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The town has 36,821 residents and lies in New York. Home to 17 notable people.
East Meadow’s typical rent is $2,890 a month, above both New York’s towns ($1,101 a month) and U.S. towns ($1,185 a month). 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.
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 →Where East Meadow’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Ordered by what stands out in East Meadow.
Among households in East Meadow, 90% live in a home they own. Typical home values rose 6.7% in the year to September 2026. Also worth knowing: homes sold in East Meadow spent a median 24 days on the market.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
49 flood insurance claims have been paid in East Meadow since 1978. Compared with 86% of U.S. communities, expected storm and flood damage locally is lower. Of the losses FEMA expects in the town, 61% come from inland flooding and 12% from hurricanes.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Across 5 parks and preserves: 5.3 miles of trail. The concentration of trails for East Meadow comes to 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
In East Meadow, the typical journey to work is 35 minutes. Most people who work leave East Meadow to do it: just 7% work in town. Between 2013 and 2023, jobs in East Meadow dropped by 2,140, to 10,496. For residents in the town, the share who live below the poverty line is 6.4%.
| 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
The town’s July high comes in at 85°F.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
This New York town does better than the New York average on 17 of 32 CDC measures and worse on 1. In East Meadow, 8.7% of adults smoke cigarettes.
| 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
A bachelor’s degree or higher: nearly half of adults 25 and older, vs 40% across New York. Age groups here sit within 4 points of the New York average. 22% of East Meadow residents are 65 or older.
| 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
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around East Meadow. Close and well known come first.
Big draw22 mi City parkCentral 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.
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 →
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