Hempstead, New York

Hempstead population, 2020 to 2024

Hempstead added 698 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.2%. In the latest year it moved by +1,161. Among 170 New York places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 39th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in New York has 10,324 people, so Hempstead is 5.8 times that size.

Hempstead covers 3.69 square miles of land, for 16,143 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Hempstead is denser than the typical town.

What county Hempstead is in

All of Hempstead's residents live in Nassau County, which had 1,392,438 residents in 2024. Hempstead holds 4.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Hempstead

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Hempstead by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 11550. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a village that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Hempstead is

The Census internal point of Hempstead is at 40.704400, -73.619400. Albany, the capital, is 134.8 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is New York, NY (8,478,072 people), 17.0 miles away.

Daylight in Hempstead

At 40.70° N, Hempstead gets about 15 h 06 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 15 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 50 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Hempstead

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Garden City, 2.0 miles away, with 22,993 people.