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Syosset's Average Credit Score Is No. 3 On Long Island

How does your credit score stack up against the rest of the community?

If the average credit score of Syosset residents were a grade, it would be an A+.

According to a WalletHub analysis, Syosset is in the 99 percentile nationwide of the 2,572 communities surveyed.

The community has an average credit score of 763, the No. 38 highest credit score in the nation and No. 3 on Long Island.

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Garden City and Plainview are tied as the No. 25 highest credit score in the nation and No. 1 on Long Island.

The Villages, FL ranked as No. 1 in the United States with an average 807 credit score. Pittsford in Monroe County had the highest credit score average in New York with a No. 10 national ranking of 773.

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In order to identify the cities with the highest and lowest credit scores, WalletHub's analysts compared the average credit scores of residents in each of 2,572 U.S. "cities" as of October 2017, based on TransUnion data.

Here are the 16 Long Island communities with the highest credit scores:

  1. Plainview and Garden City (tie)— 767 (99 percentile)
  2. N/A
  3. Syosset— 763 (99 percentile)
  4. New Hyde Park— 760 (98 percentile)
  5. Commack— 758 (97 percentile)
  6. Melville— 756 (96 percentile)
  7. Great Neck— 756 (96 percentile)
  8. Dix Hills— 755 (96 percentile)
  9. Wantagh— 755 (96 percentile)
  10. Merrick— 754 (95 percentile)
  11. Port Washington— 752 (94 percentile)
  12. Massapequa Park— 751 (94 percentile)
  13. Seaford— 748 (92 percentile)
  14. East Northport— 747 (92 percentile)
  15. Smithtown— 746 (91 percentile)
  16. Floral Park— 745 (91 percentile)

See the full rankings here.

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