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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Hempstead, NY
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Hempstead, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Hempstead. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Hempstead, NY safe?
Hempstead, New York has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 15 out of 100, grade F, below the New York statewide score of 46. An estimated 6% of its residents live in neighborhoods graded A or B, compared with 34% statewide. Safety Scores are modeled estimates, not official crime rates.
- Safety Score
- 15 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 6%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 92%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 37
How Hempstead compares
Hempstead scores 31 points below the New York statewide score of 46. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Hempstead lies in Nassau County, which has a county Safety Score of 84, grade A.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Hempstead.
Neighborhoods inside Hempstead
37 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Hempstead, 37 of them mostly inside it. Among those 37, the lowest scores 1, the highest 83, and the middle 80% range from 3 to 41.
ZIP codes where Hempstead residents live
Nearly all of Hempstead's estimated residents live in ZIP 11550 (Safety Score 17, grade F). An estimated 5% of that ZIP's residents live outside Hempstead, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 11550 profile.
Closest cities in New York
- Garden City Safety Score 46 · grade C · 2.1 miles
- Mineola Safety Score 46 · grade C · 3.0 miles
- Rockville Centre Safety Score 41 · grade C · 3.1 miles
- Westbury Safety Score 59 · grade C · 4.0 miles
- Freeport Safety Score 40 · grade C · 4.0 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Hempstead
Hempstead has an estimated 59,569 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 3.7 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 37 scored Census block groups that lie at least partly within those limits.
How this page is built
ZIP codes are listed by the estimated share of the city's residents who live in them, from 2020 Census block-group population spread evenly over each block group's land. The city score is not an average of ZIP scores.
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