Crime in Hempstead, New York
Major crime in Hempstead is 43% below the U.S. rate per resident: about the same for persons crimes and 51% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 33.3% 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.
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Robbery stands out most, at 1.7 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Hempstead 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 Hempstead
The middle half of Hempstead residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 29 and 57; the typical (median) resident's is 42. The citywide figure (58) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5061.0%
- 50–10032.7%
- 100–2001.6%
- 200–4003.8%
- 400+0.8%
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 33.3% 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.
Hempstead against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
435 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Hempstead; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Hempstead 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, Uniondale (1 mi), is 1.7 times Hempstead's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Hempstead
What are the most common crimes in Hempstead?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 185 a year), aggravated assault (about 131 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 78 a year). Compared with the U.S., robbery stands out most: 1.7 times 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. Hempstead's figures add up its 37 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Hempstead has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 52.3% 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: 60,214. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Hempstead, New York." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ny/hempstead
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Uniondale1 mi96
- South Hempstead2 mi37
- West Hempstead2 mi54
- Garden City2 mi40
- Garden City South2 mi77
- Roosevelt2 mi38
- Mineola3 mi64
- Rockville Centre3 mi21