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A town of 36,821. Home to 17 notable people.
East Meadow’s median rent is $2,890 a month, above both New York’s towns ($1,101 a month) and U.S. towns ($1,185 a month). 25% of the land in East Meadow is conserved, where New York’s towns sit at 5.2% and U.S. towns at 4.3%. The biggest place to walk is Eisenhower Park, 913 acres with 4.7 miles of trail. We don’t grade East Meadow yet; the figures below are still real.
Where East Meadow beats most towns.
Where East Meadow’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Census counts: 37,461 in 2000, 37,796 in 2020. The archive holds 18 old photos and papers going back to 1917 and 7 maps from 1897 on.
Explore the history →Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around East Meadow. Close and well known come first.
Big draw22 mi GardenCentral Park40.0M visitors a year
Big draw23 mi Stadium & arenaMadison Square Garden
Big draw23 mi TheatreStudio 54
Big draw22 mi MuseumMetropolitan Museum of Art2.0M visitors a year
Big draw28 mi Stadium & arenaMetLife Stadium
Big draw21 mi Stadium & arenaYankee StadiumCentral Park: Ed Yourdon from New York City, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Madison Square Garden: Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA, CC BY 2.0 · Studio 54: Americasroof (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Metropolitan Museum of Art: Hugo Schneider, CC BY-SA 2.0 · MetLife Stadium: babyknight, CC BY 2.0 · Yankee Stadium: Matt Boulton, CC BY-SA 2.0
East Meadow is unincorporated, so Nassau County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Aug 3, 2026.
Ordered by what stands out in East Meadow.
The typical East Meadow home is worth about $814,000, up 6.7% in a year, 55% above the New York typical home. 90% of households own their home in East Meadow.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 86% of U.S. communities. Since 1978, 49 flood insurance claims have been paid out in East Meadow.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
5.3 miles of trail in 5 parks and preserves. The trail density in East Meadow is 0.8 miles per square mile.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Eisenhower Park | 4.7 mi | 913 |
| 2. Speno Memorial Park | 0.3 mi | 19 |
| 3. East Meadow Baseball Complex | — | 13 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Most working residents leave East Meadow for work: only 7% work in town. East Meadow’s average trip to work is 35 minutes. Since 2013, East Meadow has lost 2,140 jobs, to 10,496 in 2023.
| East Meadow | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 35 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $134,000 | $82,000 | $80,000 |
| Work from home | 15% | 12% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 6.4% | 9.5% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
East Meadow has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 85°, January nights drop to 25° and about 19 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
14% of East Meadow adults have been diagnosed with depression. East Meadow beats the New York average on 17 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 27% of East Meadow adults have obesity.
| East Meadow | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 21% | 23% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 16% | 17% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 8.7% | 13% | 14% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 33% | 35% |
| What stands out | East Meadow | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 6.9% | 12.8% |
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 5.1% | 8.2% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.2% | 7.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
No broad age group is more than 4 points off the New York average. 49% of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or more, vs 40% across New York.
| East Meadow | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 49% | 32% | 29% |
| Aged 65 or older | 22% | 20% | 18% |
| Under 18 | 20% | 20% | 22% |
| Median age | 43.1 years | 43 years | 40.5 years |
53% women, 47% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±3.3 points. Across New York, 51.2% of residents are women.
| East Meadow | NY | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 10.9% | 11% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 8.7% | 9.5% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 8.8% | 8.9% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 11.7% | 14.2% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 12.3% | 13% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 12.2% | 12.2% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 13.5% | 13.3% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 12% | 10.3% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 9.8% | 7.6% | 7% |
| No diploma | 6.4% | 12% | 10.4% |
| High school | 25% | 24.3% | 26% |
| Some college | 10.7% | 14.6% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 9.3% | 8.8% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 26.5% | 22.4% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 22% | 17.9% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
27 within 15 miles of the center of East Meadow
About 8 of every 100 East Meadow residents are enrolled in college, about the same as New York.
17 notable people were born in East Meadow.
Hamlet and census-designated place in New York, United States
East Meadow is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) within the Town of Hempstead in the central portion of Nassau County, on Long Island, in New York, United States. The population was 37,796 at the time of the 2020 census. Many of the hamlet's residents commute to Manhattan, located approximately 30 miles (48 km) to the west.
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7 towns share a border with East Meadow.
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Meadow | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Salisbury | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Uniondale | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| North Bellmore | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Levittown | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| North Merrick | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| North Wantagh | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Westbury | #167 | A− | D | — | B | A |
Westbury reports no FBI crime data of its own. East Meadow, Salisbury, Uniondale, North Bellmore, Levittown, North Merrick and North Wantagh aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare East Meadow with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
We don’t grade East Meadow yet; the figures below are still real.
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