5 communities compared — 108 shuls, 6 kosher stores and restaurants, 38 day schools and 3 mikvaos on the map.
Rockland County, about 30 miles northwest of Manhattan, is home to one of the largest and fastest-growing Orthodox communities in the United States — the Monsey–Ramapo area, with well over 100 shuls and dozens of yeshivos. Monsey itself is the hub, with Route 59 and Central Avenue as its kosher commercial corridor.
Around it, each village has its own character: Spring Valley is the dense, Chassidish end where almost everything is within walking distance; Wesley Hills and New Hempstead offer larger homes on quieter streets; and Pomona is the newest, a small kehilla forming in the woods north of Monsey.
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| Monsey | 37 | 4 | 22 | 2 | $–$$$ | $864k | Moving guide → |
| Spring Valley, NY | 30 | 2 | 8 | 1 | $–$$ | $650k | Moving guide → |
| Wesley Hills, NY | 18 | · | 4 | · | $$–$$$ | $542k | Moving guide → |
| New Hempstead, NY | 12 | · | 4 | · | $$–$$$ | $650k | Moving guide → |
| Pomona, NY | 11 | · | · | · | $$–$$$ | $361k | Moving guide → |
One of the largest and fastest-growing Chassidic and Yeshivish communities in the US — Monsey and surrounding Ramapo Township have well over 100 shuls and dozens of yeshivos, with Route 59 and Central Avenue forming a kosher commercial corridor rivaling Brooklyn.
The dense, working end of the Monsey area — a village of shtieblach and Chassidishe kehillos where housing is the most affordable in Rockland and almost everything is within walking distance.
Monsey's leafy village neighbor — larger homes on larger lots along the Lime Kiln Road shul corridor, inside the Rockland Eruv, for families who wanted Monsey's infrastructure without Monsey's density.
A quiet residential village between Monsey and Pomona — larger homes, a cluster of Ashkenaz kehillos, and a noticeably more Modern and Yeshivish mix than the Chassidish villages to its south.
The newest of the Monsey-area spillover villages — a small, fast-forming kehilla in the woods north of Monsey, close enough to use everything Monsey has and far enough to feel like its own town.
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ShulMap maps 5 Orthodox communities in Rockland County: Monsey, Spring Valley, Wesley Hills, New Hempstead and Pomona. Together they have 108 shuls on the map, plus 6 kosher stores and restaurants, 38 day schools and 3 mikvaos. Each has its own page with a walkable shul map.
Monsey has the most on ShulMap, with 37 mapped, followed by Spring Valley (30) and Wesley Hills (18). Shul count is a rough guide to community size, not to fit — a smaller community with a daily minyan near housing you can afford may suit a family better than a bigger one.
By the US Census median home value for each community's ZIP (2020–2024), Pomona ($360,800) is the most affordable in Rockland County, followed by Wesley Hills ($542,000) and Spring Valley and New Hempstead ($649,700), and Monsey ($863,600) the most expensive. These are ZIP-wide figures as valued by owners — asking prices usually run higher, and each relocation guide says which sections cost what.
ShulMap has mikvaos mapped in Monsey and Spring Valley. Day schools are mapped in Monsey, Spring Valley, Wesley Hills and New Hempstead. A community without one on the map may still have one we have not added yet, and families commonly use institutions in a neighboring community.
It differs community by community, and ShulMap never infers one. Each community page carries its own eruv detail with the source and the date it was last checked. Always confirm with your local rav or the eruv hotline before carrying on Shabbos.
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