Long Island Towns

Local accident data, dangerous roads, and safety resources for every town and village in Nassau and Suffolk County.

village

Atlantic Beach

A five-block-wide barrier-island village where every street dead-ends at either the ocean or Reynolds Channel.

5 incident reports on file

Park StreetOcean BoulevardAtlantic Beach Bridge
hamlet

Baldwin

Sunrise Highway main-street suburb working through a long-promised downtown revival between Freeport and Rockville Centre.

14 incident reports on file

Sunrise HighwayMerrick RoadGrand Avenue
hamlet

Bellmore

South Shore hamlet of bagel runs and LIRR commutes whose summer Friday night street fair is a Nassau institution.

5 incident reports on file

Sunrise HighwayMerrick RoadNewbridge Road
hamlet

Bethpage

Grumman built the lunar module here; today it's the Black Course, ballfields, and some of Nassau's most loyal hometown pride.

12 incident reports on file

Hempstead TurnpikeSeaford-Oyster Bay ExpresswayBethpage State Parkway
hamlet

Carle Place

A one-square-mile hamlet that punches far above its weight in retail — the Roosevelt Field orbit's small-town survivor.

4 incident reports on file

Old Country RoadGlen Cove RoadWestbury Avenue
village

Cedarhurst

The commercial heart of the Five Towns, with a walkable Central Avenue shopping strip that rivals any in Nassau.

1 incident report on file

Central AvenueRockaway TurnpikeBroadway
hamlet

East Meadow

Eisenhower Park's hometown — 939 acres of public green space wrapped in classic postwar Levitt-era suburbia.

15 incident reports on file

Hempstead TurnpikeMeadowbrook ParkwaySouthern State Parkway
village

East Rockaway

A old mill village on the Mill River where Main Street still bends like the 1800s and boats outnumber commuters.

2 incident reports on file

Atlantic AvenueOcean AvenueMain Street
hamlet

Elmont

Belmont Park and UBS Arena put Elmont on the map; its Caribbean and Latin food along Hempstead Turnpike keeps it there.

8 incident reports on file

Hempstead TurnpikeCross Island ParkwayElmont Road
village

Farmingdale

A genuine walkable Main Street — craft bars, the LIRR, and Republic Airport — that became Nassau's young-crowd downtown.

18 incident reports on file

Route 110Southern State ParkwayConklin Street
village

Floral Park

A tidy village of Tudors on the Queens line that feels like the city's last stop and the suburbs' first breath.

2 incident reports on file

Jericho TurnpikeCross Island ParkwayHillside Avenue
hamlet

Franklin Square

An unincorporated crossroads of pizzerias, delis, and Hempstead Turnpike hustle that's Nassau at its most unpretentious.

5 incident reports on file

Hempstead TurnpikeFranklin AvenueDogwood Avenue
village

Freeport

The Nautical Mile — charter boats, waterfront seafood shacks, and a working harbor that turns electric on summer nights.

16 incident reports on file

Southern State ParkwayMeadowbrook ParkwayHempstead Turnpike
village

Garden City

Stewart Avenue mansions, the Roosevelt Field shopping colossus, and the cathedral spire of one of America's first planned villages.

11 incident reports on file

Meadowbrook ParkwayHempstead TurnpikeLIE
city

Glen Cove

A North Shore city with Gold Coast mansion ruins, a working waterfront, and Morgan Park sunsets over Hempstead Harbor.

18 incident reports on file

Glen Cove RoadForest AvenueBrewster Street
village

Great Neck

Fitzgerald's West Egg — a peninsula of old money, new money, and one of the LIRR's fastest rides to Manhattan.

9 incident reports on file

Northern BoulevardLIEGrand Central Parkway
village

Hempstead

Nassau's biggest, busiest hub — Hofstra, the county seat's courthouses, and a transit center the whole island moves through.

198 incident reports on file

Hempstead TurnpikeSouthern State ParkwayMeadowbrook Parkway
hamlet

Hicksville

The crossroads of Nassau — LIRR's busiest branch hub, Broadway's Little India, and every parkway within ten minutes.

31 incident reports on file

LIERoute 25 Jericho TurnpikeSeaford Oyster Bay Expressway
hamlet

Inwood

The Five Towns' working waterfront corner, tucked between JFK's flight path and the marshes of Jamaica Bay.

4 incident reports on file

Nassau ExpresswayRockaway TurnpikeSheridan Boulevard
hamlet

Jericho

Quaker roots, top-ranked schools, and the LIE/Northern State interchange that makes it Nassau's commuter chessboard center.

40 incident reports on file

Long Island ExpresswayNorthern State ParkwayJericho Turnpike
village

Lawrence

The grandest of the Five Towns — estate streets sloping to Atlantic Beach Bridge and old-school country-club quiet.

9 incident reports on file

Nassau ExpresswayRockaway TurnpikeCentral Avenue
hamlet

Levittown

The original postwar American suburb — 17,000 Cape Cods that invented modern Long Island in 1947.

5 incident reports on file

Hempstead TurnpikeLIENorthern State Parkway
city

Long Beach

The City by the Sea — a real boardwalk, real surf culture, and apartment-tower density no other Nassau beach town has.

8 incident reports on file

Southern State ParkwayMeadowbrook ParkwayWantagh Parkway
village

Lynbrook

A railroad village whose name is Brooklyn scrambled — five LIRR grade crossings and a downtown that never quite sleeps.

1 incident report on file

Sunrise HighwayMerrick RoadPeninsula Boulevard
village

Malverne

A storybook quarter-square-mile village of gaslight-style lamps and Victorian charm hiding inside the West Hempstead branch.

4 incident reports on file

Hempstead AvenueOcean AvenueHempstead Turnpike
hamlet

Manhasset

Miracle Mile luxury retail, lacrosse dynasties, and harbor-view streets that define North Shore polish.

3 incident reports on file

Northern BoulevardLIEShelter Rock Road
hamlet

Massapequa

South Shore big-hair royalty — the Baldwin brothers, Jerry Seinfeld, and a Sunrise Highway strip that runs forever.

24 incident reports on file

Sunrise HighwaySouthern State ParkwayWantagh Parkway
hamlet

Merrick

Tree-lined South Shore commuter haven where the WPA-era LIRR station anchors a tight, coffee-fueled downtown.

17 incident reports on file

Sunrise HighwayMerrick RoadMeadowbrook State Parkway
village

Mineola

Nassau's county seat — courthouses, NYU Langone's hospital towers, and a Portuguese food scene worth the trip alone.

10 incident reports on file

Meadowbrook ParkwayLIEHempstead Turnpike
village

New Hyde Park

The borderline suburb where Queens ends and Nassau begins, anchored by LIJ's medical campus and old-world bakeries.

16 incident reports on file

Jericho TurnpikeHillside AvenueNew Hyde Park Road
hamlet

North Valley Stream

A quiet unincorporated stretch of split-levels between the Cross Island and Green Acres, more neighborhood than destination.

2 incident reports on file

Dutch BroadwayElmont RoadLinden Boulevard
hamlet

Oceanside

One of New York's biggest unincorporated hamlets — diners, ballfields, and marsh-edge streets running to Island Park.

11 incident reports on file

Sunrise HighwayLong Beach RoadAtlantic Avenue
village

Old Westbury

Gatsby country that never ended — gated estates, Old Westbury Gardens, and polo fields behind centuries-old stone walls.

1 incident report on file

Long Island ExpresswayNorthern State ParkwayJericho Turnpike
hamlet

Oyster Bay

Teddy Roosevelt's Sagamore Hill, a deepwater harbor of sailboats, and a Main Street that still feels like 1905.

85 incident reports on file

Route 25ASeaford-Oyster Bay ExpresswaySouth Street
hamlet

Plainview

Mid-island family suburbia at its most complete — pools, parkways, and the Plainview shopping corridors of Old Country Road.

3 incident reports on file

LIENorthern State ParkwayOld Country Road
hamlet

Port Washington

A sailing town at the end of its own LIRR branch — Main Street runs straight down to the town dock and Manhasset Bay.

3 incident reports on file

Northern BoulevardPort Washington BoulevardShore Road
village

Rockville Centre

Nassau's nightlife downtown — its own power grid, its own vibe, and more bars per block than anywhere on the South Shore.

10 incident reports on file

Sunrise HighwayMerrick RoadLong Beach Road
village

Roslyn

A clock-tower village on a duck pond, with Gold Coast history and one of the most photographed main streets on the island.

2 incident reports on file

Northern BoulevardOld Northern BoulevardRoslyn Road
hamlet

Seaford

Where the Wantagh and Sunrise cross — a fishing-village-turned-suburb that still launches boats from Seamans Neck.

7 incident reports on file

Seaford-Oyster Bay ExpresswaySunrise HighwayMerrick Road
hamlet

Syosset

North Shore commuter heartland — top schools, the Syosset LIRR lot at dawn, and Jericho Turnpike's endless food crawl.

8 incident reports on file

LIEJericho TurnpikeWoodbury Road
village

Valley Stream

Green Acres Mall, the Queens border, and one of Nassau's most diverse and densely woven communities.

23 incident reports on file

Southern State ParkwayLIESunrise Highway
hamlet

Wantagh

The Gateway to Jones Beach — the parkway, the bandshell crowds, and a mural-painted Main Street under the LIRR trestle.

33 incident reports on file

Wantagh ParkwaySunrise HighwaySouthern State Parkway
hamlet

West Hempstead

Hall's Pond, the Cathedral Gardens grid, and a low-key hamlet rhythm a block off the Hempstead bustle.

7 incident reports on file

Hempstead TurnpikeHempstead AvenueNassau Boulevard
village

Westbury

A crossroads of cultures and concerts — the Space at Westbury, Old Country Road retail, and quick LIE access.

21 incident reports on file

Northern State ParkwayOld Country RoadPost Avenue
hamlet

Woodbury

Estate-lot quiet between the LIE and Jericho Turnpike — Syosset schools, corporate campuses, and deep North Shore green.

4 incident reports on file

Long Island ExpresswaySeaford-Oyster Bay ExpresswayJericho Turnpike
hamlet

Woodmere

The Five Towns' residential core — tree-arched streets, kosher dining rows, and the Woodmere Club's contested green acres.

4 incident reports on file

Rockaway TurnpikeBroadwayPeninsula Boulevard

Long Island Town Fact Book: compare every community

Official figures for all 109 communities: 2020 Census population, traffic deaths from the federal Fatality Analysis Reporting System (2010–2024), and commuting estimates from the American Community Survey (2020–2024). Select a column heading to sort.

Crashes are counted where they happen, not where the people involved live, so communities crossed by an expressway or parkway record deaths that have little to do with their own streets — the "on local roads" column removes those. This table is not a safety ranking. Sources, method and limits · Download every crash record (CSV)

Amityville Suffolk village 9,500 16 16 8 30.7 14.8% —
Atlantic Beach Nassau village 1,707 2 2 1 44.5 32.3% 9.4%
Babylon Suffolk town 218,223 304 270 108 31 15.2% 4.3%
Baldwin Nassau hamlet 33,919 18 17 5 39.5 27.6% 5.8%
Bay Shore Suffolk hamlet 29,244 40 31 12 26.4 9.3% 1.9%
Bayport Suffolk hamlet 8,609 4 4 0 30.2 12% —
Bellmore Nassau hamlet 16,297 13 13 4 34.1 19% 6.3%
Bethpage Nassau hamlet 16,658 18 16 3 32.8 20% 6.7%
Bohemia Suffolk hamlet 9,852 30 30 12 27.9 12.7% —
Brentwood Suffolk hamlet 62,387 90 83 35 — — —
Brookhaven Suffolk town 485,773 653 619 172 32.3 14.7% 2.4%
Carle Place Nassau hamlet 5,005 13 10 6 28.8 16% 8.5%
Cedarhurst Nassau village 7,374 4 4 2 33.7 18.3% —
Centereach Suffolk hamlet 30,980 27 27 5 31.9 17.8% 0.9%
Central Islip Suffolk hamlet 36,714 48 48 27 27.3 7.5% 2.1%
Commack Suffolk hamlet 36,536 58 45 11 33.1 15.1% 4.2%
Copiague Suffolk hamlet 23,429 35 35 20 31 16.5% 2.6%
Coram Suffolk hamlet 40,220 58 58 23 33.7 14.8% 2.1%
Cutchogue Suffolk hamlet 3,437 12 12 3 31.2 20.2% —
Deer Park Suffolk hamlet 28,837 25 25 13 29.9 14.2% 6.3%
Dix Hills Suffolk hamlet 26,180 27 18 7 36.8 17% 5.1%
East Hampton Suffolk town 28,385 31 31 7 21.9 5.6% —
East Islip Suffolk hamlet 13,931 11 11 3 30 11.4% —
East Meadow Nassau hamlet 37,796 33 26 8 35 21.8% 4.3%
East Rockaway Nassau village 10,159 4 4 2 38.5 25.2% —
Elmont Nassau hamlet 35,265 16 16 7 40.4 25.1% 1.1%
Elwood Suffolk hamlet 11,426 15 15 3 42.3 24.7% 7.8%
Farmingdale Nassau village 8,466 16 16 3 30.7 20.4% 9.7%
Farmingville Suffolk hamlet 14,983 19 19 7 32.2 16.2% 5%
Flanders Suffolk hamlet 5,098 18 18 3 33.6 18.1% —
Floral Park Nassau village 16,172 3 3 0 32.9 18.2% 5.9%
Franklin Square Nassau hamlet 30,903 18 16 10 34.6 19.1% 4.8%
Freeport Nassau village 44,472 46 40 24 35.8 21.3% 4.6%
Garden City Nassau village 23,272 14 14 2 34.9 27.5% 14.2%
Glen Cove Nassau city 28,365 9 9 5 29.4 16.4% 4.3%
Great Neck Nassau village 11,145 2 2 2 38.8 32.6% 19.7%
Greenlawn Suffolk hamlet 13,661 11 11 3 35.5 20.8% —
Hampton Bays Suffolk hamlet 15,228 16 16 7 34.2 17.5% —
Hauppauge Suffolk hamlet 20,083 28 25 5 29.4 13.3% 4%
Hempstead Nassau village 59,169 86 86 48 33.3 15.9% 2%
Hicksville Nassau hamlet 43,869 46 43 16 33.5 19.9% 7.4%
Holbrook Suffolk hamlet 26,487 25 25 6 34.1 18.3% 3.1%
Holtsville Suffolk hamlet 18,937 35 28 8 32.9 15.3% 5.6%
Huntington Suffolk town 204,127 200 165 64 35.2 18.5% 6.9%
Huntington Station Suffolk hamlet 34,878 23 23 17 31.2 13.6% 6.5%
Inwood Nassau hamlet 11,340 13 13 6 35.1 23.2% —
Islip Suffolk town 339,938 455 385 152 28.3 10.7% 2.2%
Jericho Nassau hamlet 14,808 23 13 4 40.8 29.8% 10.2%
Kings Park Suffolk hamlet 17,085 7 7 2 36.9 18.5% 7.6%
Lake Ronkonkoma Suffolk hamlet 18,619 19 13 8 28.3 11.8% 3.5%
Lawrence Nassau village 6,809 5 5 3 38.8 28% —
Levittown Nassau hamlet 51,758 29 24 13 33.5 17% 6.2%
Lindenhurst Suffolk village 27,148 27 27 13 32.2 15.9% 4.9%
Long Beach Nassau city 35,029 14 14 10 41.3 27.4% 11%
Lynbrook Nassau village 20,438 16 16 6 35.2 22.2% 7.5%
Malverne Nassau village 8,560 3 2 3 33.3 19.3% —
Manhasset Nassau hamlet 8,176 7 7 2 33.9 25% 15%
Manorville Suffolk hamlet 14,317 41 31 3 32.1 11.5% —
Massapequa Nassau hamlet 21,355 14 14 8 37.1 23.8% 7.5%
Mastic Suffolk hamlet 15,404 16 16 6 33 14.3% —
Mastic Beach Suffolk hamlet 14,199 9 9 3 36.8 16.7% —
Medford Suffolk hamlet 24,247 24 19 4 32.3 17% —
Melville Suffolk hamlet 19,284 43 23 10 33.3 18% 4.5%
Merrick Nassau hamlet 22,040 15 10 5 38.5 23.9% 7.9%
Miller Place Suffolk hamlet 11,723 10 10 2 32.7 14.1% —
Mineola Nassau village 20,800 12 12 5 32.1 19.9% 7.4%
Montauk Suffolk hamlet 4,318 6 6 2 23 — —
Mount Sinai Suffolk hamlet 11,623 20 20 1 37.3 20.8% —
New Hyde Park Nassau village 10,257 11 11 4 37.9 25.7% 7.1%
North Amityville Suffolk hamlet 18,643 22 22 10 28.4 14.7% 3%
North Babylon Suffolk hamlet 17,927 24 13 6 34.6 15.7% 4.9%
North Valley Stream Nassau hamlet 18,197 27 9 5 41.8 24.3% —
Northport Suffolk village 7,347 2 2 1 34 20.1% —
Oceanside Nassau hamlet 32,637 16 16 6 36.3 24.1% 9.4%
Old Westbury Nassau village 4,289 23 10 5 33.5 27.5% 7.4%
Oyster Bay Nassau hamlet 7,049 9 9 3 26.8 12.3% —
Patchogue Suffolk village 12,408 12 12 6 32.4 13.9% —
Peconic Suffolk hamlet 692 1 1 1 — — —
Plainview Nassau hamlet 27,100 27 13 5 35.3 23.5% 7.9%
Port Jefferson Suffolk village 7,962 5 5 1 30.2 12.5% 3.9%
Port Jefferson Station Suffolk hamlet 7,950 9 9 5 29.7 16% —
Port Washington Nassau hamlet 16,753 5 5 2 35.4 24.8% 15%
Riverhead Suffolk town 35,902 67 64 17 27.5 10.5% —
Rockville Centre Nassau village 26,016 13 13 8 37.3 26.9% 11%
Rocky Point Suffolk hamlet 13,633 20 20 2 36.3 17.7% —
Ronkonkoma Suffolk hamlet 18,955 32 31 10 32.1 18.5% 3.2%
Roslyn Nassau village 2,988 3 3 0 30.4 — —
Sag Harbor Suffolk village 2,772 1 1 0 18.2 — —
Sayville Suffolk hamlet 16,569 19 19 7 29.1 9.8% —
Seaford Nassau hamlet 15,251 8 7 4 38.4 26.9% 10.6%
Selden Suffolk hamlet 21,262 20 20 9 30.3 12.2% —
Setauket Suffolk hamlet 3,986 0 0 0 25.5 6.1% —
Shelter Island Suffolk town 3,253 2 2 0 — — —
Shirley Suffolk hamlet 26,360 44 43 17 33.2 14.2% —
Smithtown Suffolk town 116,296 118 104 24 32.2 15.3% 4.1%
Southampton Suffolk village 4,550 6 6 1 22.2 8.5% —
Stony Brook Suffolk hamlet 13,467 5 5 3 29.7 14.2% —
Syosset Nassau hamlet 19,259 12 9 3 40.9 30.6% 12.7%
Valley Stream Nassau village 40,634 18 18 7 40.7 25.9% 8.6%
Wading River Suffolk hamlet 7,731 10 10 2 32.7 11.6% —
Wantagh Nassau hamlet 18,613 16 9 3 34 19.6% 8.8%
Water Mill Suffolk hamlet 2,506 7 7 2 18.6 — —
West Babylon Suffolk hamlet 43,213 56 48 12 31.2 16.3% 3.5%
West Hempstead Nassau hamlet 19,835 18 16 7 35.6 21.7% 4.1%
West Islip Suffolk hamlet 27,048 35 18 6 30.2 13% 3.6%
Westbury Nassau village 15,864 18 11 2 29.1 13.6% 5.2%
Woodbury Nassau hamlet 9,335 17 9 3 34.9 19.9% 9.8%
Woodmere Nassau hamlet 18,669 10 10 3 41.5 29.5% 10.4%
Wyandanch Suffolk hamlet 12,990 18 18 5 — — —

— means the Census Bureau's estimate is unpublished or too imprecise to report (coefficient of variation above 30%). Town rows include the villages and hamlets inside them.