Long Island towns · Checked November 6, 2026
Thirteen towns. Five fiscal years, 2021 through 2025. A number appears only when a document prints it, and only for the row that document names.
These rows do not measure the same thing. A garage's “vehicles maintained” line is not a police patrol count, and a police patrol count is not a town fleet. Where a year is missing, the cell stays blank. It is not filled with zero, and it is not carried forward.
Oyster Bay's garage row: vehicles maintained. Not stated as owned or in service. Equipment inclusion is not stated.
Huntington prints four lines. They are not added, and none is labeled the whole town fleet.
Southampton patrol units and sanitation vehicles. A police subset stays a police subset.
Hempstead's February 2021 OSC inventory, including heavy machinery, trailers, and golf carts. One date.
Islip's collection sentence, FY2022–FY2026. Not an actual inventory.
The opened documents did not show a count. A blank is not a zero.
Brookhaven and East Hampton blocked automated downloads. No workaround, and no guess.
Each block is one town. A town with more than one published line gets more than one row. Nothing here is sorted by size, because a larger number can be a broader category.
Equipment-inclusive snapshot
Total vehicles OSC Quick Facts and the February 2021 finding
1,236 as of February 2021
No FY2021–FY2025 comparison. The five year columns are blank on purpose. Includes heavy machinery. The finding also lists trailers and golf carts. This is not a count of vehicles in service at the end of FY2025.
Snapshot detail · Quick Facts, printed p.1 (PDF p.3) · Finding, printed p.3 (PDF p.5)
Not located in sources reviewed
Not located in sources reviewed. The research pass opened the 2024 ACFR capital-asset statistics and the 2025 adopted budget. Those files were not in the packet re-read for this page. No FY2021–FY2025 vehicle inventory was located.
Central maintenance
Vehicles maintained General Government Support — Central vehicle maintenance
First to last: 589 to 609, +20 (+3.4%). Garage count of vehicles maintained. Not stated as owned or in service. The report does not say whether equipment is included. Do not add the collection-truck row.
Year-over-year table · Capital Asset Statistics by Function — Last Ten Years, printed p.195–196
Department
Collection trucks Home and Community Service — Sanitation
First to last: 67 to 67, 0 (0.0%). Sanitation collection trucks, a separate line. It may overlap vehicles maintained. Do not add the rows.
Year-over-year table · Capital Asset Statistics by Function — Last Ten Years, printed p.195–196
Not located in sources reviewed
Not located in sources reviewed. The research pass opened the 2025 and 2026 adopted budgets and the 2024 and 2025 financial statements. Those files were not in the packet re-read for this page. No vehicle inventory was located.
Not reviewed
Not reviewed. brookhavenny.gov returned a block page to automated downloads, so the town budget and financial statements were not opened. This page does not say whether Brookhaven prints a fleet count.
Not reviewed
Not reviewed. ehamptonny.gov Archive Center returned a block page to automated downloads, so the 2025 and 2026 budgets and capital-plan narratives were not opened. No browser workaround was used. This page does not say whether East Hampton prints a fleet count.
Functional category
Vehicles General government support
First to last: 498 to 591, +93 (+18.7%). One functional line. The report does not say this is the whole town fleet, and it does not say the four vehicle lines are exclusive. Do not add them.
Year-over-year table · Capital Asset Statistics by Function — Last Ten Fiscal Years, printed p.110
Functional category
Vehicles Public safety
First to last: 41 to 39, -2 (-4.9%). Public safety vehicles. Not a townwide fleet. Do not add it to general government, buses, or collection trucks, and do not rank it against another town's whole-fleet row.
Year-over-year table · Capital Asset Statistics by Function — Last Ten Fiscal Years, printed p.110
Functional category
Public transportation — buses Transportation
First to last: 27 to 28, +1 (+3.7%). Public transportation buses. Do not add this line to the other Huntington rows.
Year-over-year table · Capital Asset Statistics by Function — Last Ten Fiscal Years, printed p.110
Functional category
Collection trucks Home and community services — Sanitation
First to last: 15 to 14, -1 (-6.7%). Sanitation collection trucks. Do not add this line to the other Huntington rows.
Year-over-year table · Capital Asset Statistics by Function — Last Ten Fiscal Years, printed p.110
Adopted-budget narrative
Collection unit Department of Environmental Control. Not an actual inventory.
9 CNG + 8 diesel, stated as 17
The same sentence is in the adopted books for FY2022, FY2023, FY2024, FY2025, and FY2026. No as-of date is printed. This is not an actual 2026 inventory, and the repeated 17 is not a measured change of zero. A townwide Islip count was not located.
Not located in sources reviewed
Not located in sources reviewed. The research pass opened the 2025 adopted budget and the 2026 budget supplement. Those files were not in the packet re-read for this page. No vehicle inventory was located.
Not located in sources reviewed
Not located in sources reviewed. The research pass opened the town budget archive item used for the adopted schedules. That file was not in the packet re-read for this page. No vehicle inventory was located.
Not located in sources reviewed
Not located in sources reviewed for FY2021–FY2025. The research pass opened the 2025 adopted budget and the 2024 financial statements and found dollar lines only. Those files were not in the packet re-read for this page.
Department, partial
Patrol units Public safety
First to last: 105 to 109, +4 (+3.8%). Police patrol units only. This is not a town fleet. Do not add sanitation vehicles, and do not rank this row against a central-maintenance or general-government count.
Year-over-year table · Capital Asset Statistics by Function — Last Ten Fiscal Years, printed p.144
Department, partial
Vehicles Home and community services — Sanitation
First to last: 60 to 45, -15 (-25.0%). Sanitation vehicles only. Do not add patrol units.
Year-over-year table · Capital Asset Statistics by Function — Last Ten Fiscal Years, printed p.144
Not located in sources reviewed
Not located in sources reviewed. The research pass opened the 2025 adopted budget. That file was not in the packet re-read for this page. No vehicle inventory was located.
Actual statistical counts only. Swipe sideways on a phone. A spanned cell is a gap, a one-day snapshot, or Islip's budget sentence.
| Town | Scope | Row | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 | First to last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hempstead | Equipment-inclusive snapshot | Total vehicles, February 2021 | No five-year series. 1,236 is a February 2021 snapshot, not a FY2021 actual. | Not a five-year change | ||||
| North Hempstead | Not located | No inventory row located | Not located in sources reviewed | |||||
| Oyster Bay | Central maintenance | General Government Support — Central vehicle maintenance — Vehicles maintained | 589 | 609 | 603 | 604 | 609 | +20 (+3.4%) |
| Oyster Bay | Department | Home and Community Service — Sanitation — Collection trucks | 67 | 67 | 67 | 67 | 67 | 0 (0.0%) |
| Babylon | Not located | No inventory row located | Not located in sources reviewed | |||||
| Brookhaven | Not reviewed | Town site blocked automated downloads | Not reviewed | |||||
| East Hampton | Not reviewed | Town site blocked automated downloads | Not reviewed | |||||
| Huntington | Functional category | General government support — Vehicles | 498 | 512 | 536 | 569 | 591 | +93 (+18.7%) |
| Huntington | Functional category | Public safety — Vehicles | 41 | 42 | 41 | 39 | 39 | -2 (-4.9%) |
| Huntington | Functional category | Transportation — Public transportation — buses | 27 | 25 | 24 | 28 | 28 | +1 (+3.7%) |
| Huntington | Functional category | Home and community services — Sanitation — Collection trucks | 15 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 14 | -1 (-6.7%) |
| Islip | Adopted-budget narrative | Collection unit, not an actual | Not an actual count. See the separate FY2022–FY2026 sentence. | Not measured | ||||
| Riverhead | Not located | No inventory row located | Not located in sources reviewed | |||||
| Shelter Island | Not located | No inventory row located | Not located in sources reviewed | |||||
| Smithtown | Not located | No inventory row located | Not located in sources reviewed | |||||
| Southampton | Department, partial | Public safety — Patrol units | 105 | 101 | 99 | 106 | 109 | +4 (+3.8%) |
| Southampton | Department, partial | Home and community services — Sanitation — Vehicles | 60 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 45 | -15 (-25.0%) |
| Southold | Not located | No inventory row located | Not located in sources reviewed | |||||
Bars stay inside a single row. The number beside the bar is the count. There is no line graph, and there is no cross-town ranking.
On the same Oyster Bay table, outside this five-year window, collection trucks are 64 in 2016, 81 in 2017, 91 in 2018, 94 in 2019, and 67 in 2020. Footnote 1, “As per consultation evaluation in 2018,” is printed on Streets (miles), not on the truck row. The truck counts are shown as printed.
General Government Support — Central vehicle maintenance
Garage count of vehicles maintained. Not stated as owned or in service. The report does not say whether equipment is included. Do not add the collection-truck row.
FY2021 to FY2025: 589 to 609, +20 (+3.4%).
| Fiscal year | Count | Change in count | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2021 | 589 | — | — |
| FY2022 | 609 | +20 | +3.4% |
| FY2023 | 603 | -6 | -1.0% |
| FY2024 | 604 | +1 | +0.2% |
| FY2025 | 609 | +5 | +0.8% |
Row. General Government Support — Central vehicle maintenance — Vehicles maintained. As of December 31 of each fiscal year. Basis. Maintained by central vehicle maintenance. The row does not say owned or in service. Table. Capital Asset Statistics by Function — Last Ten Years. Printed page 195–196. PDF page 202 and PDF page 203. Report date June 24, 2026. Unaudited statistical schedule. The table of contents labels the statistical section unaudited, and the auditor's opinion does not cover it.
Home and Community Service — Sanitation
Sanitation collection trucks, a separate line. It may overlap vehicles maintained. Do not add the rows.
FY2021 to FY2025: 67 to 67, 0 (0.0%).
| Fiscal year | Count | Change in count | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2021 | 67 | — | — |
| FY2022 | 67 | 0 | 0.0% |
| FY2023 | 67 | 0 | 0.0% |
| FY2024 | 67 | 0 | 0.0% |
| FY2025 | 67 | 0 | 0.0% |
Row. Home and Community Service — Sanitation — Collection trucks. As of December 31 of each fiscal year. Basis. A sanitation line. The report does not define owned or in service. Table. Capital Asset Statistics by Function — Last Ten Years. Printed page 195–196. PDF page 202 and PDF page 203. Report date June 24, 2026. Unaudited statistical schedule. The table of contents labels the statistical section unaudited, and the auditor's opinion does not cover it.
General government vehicles, public safety vehicles, buses, and collection trucks sit on one page. The report does not say a vehicle is in only one line. This page does not add 498, 41, 27, and 15, or any later year of those lines.
General government support
One functional line. The report does not say this is the whole town fleet, and it does not say the four vehicle lines are exclusive. Do not add them.
FY2021 to FY2025: 498 to 591, +93 (+18.7%).
| Fiscal year | Count | Change in count | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2021 | 498 | — | — |
| FY2022 | 512 | +14 | +2.8% |
| FY2023 | 536 | +24 | +4.7% |
| FY2024 | 569 | +33 | +6.2% |
| FY2025 | 591 | +22 | +3.9% |
Row. General government support — Vehicles. As of December 31 of each fiscal year. Basis. Table row only. Not defined as owned, in service, or townwide. Table. Capital Asset Statistics by Function — Last Ten Fiscal Years. Printed page 110. PDF page 140. Report date July 1, 2026. Unaudited statistical schedule. The auditor's opinion does not cover the statistical section.
Public safety
Public safety vehicles. Not a townwide fleet. Do not add it to general government, buses, or collection trucks, and do not rank it against another town's whole-fleet row.
FY2021 to FY2025: 41 to 39, -2 (-4.9%).
| Fiscal year | Count | Change in count | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2021 | 41 | — | — |
| FY2022 | 42 | +1 | +2.4% |
| FY2023 | 41 | -1 | -2.4% |
| FY2024 | 39 | -2 | -4.9% |
| FY2025 | 39 | 0 | 0.0% |
Row. Public safety — Vehicles. As of December 31 of each fiscal year. Basis. Table row only. Not defined as owned or in service. Table. Capital Asset Statistics by Function — Last Ten Fiscal Years. Printed page 110. PDF page 140. Report date July 1, 2026. Unaudited statistical schedule. The auditor's opinion does not cover the statistical section.
Transportation
Public transportation buses. Do not add this line to the other Huntington rows.
FY2021 to FY2025: 27 to 28, +1 (+3.7%).
| Fiscal year | Count | Change in count | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2021 | 27 | — | — |
| FY2022 | 25 | -2 | -7.4% |
| FY2023 | 24 | -1 | -4.0% |
| FY2024 | 28 | +4 | +16.7% |
| FY2025 | 28 | 0 | 0.0% |
Row. Transportation — Public transportation — buses. As of December 31 of each fiscal year. Basis. Table row only. Table. Capital Asset Statistics by Function — Last Ten Fiscal Years. Printed page 110. PDF page 140. Report date July 1, 2026. Unaudited statistical schedule. The auditor's opinion does not cover the statistical section.
Home and community services — Sanitation
Sanitation collection trucks. Do not add this line to the other Huntington rows.
FY2021 to FY2025: 15 to 14, -1 (-6.7%).
| Fiscal year | Count | Change in count | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2021 | 15 | — | — |
| FY2022 | 15 | 0 | 0.0% |
| FY2023 | 15 | 0 | 0.0% |
| FY2024 | 14 | -1 | -6.7% |
| FY2025 | 14 | 0 | 0.0% |
Row. Home and community services — Sanitation — Collection trucks. As of December 31 of each fiscal year. Basis. Table row only. Table. Capital Asset Statistics by Function — Last Ten Fiscal Years. Printed page 110. PDF page 140. Report date July 1, 2026. Unaudited statistical schedule. The auditor's opinion does not cover the statistical section.
Patrol units are not the town fleet. Sanitation vehicles are not the town fleet. The two rows are not added, and neither is ranked against Oyster Bay or Huntington.
Public safety
Police patrol units only. This is not a town fleet. Do not add sanitation vehicles, and do not rank this row against a central-maintenance or general-government count.
FY2021 to FY2025: 105 to 109, +4 (+3.8%).
| Fiscal year | Count | Change in count | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2021 | 105 | — | — |
| FY2022 | 101 | -4 | -3.8% |
| FY2023 | 99 | -2 | -2.0% |
| FY2024 | 106 | +7 | +7.1% |
| FY2025 | 109 | +3 | +2.8% |
Row. Public safety — Patrol units. As of December 31 of each fiscal year. Basis. Patrol units. The table does not say this is every police vehicle. Table. Capital Asset Statistics by Function — Last Ten Fiscal Years. Printed page 144. PDF page 155. Report date May 29, 2026. Unaudited statistical schedule. The auditor's opinion does not cover the statistical section.
Home and community services — Sanitation
Sanitation vehicles only. Do not add patrol units.
FY2021 to FY2025: 60 to 45, -15 (-25.0%).
| Fiscal year | Count | Change in count | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2021 | 60 | — | — |
| FY2022 | 50 | -10 | -16.7% |
| FY2023 | 50 | 0 | 0.0% |
| FY2024 | 50 | 0 | 0.0% |
| FY2025 | 45 | -5 | -10.0% |
Row. Home and community services — Sanitation — Vehicles. As of December 31 of each fiscal year. Basis. Sanitation vehicles. Not a townwide fleet. Table. Capital Asset Statistics by Function — Last Ten Fiscal Years. Printed page 144. PDF page 155. Report date May 29, 2026. Unaudited statistical schedule. The auditor's opinion does not cover the statistical section.
This section is not an inventory. Each adopted book, FY2022 through FY2026, prints one sentence in the Department of Environmental Control narrative: the Collection Unit operates nine (9) compressed natural gas vehicles and eight (8) diesel vehicles for residential solid waste, recyclables, and yard waste for approximately 8,000 homes. Nine and eight are parts of that sentence. Seventeen is those two parts read together, not a second count and not a townwide fleet.
The sentence does not give an as-of date. A flat line of 17 is the sentence being repeated. It is not a measured change of zero, and the FY2026 figure is not an actual 2026 inventory.
| Book | CNG | Diesel | Sentence total | Measured change | Where it is printed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 adopted | 9 | 8 | 17 | Not measured | PDF p.85, printed footer 84. no comma after and. Ends with a semicolon. |
| FY2023 adopted | 9 | 8 | 17 | Not measured | PDF p.85, printed footer 84. no comma after and. Ends with a period. |
| FY2024 adopted | 9 | 8 | 17 | Not measured | PDF p.77, printed footer 76. comma after and. Ends with a semicolon. |
| FY2025 adopted | 9 | 8 | 17 | Not measured | PDF p.71, no printed page number in the text layer. comma after and. Ends with a semicolon. |
| FY2026 adopted | 9 | 8 | 17 | Not measured | PDF p.64, printed footer 2. comma after and. Ends with a semicolon. |
The department header on these pages is “Department of Environmental Control.” FY2022 and FY2023 have no comma in “and eight.” FY2024, FY2025, and FY2026 print “and, eight.” FY2023 ends the sentence with a period. The other four years end it with a semicolon.
One snapshot. No five-year comparison. The State Comptroller's September 2022 examination (2022M-25) says departmental inventory records included 1,236 vehicles as of February 2021. The Quick Facts box prints the same 1,236 under the heading “Town Vehicles During the Audit Period.” The audit period started January 1, 2018, and was extended to February 2021 for updated records.
The finding says the inventory included sedans, SUVs, various trucks, heavy equipment, trailers, and golf carts. Heavy machinery is in the total. This is not a count of vehicles maintained at a central garage, and it is not a December 31 fiscal-year statistic.
| Printed part | Count |
|---|---|
| Passenger vehicles | 553 |
| Trucks | 431 |
| Heavy machinery | 127 |
| Other | 125 |
| Total vehicles | 1,236 |
The same finding splits three departments out of that inventory: parks and recreation 296, highway 244, and sanitation 224. The audit says those three are 764, or 62 percent, of the 1,236. They are a split of the snapshot, not another fleet, and they are not added to 1,236.
Quick Facts, report printed page 1, PDF page 3
Finding, report printed page 3, PDF page 5
Office of the New York State Comptroller, Report of Examination 2022M-25, Town of Hempstead, Vehicles and Fuel Usage, September 2022
The window is the last five complete actual reporting years, FY2021 through FY2025, ending December 31. No FY2026 actual inventory was in the reports re-read for this page. Counts were checked on November 6, 2026.
Oyster Bay, Huntington, and Southampton print the counts in a capital-asset statistics table in the statistical section of the 2025 annual report. Those schedules are unaudited. Each auditor's opinion covers the financial statements and says it does not cover the statistical section. Oyster Bay's table of contents labels the section “Statistical Section (Unaudited).” These tables are not audited data.
Percent change is the new count minus the prior count, divided by the prior count, rounded half up to one decimal. First-to-last uses FY2021 and FY2025 the same way. A printed zero change, such as Oyster Bay's collection trucks at 67 in every year, is a real published count. A year that was not printed is left as “Not located in sources reviewed” or “Not reviewed.” It is not stored as zero.
Rows are not added. Huntington's four lines can overlap. Oyster Bay's collection trucks may already sit inside “vehicles maintained.” Southampton's patrol units and sanitation vehicles are partial. None of those partial rows is ranked against a broader row.
Hempstead is the State Comptroller's February 2021 inventory of 1,236, including heavy machinery. The Quick Facts parts — 553 passenger vehicles, 431 trucks, 127 heavy machinery, and 125 other — are the Comptroller's split of that same total. There is no later year in the sources re-read here.
Islip is a sentence in the adopted budget, repeated for FY2022 through FY2026: nine CNG vehicles and eight diesel vehicles. The books do not say as of when. Calling that an actual 2026 inventory, or a measured change of zero, would overstate the document.
Brookhaven's website and East Hampton's archive returned a block page to automated downloads. Those budgets were not reviewed. This page does not say the towns publish no fleet count. North Hempstead, Babylon, Riverhead, Shelter Island, Smithtown, and Southold are “Not located in sources reviewed.” The research pass opened adopted budgets and financial statements named in the source manifest and did not locate an FY2021–FY2025 inventory. Those particular files were not in the packet re-read for this page, so the gap is not a claim that no document anywhere has a count.
Left off the page on purpose: news articles, campaign pages, federal motor-carrier registrations, and counts from before FY2021. Purchases, capital-project dollar lines, and acquisition totals are not inventories and are not shown as vehicle counts.
Re-read for this page: Huntington 2025 annual report, printed page 110 (PDF page 140), auditors' report July 1, 2026. Oyster Bay 2025 annual report, printed pages 195–196 (PDF pages 202–203), transmittal June 24, 2026. Southampton 2025 annual report, printed page 144 (PDF page 155), report May 29, 2026. Hempstead OSC 2022M-25, September 2022, Quick Facts PDF page 3 and finding PDF page 5. Islip adopted-budget text for FY2022 through FY2026.
A research note had placed Huntington's table on PDF page 137. That page is the section divider. The table is PDF page 140. Islip's printed footers are a page behind the PDF page on the FY2022, FY2023, and FY2024 books (84, 84, and 76). The FY2026 footer on PDF page 64 is 2.
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