516 Area Code: Hempstead, New York

Nassau County on western Long Island is served by the 516 area code, with Hempstead as the primary city in the directory's records. Hempstead sits in the central part of Nassau County, organized around a downtown core, Hofstra University immediately to the south, and a long-standing role as a regional commercial center for inner Long Island. The 516 footprint covers Nassau County in its entirety, taking in Garden City, Mineola, Levittown, Hicksville, the Five Towns, Glen Cove, and the cluster of incorporated villages and unincorporated communities that fill out the western half of Long Island.

Records linked to 516 numbers in the directory often include other New York cities — Albany, Binghamton, Brentwood, and Buffalo among them. None of those are inside the 516 footprint. The pattern reflects standard public-record dynamics, with phone numbers porting across New York and addresses linked across multiple cities. The directory currently documents 634 distinct prefixes within 516 in detail, a working subset of the prefix population the code carries.

Hempstead's home values come in well above the US median, in line with broader Long Island pricing pressure that has reshaped the region's housing market over the past several decades. Median household income runs above the national reading, the city's median age sits a touch under the US figure, and population places the broader Town of Hempstead among the larger municipal jurisdictions in the country, even as the village itself is modest. The 516 footprint as a whole reflects an unusually high overall demographic profile relative to most of the country.