Realty Census Real estate agents counted by state, city and brokerage

United States New York

New York · real estate agents · September 2026

How many real estate agents in New York?

Count taken September 5, 2026Page built September 5, 2026

24,210 real estate agents in New York had a published, current brokerage profile when we counted on September 5, 2026. That is 4.9% of the 493,081 agents counted across the United States, and ranks New York 5th of 51 states and DC.

"Agent" on this page means a person with a live profile on a brokerage's website at the time of the count. It is not the number of licences New York has issued, which is higher because many licensees are inactive or unaffiliated, and it is not REALTOR® association membership. The count covers 17 brands; see how the counting works for what is and is not included.

24,210agents counted
130brokerages with at least one agent
50cities with 100+ agents
4.9%of all US agents counted
5thof 51 states and DC

Change over time

This is the first published count for New York (September 2026). When the next count is taken, the change will appear here with both dates.

Top real estate brokerages in New York

The ten biggest real estate companies in New York by number of agents with a published profile. A company that publishes no office names (Keller Williams, RE/MAX, Compass and others) appears as one row.

BrokerageAgentsShare of attributed agentsBrand
1Keller Williams3,83115.8%
2Compass3,02712.5%
3Douglas Elliman2,98812.3%
4Corcoran2,0598.5%
5Signature Premier Properties1,5076.2%
6Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices1,3565.6%
7HUNT Real Estate ERA1,1554.8%ERA
8Coldwell Banker American Homes1,0344.3%Coldwell Banker
9RE/MAX1,0074.2%
10Real Broker9493.9%Real Brokerage

By brand rather than company, Keller Williams has 3,831 (16%), Compass has 3,027 (13%), Douglas Elliman has 2,988 (12%), Coldwell Banker has 2,688 (11%) and Corcoran has 2,059 (9%). A brand's figure adds up every company operating under that name, so a franchise like Coldwell Banker or Century 21 is spread over many rows in the table above but appears once here.

Which New York cities have the most real estate agents?

Cities are taken from the office or agent address as published; suburbs are counted separately from their core city.

CityAgentsShare of New York
1New York3,32513.7%
2Brooklyn1,0384.3%
3Rochester5532.3%
4Woodbury4852.0%
5Williamsville4101.7%
6Huntington3961.6%
7Garden City3641.5%
8Manhasset3511.4%
9Franklin Square3481.4%
10Smithtown3171.3%

2,269 New York agents (9.4%) have a profile that names no city and are counted only in the state total.

All New York cities with 100 or more agents

Websites, phone numbers and email

Among the 16,037 New York agents whose profiles we check for a personal website, 2.6% have a site of their own rather than a page on the brokerage's site. The national figure is 7.2%. 93.5% of the 24,210 checked agents publish a direct phone number (national: 90.7%). Every counted agent has a published email address, which is the inclusion rule. In New York, 50% of those addresses are on a franchise domain, 35% on the agent's or the office's own domain, and 15% on free webmail such as Gmail or Yahoo. No address appears on this site.

Where the data comes from

The count is built from the public agent directories of 17 brokerage brands operating in New York, led by Keller Williams, Compass, Douglas Elliman and Coldwell Banker. Brands that publish no directory, and independent brokerages outside those networks, are not counted, so the true number of working agents is higher than the figure on this page; the ranking of brokerages and cities is among the networks we can see.

Every agent counted here has a published email address; that is the inclusion rule. The contact file itself, one row per agent, is sold as the New York realtor email list at usrealtorlist.com, which is where these counts are drawn from.

Questions this page answers

How many real estate agents in New York?
24,210 as of September 5, 2026, counting agents with a published brokerage profile. Licence counts and REALTOR® membership are different, larger numbers.
What is the largest real estate brokerage in New York?
Keller Williams, with 3,831 agents, 15.8% of New York agents whose profile names a brokerage. By brand, Keller Williams is largest with 3,831.
Which city in New York has the most real estate agents?
New York with 3,325, followed by Brooklyn (1,038) and Rochester (553).

Cite this page

Realty Census (2026). How many real estate agents in New York? 24,210 in September 2026. Count dated 2026-09-05. https://realtycensus.com/new-york/