills had Long Island's highest number of electric vehicles on the road by ZIP Code as of 2023.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Education

Dix Hills is served by the Half Hollow Hills Central School District and the Commack School District.<ref name=":1" /> The Half Hollow Hills elementary schools are Otsego, Paumanok, Signal Hill, Sunquam, and Vanderbilt.<ref name=":1" />

Middle schools that serve the district are Candlewood Middle School and West Hollow Middle School.<ref name=":1" /> The high schools are Half Hollow Hills High School East and Half Hollow Hills High School West.<ref name=":1" /> Commack Middle School and Rolling Hills Elementary are both a part of the Commack School District and are located within Dix Hills.<ref name=":1" />

Five Towns College is also located within Dix Hills.<ref name=":1" />

Dix Hills is part of the Half Hollow Hills Community Library.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Emergency services

Dix Hills is served by the Dix Hills Fire Department, through three stations.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">Template:Cite web</ref> The Dix Hills Fire Department's headquarters (Company 2) is located on Deer Park Avenue, immediately north of the Northern State Parkway. Substation #1 (Company 3) is located on Deer Park Avenue, south of the Long Island Expressway.<ref name=":1" />

Substation #2 (Company 1) is located on Carll's Straight Path, about half of a mile south of the Long Island Expressway.<ref name=":1" /> The Dix Hills Fire Department consists of approximately 150 volunteer firefighters and emergency medical technicians who respond to over 2,500 calls for assistance each year – ranging from fires to motor vehicle accidents to medical and traumatic emergencies.<ref name=":2" />

Notable people

• Brian Bloom, actor<ref name=Bloom/>
• Bob Bourne, NHL player<ref name=Bourne/>
• Ernest P. Buffett, Businessman, father of congressman Howard Buffett, grandfather of billionaire investor Warren Buffett
• Gidone Busch, New York City Police Department shooting victim<ref>Sachs, Susan (September 2, 1999) "Man Shot By City Officers Was On A Troubled Quest", The New York Times</ref>
• John Coltrane, jazz saxophonist and composer (John Coltrane Home)<ref name=Coltrane/>
• Clark Gillies, NHL player<ref name=Gillies-NYT/><ref name="Gillies St. Joe's"/><ref name="Gillies NYS"/>
• Tobias Harris, NBA player<ref name="Harris"/>
• Steve Israel, former New York congressman<ref name="Israel residence"/>
• Mark LoMonaco of The Dudley Boyz, pro wrestler<ref name=LoMonaco/>
• Ralph Macchio of The Karate Kid, actor<ref name="Macchio mambo"/><ref name="Macchio roughening"/><ref name="Macchio showbiz"/>
• Kyle Merber, professional runner<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Cathy Moriarty, actress<ref name="Moriarty"/>
• Greg Mottola, writer-director of Superbad<ref name=Mottola/>
• Cameron Ocasio, actor<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Todd Phillips, writer-director of Old School and The Hangover<ref name="Phillips Due Date"/><ref name="Phillips Cure"/><ref name="Phillips Drunk with success"/>
• Samantha Prahalis, WNBA basketball player<ref name=Prahalis/>
• Michael Prywes, writer-director<ref name=Prywes/>
• Jenna Rose, entertainer<ref name=Rose/>
• Carmela Sbarro and Gennaro Sbarro, founders of Sbarros pizza chain
• Dee Snider, Twisted Sister frontman<ref name=Snider/>
• Ryan Star, singer-songwriter<ref name="Star Hear the new"/><ref name="Star Perform on Leno"/>
• Wesley Walker, NFL player<ref name=Walker/>
• Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Congresswoman, former chair of the Democratic National Convention, Hills East '84
• Chris Weidman, UFC fighter<ref name=Weidman/>
• Judd Winick, cartoonist<ref name=Winick/>
• Gary Wood (1942–1994), NFL quarterback
• Jon Bellion, singer-songwriter

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