Town of Hempstead, New York - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Hempstead is one of the three towns in Nassau County

Nassau County, New York

Nassau County is a suburban county on Long Island, east of New York City in the U.S. state of New York, within the New York Metropolitan Area. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,339,532...

, New York

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, United States

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, occupying the southwest part of the county. There are twenty-two incorporated villages completely or partially in the town. Hempstead's combined population was 759,757 at the 2010 Census, the majority of the population of the county and by far the most of any town in New York. There is also a village named Hempstead

Hempstead (village), New York

Hempstead is a village located in the town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, United States. The population was 53,891 at the 2010 census.Hofstra University is located on the border between Hempstead and Uniondale.-Foundation:...

within the town.

If the town were to be incorporated as a city it would be the 2nd largest city in New York behind New York City

New York City

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and ahead of Buffalo

Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the...

, and it would be the 16th largest city in the country, placing itself behind Columbus, Ohio

Columbus, Ohio

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with a population of 787,033, and ahead of Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth, Texas

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, which has a population of 741,206. The town's density is also greater than Columbus' and Fort Worth's, which are 3,556.1 per square mile, and 2,403.7 per square mile respectively.

History

The town was first settled around 1644 following the establishment of a treaty between English colonists, John Carman and Robert Fordham, and the Indians in 1643. Although the settlers were from the English colony of Connecticut

Connecticut

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, a patent was issued by New Amsterdam

New Amsterdam

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after the settlers had purchased land from the local natives. This transaction can be seen in a mural in the Hempstead Village Hall, reproduced from a poster commemorating the 300th anniversary of Hempstead Village.

Regarding the origin of the name "Hempstead", Hempstead founder John Carman was born in 1606 in Hemel Hempstead

Hemel Hempstead

Hemel Hempstead is a town in Hertfordshire in the East of England, to the north west of London and part of the Greater London Urban Area. The population at the 2001 Census was 81,143 ....

, Hertfordshire, England, on ancestral land recorded in the 2nd historic census of England (under Edward the First

Edward I of England

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), the Rotuli Hundredorum (Hundred Rolls

Hundred Rolls

The Hundred Rolls are a census of England and parts of what is now Wales taken in the late thirteenth century. Often considered an attempt to produce a second Domesday Book, they are named for the hundreds by which most returns were recorded....

) AD 1273 as being owned by his direct ancestor Henry Carman. These same properties were on record continuously as being owned by Henry's descendants, through John Carman of 1606. John's wife Florence and her father, Rev. Robert Fordham, were from Surrey, England.

Another theory regarding the origin of the name 'Hempstead' is that it is derived from the Dutch town of 'Heemstede' in the Netherlands, as this was an area many Dutch settlers of New Netherland originated from. Several of Hempstead's original fifty patentees had Dutch surname

Surname

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s. In 1664, the new settlement adopted the Duke's Laws

The Duke's Laws

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, an austere set of laws that became the basis upon which the laws of many colonies were to be founded. For a time, Hempstead became known as "Old Blue," as a result of the "Blue Laws

Blue law

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".

During the American Revolution

American Revolution

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the Loyalists

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in the south and the American sympathizers in the north caused a split in 1784 into "North Hempstead

Town of North Hempstead, New York

North Hempstead is one of three towns in Nassau County, New York, USA. As of the 2010 census, the town population was 226,322.The Town of North Hempstead occupies the northwest part of the county. Its Supervisor is Jon Kaiman, a Democrat.-History:...

" and "South Hempstead". With the 1898 incorporation of the Borough of Queens as part of the city of New York, and the 1899 split of Queens County to create Nassau County, some southwestern portions of the Town of Hempstead seceded from the town and became part of the Borough of Queens

Queens

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.

Richard Hewlett, who was born in Hempstead, served as a Lieutenant Colonel with the British Army under General Oliver De Lancey in the American Revolution. Afterwards, Hewlett departed the United States with other Loyalists and settled in the newly-created Province of New Brunswick in what later became Canada. The region he settled in preserves a connection in name with his birthplace: Hampstead in Queen's County, which lies next to Long Island in the Saint John River.

Government and politics

The Town is headed by the Supervisor, currently Kate Murray

Kate Murray

Kate Murray is the Supervisor of the Town of Hempstead, New York, United States. Murray is the first woman to be elected supervisor since the position was created in 1918.-Education and early career:...

(R-Levittown). The responsibilities of the office include presiding over meetings of the Town Council and directing the legislative and administrative function of that body. The position also entails creating and implementing the town's budget. Murray is the first woman elected to this office. One famous former supervisor was Republican

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Alfonse D'Amato, who later represented New York in the United States Senate

United States Senate

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from 1981 to 1999.

The Town Council comprises six voting members, elected from a councilmatic district. Their primary function is to adopt the annual budget, adopting and amending the town code and the building zone ordinances, adopting all traffic regulations, and hearing applications for changes of zone and special exceptions to zoning codes.

As of the 2005 local elections, the council members are:

Dorothy L. Goosby (D-Hempstead Village)
Edward A. Ambrosino (R-North Valley Stream)
James Darcy (R-Valley Stream)
Anthony J. Santino (R-East Rockaway)
Angie M. Cullin (R-Freeport)
Gary Hudes (R-Levittown)

Other elected officials in the town include the clerk and the receiver of taxes. The clerk is responsible for issuing birth, marriage, and death certificates and is considered the town's record keeper. The clerk is currently Mark A. Bonilla of Seaford. The Receiver of Taxes is Donald X. Clavin, Jr. of Garden City.

State and federal representation

Hempstead is part of New York's 3rd and 4th Congressional Districts. District 3

New York's 3rd congressional district

The 3rd District of New York is generally the eastern half of Nassau County, with some parts as far west as Island Park and Long Beach. The Nassau portion contains suburban communities such as Bellmore, Bethpage, Farmingdale, Hicksville, Levittown, Massapequa, Massapequa Park, Merrick, North...

, represented by Peter T. King

Peter T. King

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(R-Seaford), is the southern and eastern portions of the town, while District 4

New York's 4th congressional district

The 4th Congressional District of New York is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives in west-central Nassau County...

, represented by Carolyn McCarthy

Carolyn McCarthy

Carolyn McCarthy is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1997. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district is located in central Long Island in west-central Nassau County and includes Mineola, the Five Towns, East Rockaway, Rockville Centre, Oceanside, Garden City, Hempstead,...

(D-Mineola), is the northern and western portions of the town.

Hempstead is in parts of New York's 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th Senatorial Districts. They are currently represented by Kemp Hannon

Kemp Hannon

J. Kemp Hannon is a member of the New York State Senate, from Nassau County. Sen. Hannon has represented the 6th District since 1989 which covers Levittown, Massapequa, Garden City, Uniondale, Hempstead, Farmingdale, Franklin Square, Old Bethpage, Salisbury, Garden City South, Plainview,...

(R), Jack Martins

Jack Martins

Jack M. Martins is a Republican member of the New York State Senate, representing the 7th district located in Nassau County, New York.-Early life and education:...

(R), Charles J. Fuschillo, Jr. (R), and Dean Skelos

Dean Skelos

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(R), respectively.

Eight assembly districts are either within or partly within the town. They are Districts 12, 14-15, and 17-21. The assembly members are Joseph Saladino

Joseph Saladino

Joseph S. Saladino is a member of the New York State Assembly and a former broadcast journalist. He represents the 12th Assembly district which includes Massapequa, Massapequa Park, Farmingdale and part of Levittown....

(R), Brian F. Curran

Brian F. Curran

Brian F. Curran is an American politician from Lynbrook, New York. Curran was elected to the New York State Assembly in 2010...

(R), Michael Montesano

Michael Montesano

Michael A. Montesano is an American politician who is a member of the New York State Assembly serving the 15th Assembly District....

(R), Thomas McKevitt

Thomas McKevitt

Thomas McKevitt represents District 17 in the New York Assembly, which includes large portions of Nassau County, New York....

(R), Earlene Hill Hooper

Earlene Hill Hooper

Earlene Hill Hooper represents District 18 in the New York State Assembly, which includes large portions of Nassau County, New York....

(D), David G. McDonough (R), Harvey D. Weisenberg (D), and Edward Ra (R), respectively.

County Legislators

Hempstead has 12 county legislative districts either within or in part of the town. They are districts 1-8, 13-15, and 19. The legislators who represent those districts are:

1. Kevan Abrahams

2. Robert Troiano

3. John Ciotti

4. Denise Ford

5. Joseph Scannell

6. Francis X. Becker, Jr.

7. Howard Kopel

8. Vincent Muscarella

13. Norma L. Gonsalves

14. Joseph Belesi

15. Dennis Dunne, Sr.

19. David Denenberg

Politics

Though the town government is still controlled by the Republicans

Republican Party (United States)

(and has been for almost the entire history of the party), town voters in recent years leaned Democratic in elections on the state and federal level. In the last three presidential elections, the Democrat has won decisively in Hempstead (Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

received 56% in 1996, Al Gore

Al Gore

Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. served as the 45th Vice President of the United States , under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election....

received 58% in 2000 and John Kerry

John Kerry

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got 53% in 2004). Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer won Hempstead by a large margin in 2004, Democratic County Executive Thomas Suozzi

Thomas Suozzi

Thomas R. "Tom" Suozzi was the county executive of Nassau County, New York. He was first elected to the post of county executive in 2001, the first Democratic county executive since Eugene Nickerson left office in 1971.In 2006, he ran unsuccessfully against Eliot Spitzer for the Democratic...

won here in 2001 and 2005, and most of the town is represented in the United States House of Representatives

United States House of Representatives

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by Democrat Carolyn McCarthy

Carolyn McCarthy

, who has consistently won over 60% of the vote in the last few election cycles.

Economy

According to a Newsday

Newsday

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survey, the Town of Hempstead is Long Island's 47th largest single employer with a total of 1,974 employees.

Lufthansa

Lufthansa

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and Swiss International Air Lines

Swiss International Air Lines

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have their United States headquarters in East Meadow

East Meadow, New York

East Meadow is a hamlet in Nassau County , New York, United States. East Meadow is an unincorporated area in the Town of Hempstead....

. At one time Swiss operated its United States office at 776 RexCorp Plaza in the EAB Plaza in Uniondale

Uniondale, New York

Uniondale is a hamlet as well as a suburb of New York City in Nassau County, New York, United States, on Long Island, in the Town of Hempstead. The population was 24,759 at the 2010 United States Census.-Geography:...

. The airline moved from 41 Pinelawn Road in Melville

Melville, New York

Melville is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Huntington in Suffolk County on Long Island, New York, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, 14,533 people resided there.-Location:...

, Suffolk County

Suffolk County, New York

Suffolk County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York on the eastern portion of Long Island. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,493,350. It was named for the county of Suffolk in England, from which its earliest settlers came...

around 2002.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau

United States Census Bureau

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, the town has a total area of 191.3 square miles (495.5 km²). 120.0 square miles (310.7 km²) of it is land and 71.4 square miles (184.8 km²) of it (37.30%) is water.

The west town line is the border of Queens County, New York

New York

, in New York City

New York City

. Its northern border is along the main line of the Long Island Rail Road

Long Island Rail Road

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and along Old Country Road

Old Country Road

Old Country Road is a major east–west thoroughfare through central Nassau County and extending into western Suffolk County on Long Island, New York. It serves many of the major shopping centers in central Nassau County including Roosevelt Field Mall...

in Garden City heading east towards the Wantagh Parkway. Its eastern border runs parallel (and several hundred feet west of) Route 107. To the south is the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Atlantic Beach, Lido, Pt. Lookout, and Jones Beach

Jones Beach

Jones Beach may refer to:* A barrier island off the coast of Long Island, New York:**Jones Beach State Park in Nassau County, New York in the United States**Jones Beach Island**Nikon at Jones Beach Theater...

. The town is located on Long Island

Long Island

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.

The most popular beach on the east coast of the United States, Jones Beach

Jones Beach State Park

Jones Beach State Park is a state park of the U.S. state of New York. It is located in southern Nassau County, in the hamlet of Wantagh, on Jones Beach Island, a barrier island linked to Long Island by the Meadowbrook State Parkway, Wantagh State Parkway and Ocean Parkway .The park is renowned for...

is located in Hempstead. The beach is a popular destination for Long Islanders and residents of New York City. The beach itself receives about six million visitors a year.

Communities

The town of Hempstead contains 22 villages and 37 hamlets:

Villages

Atlantic Beach
Atlantic Beach, New York
Atlantic Beach is an affluent village off the South Shore of Long Island in the Town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York. It is located on Long Beach Barrier Island, one of the outer barrier islands which it shares with Long Beach, East Atlantic Beach, Atlantic Beach Estates, Lido Beach and Point...
Bellerose
Bellerose, New York
Bellerose is a village in Nassau County, New York, in the United States. The population was 1,193 at the 2010 census.Bellerose is in the town of Hempstead near the western county line.- History :...
Cedarhurst
Cedarhurst, New York
Cedarhurst is a village in Nassau County, on the South Shore of Long Island, New York, in the USA. The population was 6,592 at the 2010 United States Census. The village is named after a grove of trees that once stood at the post office....
East Rockaway
East Rockaway, New York
East Rockaway is a village in Nassau County, New York, in the United States. The population was 9,818 at the 2010 census.The Incorporated Village of East Rockaway is in the town Hempstead, adjacent to Lynbrook, Hewlett and Oceanside. The primary ethnicities are mainly Italian and Irish...
Floral Park
Floral Park, New York
Floral Park is an incorporated village in Nassau County, New York, United States, on Long Island. The population as of the US Census of 2010 is 15,863. The village is at the western border of Nassau County, and is located in both the Town of Hempstead and the Town of North Hempstead...

(part; with North Hempstead)
Freeport
Freeport, New York
Freeport is a village in the town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, USA, on the South Shore of Long Island. The population was 42,860 at the 2010 census. A settlement since the 1640s, it was once an oystering community and later a resort popular with the New York City theater community...
Garden City
Garden City, New York
Garden City is a village in the town of Hempstead in central Nassau County, New York, in the United States. It was founded by multi-millionaire Alexander Turney Stewart in 1869, and is located on Long Island, to the east of New York City, from mid-town Manhattan, and just south of the town of...

(small part in North Hempstead)
Hempstead (village)
Hempstead (village), New York
Hempstead is a village located in the town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, United States. The population was 53,891 at the 2010 census.Hofstra University is located on the border between Hempstead and Uniondale.-Foundation:...
Hewlett Bay Park
Hewlett Bay Park, New York
Hewlett Bay Park is a village in Nassau County, New York in the USA, on the South Shore of Long Island. As of the United States 2010 Census, the village population was 404....
Hewlett Harbor
Hewlett Harbor, New York
Hewlett Harbor is a village in Nassau County, New York in the USA. The population was 1,263 at the 2010 census.The Village of Hewlett Harbor is inside the Town of Hempstead.-Geography:Hewlett Harbor is located at ....
Hewlett Neck
Hewlett Neck, New York
Hewlett Neck is a village in Nassau County, New York in the USA. The population was 445 at the 2010 census.The Village of Hewlett Neck is inside the Town of Hempstead....

Island Park
Island Park, New York
Island Park is a village located in Nassau County, New York in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the village had a total population of 4,655.Island Park is located in the town of Hempstead.-Geography:...
Lawrence
Lawrence, Nassau County, New York
Lawrence is a village in Nassau County, New York in the USA. As of the United States 2010 Census, the village population was 6,483.The Village of Lawrence is in the southwest corner of the Town of Hempstead, adjoining the border with the New York City borough of Queens to the west and near the...
Lynbrook
Lynbrook, New York
Lynbrook is a village in Nassau County, New York, USA. The population was 19,427 at the 2010 census. The Village of Lynbrook is inside the Town of Hempstead. The Village of Lynbrook's current mayor is William Hendrick....
Malverne
Malverne, New York
Malverne is a village in the town of Hempstead in Nassau County, New York, United States. The population was 8,514 at the 2010 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all of it land.-History:...
Mineola
Mineola, New York
Mineola is a village in Nassau County, New York, USA. The population was 18,799 at the 2010 census. The name is derived from a Native American word meaning a "pleasant place"....

(almost all in North Hempstead)
New Hyde Park
New Hyde Park, New York
New Hyde Park is a village in Nassau County, New York, United States, on Long Island.The population of the Village of New Hyde Park was 9,712 at the 2010 census...

(part; with North Hempstead)
Rockville Centre
Rockville Centre, New York
Rockville Centre is a village located in Nassau County, New York, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the village had a total population of 24,023. The town is made up of middle to upper middle class residents, most of the wealthier residents residing on the north side of town near the...
South Floral Park
South Floral Park, New York
South Floral Park is a village in Nassau County, New York, United States. United States. The population was 1,764 at the 2010 census.The Village of South Floral Park is inside the Town of Hempstead.- History :...
Stewart Manor
Stewart Manor, New York
Stewart Manor is a village in Nassau County, New York in the United States. The population was 1,896 at the 2010 census.The Incorporated Village of Stewart Manor is within the northern part of the Town of Hempstead on Long Island and is a suburb of New York City...
Valley Stream
Valley Stream, New York
Valley Stream is a village in Nassau County, New York in the United States. The population in the village of Valley Stream was 37,511 at the 2010 census...
Woodsburgh
Woodsburgh, New York
Woodsburgh is a village in Nassau County, New York in the United States. The population was 778 at the 2010 census.The mayor of the village is Susan Schlaff.Deputy Mayor:Edmond MukamalTrustees:Carl Cayne, Edmond Mukamal, Barry Sporer, Lee A...

Hamlets

Baldwin
Baldwin, Nassau County, New York
Baldwin is a hamlet located in the town of Hempstead in Nassau County, New York, United States. The population was 24,033 at the 2010 census.Baldwin is also a station on the Babylon Branch of the Long Island Rail Road....
Baldwin Harbor
Baldwin Harbor, New York
Baldwin Harbor is a hamlet in the town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, United States. It was created concomitant with the 1990 United States Census from the southernmost portions of the neighboring hamlet of Baldwin...
Barnum Island
Barnum Island, New York
Barnum Island is a hamlet in Nassau County, New York, United States. The population was 2,414 at the 2010 census.Barnum Island is an unincorporated area of the Town of Hempstead...
Bay Park
Bay Park, New York
Bay Park is a hamlet in Nassau County, New York, United States. The population was 2,212 at the 2010 census.Bay Park is in the southwest part of the Town of Hempstead...
Bellerose Terrace
Bellerose Terrace, New York
Bellerose Terrace is a hamlet in Nassau County, New York, USA. The population was 2,198 at the 2010 census.Bellerose Terrace is located in the town of Hempstead on the border of Queens County, New York.-Geography:...
Bellmore
The Bellmores, New York
Bellmore is a hamlet in Nassau County, New York, United States. The population according to the 2010 census was 16,218...
Bethpage
Bethpage, New York
Bethpage is a hamlet located on Long Island within the Town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, New York, United States, as well as a census-designated place with borders slightly different from those of the hamlet...

(part; with Oyster Bay
Oyster Bay (town), New York
The Town of Oyster Bay is easternmost of the three towns in Nassau County, New York, in the United States. Part of the New York metropolitan area, it is the only town in Nassau County that extends from the North Shore to the South Shore of Long Island. As of the 2010 census, the town population was...

)
East Atlantic Beach
East Atlantic Beach, New York
East Atlantic Beach is a hamlet and census-designated place in Nassau County, New York, United States. The population was 2,049 at the 2010 census. The unincorporated hamlet is governed by the Town of Hempstead, one of three towns in Nassau County....
East Garden City
East Garden City, New York
East Garden City is a census-designated place in the northeast part of the Town of Hempstead, in the central part of Nassau County, New York, along the Hempstead/North Hempstead town line. The population was 6,028 at the 2010 census...
East Meadow
East Meadow, New York
East Meadow is a hamlet in Nassau County , New York, United States. East Meadow is an unincorporated area in the Town of Hempstead....
Elmont
Elmont, New York
Elmont is an unincorporated census-designated place located in the northwest corner of the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, New York, along its border with the borough of Queens in New York City...
Franklin Square
Franklin Square, New York
Franklin Square is a hamlet in Nassau County, New York, United States. The population was 29,320 at the 2010 census...
Garden City South
Garden City South, New York
Garden City South is a hamlet in Nassau County, New York, United States. The population was 4,024 at the 2010 census.Garden City South is an unincorporated area of the Town of Hempstead.-Geography:...
Harbor Isle
Harbor Isle, New York
Harbor Isle is a hamlet and census-designated place in Nassau County, New York, United States. The population was 1,301 at the 2010 census...
Hewlett
Hewlett, New York
Hewlett is a hamlet and census-designated place in Nassau County, New York on the South Shore of Long Island. As of the United States 2010 Census, the CDP population was 6,819....
Inwood
Inwood, New York
Inwood is a hamlet and census-designated place in Nassau County, New York, United States. The population was 9,792 at the 2010 census.Inwood is included among the Five Towns, an informal grouping of villages and hamlets in Nassau County on the South Shore of western Long Island adjoining the...
Lakeview
Lakeview, New York
Lakeview is a census-designated place in Nassau County, New York, United States. The population was 5,615 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Lakeview is located at , west of Hempstead Lake State Park....
Levittown
Levittown, New York
Levittown is a hamlet in the Town of Hempstead located on Long Island in Nassau County, New York. Levittown is midway between the villages of Hempstead and Farmingdale. As of the 2010 census, the CDP had a total population of 51,881....
Lido Beach

Malverne Park Oaks
Malverne Park Oaks, New York
Malverne Park Oaks is a census-designated place in Nassau County, New York, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the CDP population was 505...
Merrick
Merrick, New York
Merrick is a hamlet in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, New York, USA. As of the 2010 census, the CDP population was 22,097. The name "Merrick" is taken from Meroke, the name of the Algonquian tribe formerly indigenous to the area...
North Bellmore
The Bellmores, New York
Bellmore is a hamlet in Nassau County, New York, United States. The population according to the 2010 census was 16,218...
North Lynbrook
North Lynbrook, New York
North Lynbrook is a census-designated place in Nassau County, New York, United States. The population of the CDP, which was first created for the 2000 census, was 793 at the 2010 census....
North Merrick
North Merrick, New York
North Merrick is a community and census-designated place in Nassau County, New York, United States. The population was 12,272 at the 2010 census.North Merrick is located on the south shore of Long Island...
North Valley Stream
North Valley Stream, New York
North Valley Stream is a census-designated place in Nassau County, New York, United States. The population was 16,628 at the 2010 census.-Geography:North Valley Stream is located at ....
North Wantagh
North Woodmere
North Woodmere, New York
North Woodmere is an unincorporated area section of Valley Stream, located in Nassau County, New York on the South Shore of Long Island. North Woodmere is directly north of Woodmere, but separated from it by Mott's Creek. Access to Woodmere is available via Branch Boulevard and a footbridge over...
Oceanside
Oceanside, New York
Oceanside is a hamlet located in the south part of the town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York. The population was 32,109 at the 2010 census.-History:...
Point Lookout
Point Lookout, New York
Point Lookout is a hamlet located in the town Hempstead in Nassau County, New York. The population was 1,219 at the 2010 census.-Geography:...
Roosevelt
Roosevelt, New York
Roosevelt is a hamlet in Nassau County, New York, United States. The population was 16,258 at the 2010 census.Roosevelt is in the town of Hempstead.-Geography:Roosevelt is located at ....
Salisbury (South Westbury)
Salisbury, Nassau County, New York
Salisbury is a hamlet and census-designated place in Nassau County, New York, United States. The population was 12,093 at the 2010 census. Many but not all are housed in Levitt style homes adjacent to Eisenhower Park, formerly Salisbury Park. The region is also known by locals as South Westbury,...
Seaford
Seaford, New York
Seaford is a census-designated place in Nassau County, New York, United States. The population was 15,294 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Seaford is located at ....
South Hempstead
South Hempstead, New York
South Hempstead is a hamlet in Nassau County, New York, United States. The population was 3,243 at the 2010 census.South Hempstead is in the town of Hempstead...
South Valley Stream
South Valley Stream, New York
South Valley Stream is a hamlet in Nassau County, New York, United States. The population was 5,962 at the 2010 census.South Valley Stream is in the south part of the Town of Hempstead.-Geography:...
Uniondale
Uniondale, New York
Uniondale is a hamlet as well as a suburb of New York City in Nassau County, New York, United States, on Long Island, in the Town of Hempstead. The population was 24,759 at the 2010 United States Census.-Geography:...
Wantagh
Wantagh, New York
Wantagh is a hamlet and census-designated place in Nassau County, New York, United States...
West Hempstead
West Hempstead, New York
Not to be confused with West Hampstead, London.West Hempstead is a hamlet in Nassau County, New York, United States. The population was 18,862 at the 2010 census...
Woodmere
Woodmere, New York
Woodmere is a hamlet in Nassau County, New York, United States. The population was 17,121 at the 2010 census.Woodmere is one of the Long Island communities known as the Five Towns, which is usually said to comprise the villages of Lawrence and Cedarhurst, the hamlets of Woodmere and Inwood, and...

Demographics

As of the census

Census

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of 2010, there were 759,757 people, 246,828 households, and 193,513 families residing in the town. The population density

Population density

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was 6,301.3 inhabitants per square mile (2,433.0/km²). There were 252,286 housing units at an average density of 2,103.0 per square mile (812.0/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 59.9% White, 16.5% Black or African American

Race (United States Census)

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, 0.3% Native American, 5.2% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 4.5% from other races

Race (United States Census)

, and 2.2% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 17.4% of the population.

There were 246,828 households out of which 36.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 62.2% were married couples

Marriage

Marriage is a social union or legal contract between people that creates kinship. It is an institution in which interpersonal relationships, usually intimate and sexual, are acknowledged in a variety of ways, depending on the culture or subculture in which it is found...

living together, 12.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 21.6% were non-families. 18.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.02 and the average family size was 3.41.

In the town the population was spread out with 25.4% under the age of 18, 7.8% from 18 to 24, 29.2% from 25 to 44, 23.4% from 45 to 64, and 14.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females there were 92.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 88.2 males.

According to a 2007 estimate, the median income for a household in the town was $84,362, and the median income for a family was $96,080.http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ACSSAFFFacts?_event=ChangeGeoContext&geo_id=06000US3605934000&_geoContext=01000US%7C04000US36%7C05000US36103%7C06000US3610304000&_street=&_county=hempstead&_cityTown=hempstead&_state=04000US36&_zip=&_lang=en&_sse=on&ActiveGeoDiv=geoSelect&_useEV=&pctxt=fph&pgsl=010&_submenuId=factsheet_1&ds_name=ACS_2006_SAFF&_ci_nbr=null&qr_name=null®=null%3Anull&_keyword=&_industry=]Males had a median income of $50,818 versus $36,334 for females. The per capita income

Per capita income

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for the town was $28,153. About 4.0% of families and 5.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 6.6% of those under age 18 and 5.7% of those age 65 or over.

State Parks

Hempstead Lake State Park
Hempstead Lake State Park
Hempstead Lake State Park is a state park located in West Hempstead, Nassau County, New York in the United States. The park is one of three state parks located within the Town of Hempstead. There is a quick-access entrance at exit 18 from the Southern State Parkway.The park contains three ponds...
Valley Stream State Park
Valley Stream State Park
Valley Stream State Park is a state park located in Valley Stream, Nassau County, New York in the United States. The park is one of three state parks located in the Town of Hempstead and, like Hempstead Lake State Park, originated as a feeder reservoir for the Ridgewood Reservoir.The park is a...
Jones Beach State Park
Jones Beach State Park
Jones Beach State Park is a state park of the U.S. state of New York. It is located in southern Nassau County, in the hamlet of Wantagh, on Jones Beach Island, a barrier island linked to Long Island by the Meadowbrook State Parkway, Wantagh State Parkway and Ocean Parkway .The park is renowned for...

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