Crime in West Hempstead, New York
Major crime in West Hempstead is 46% below the U.S. rate per resident: 57% lower for persons crimes and 43% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.2% 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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Every crime type in West Hempstead is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in West 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 West Hempstead
The middle half of West Hempstead residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 30 and 61; the typical (median) resident's is 46.
- 0–5050.9%
- 50–10038.1%
- 100–20011.1%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+0.0%
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 7.2% 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.
West Hempstead against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,394 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than West Hempstead; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
West 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, Garden City South (1 mi), is 42% above West Hempstead's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in West Hempstead
What are the most common crimes in West Hempstead?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 65 a year), shoplifting (about 54 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 31 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 18% below 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. West Hempstead's figures add up its 18 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- West Hempstead 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: 20,811. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in West Hempstead, New York." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ny/west-hempstead
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Garden City South1 mi77
- Franklin Square1 mi53
- Malverne2 mi17
- South Hempstead2 mi37
- Hempstead2 mi58
- Garden City2 mi40
- Rockville Centre2 mi21
- Elmont3 mi54