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The parts closest to Garden City tend to be the worst and most crime-ridden/hoodraty (except for Cathedral Gardens). The rest of it is like Uniondale which is a step up though nothing spectacular
It's a shame b/c a lot of Hempstead actually has beautiful historic houses/tudors..
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I'm reading a lot of the posts on here and just shaking my head. I'm very familiar with Hempstead for a variety of reasons, and I've seen it evolve over the past 30+ years.
Yes, it's dangerous. It's the same demographic as, say, Compton and other places mentioned. The per capita income of the town may be increased by areas like Cathedral Gardens, but ask yourself this: Do people in Cathedral Gardens send their kids to Hempstead public schools? No, they do not. They send them to private and Catholic schools because Cathedral Gardens is primarily a white neighborhood, and there are few, if any, white students in the Hempstead school system--and if you've been reading Newsday lately, you know that Hempstead High School is in the bottom 2% of schools in the state in terms of performance.
I really, really, really hate stereotyping, but I hate political correctness even worse. The rest of Hempstead is, again, the same demographic as any urban neighborhood we'd classify as a "ghetto." Yes, there are beautiful old homes throughout the village, but they're mostly rentals, split into illegal apartments, and they're in a state of deterioration.
Thanks to the efforts of the Nassau County DA's office, a few areas in the village have been "cleaned up," i.e. the Terrace Ave. area, but if we're talking about whether Hempstead is truly unsafe as compared with places like Detroit and South Los Angeles, we need to remember that it's surrounded by affluent areas, it has a large, active, aggressive police department--next to a town (Garden City) that also has a VERY proactive and aggressive police department--and it's located in a county where (this is sarcasm) walking on the wrong side of the street can earn you significant prison time.
For anyone who claims that Hempstead is "average" or "safe," I challenge you to walk around there at night, or to live there. You wouldn't want to.
The Hempstead violent crime rate is 351% greater than the New York average and 172% greater than the national average.
Crimes per square mile in Hempstead is 409 in the state of N.Y. is 175 and the National average is 49
It has a Crime Index of 38 my town 95 out of 100 being the safest.
Before you move there or any other place for that matter...one should check out the local high school. It could tell you a lot .....
Hempstead is one of the least desirable towns to live in on the Island period end of story.
Look at all the ex-LI'ers who moved south. The area crime stats are horrible. Really has no reflection on where they live. Just stats for other reasons.
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my town 95 out of 100 being the safest.
