Crime in East Meadow, New York
Major crime in East Meadow is 37% below the U.S. rate per resident: 59% lower for persons crimes and 32% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.1% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
Check an address in East Meadow
Shoplifting stands out most, at 25% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in East Meadow for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across East Meadow
The middle half of East Meadow residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 27 and 61; the typical (median) resident's is 35. The citywide figure (63) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5061.0%
- 50–10026.6%
- 100–2008.7%
- 200–4001.3%
- 400+2.4%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.1% in a year; across New York it fell 8.7%
Change in expected crimes, with New York as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
East Meadow against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
595 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than East Meadow; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
East Meadow has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, North Bellmore (2 mi), is 31% below East Meadow's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in East Meadow
What are the most common crimes in East Meadow?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 147 a year), other larceny (about 126 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 57 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 25% above the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. East Meadow's figures add up its 34 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- East Meadow has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 0.0% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 37,111. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in East Meadow, New York." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ny/east-meadow
Use these numbers in your product
Any U.S. address by API or MCP, free for 10,000 lookups a month.
Get a free API keyNearest cities we publish
Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- North Bellmore2 mi44
- North Merrick2 mi32
- Uniondale2 mi96
- Salisbury2 mi64
- Levittown2 mi58
- Roosevelt3 mi38
- New Cassel3 mi63
- Hempstead3 mi58