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Woodmere is an unincorporated hamlet and census-designated place in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, on Long Island's South Shore - it has no village government of its own.

Woodmere is one of the Five Towns of southwestern Nassau County, together with Lawrence, Cedarhurst, Inwood and the Hewletts.

Woodmere had a population of 18,669 at the 2020 census, spread over about 2.6 square miles of land.

Woodmere has about 5,100 households according to Census Bureau figures for 2020-2024, with a large average household size of 3.47 people and a median owner-occupied home value of about $975,400.

The South Side Railroad reached the area in 1869, and one of its early stations was called Wood's Station, after developer Samuel Wood, who helped lay out a planned residential and resort community with partner Robert Burton.

Woodmere twice considered incorporating as a village, in 1910 and again in 1978, but both attempts failed, so it remains an unincorporated hamlet governed by the Town of Hempstead.

Woodmere has become home to many Modern Orthodox and Orthodox Jewish families, who have established a number of synagogues in Woodmere and throughout the Five Towns.

The Woodmere Club, established on the site in 1910, covers roughly 112 acres with an 18-hole golf course that also extends into the villages of Woodsburgh and Lawrence.

Lawrence Woodmere Academy, an independent preparatory school on Woodmere Boulevard, was created by the 1990 merger of Woodmere Academy, founded in 1912, and Lawrence Country Day School, founded in 1891.

Woodmere is served by the Woodmere station on the Long Island Rail Road's Far Rockaway Branch, linking the hamlet to Penn Station in Manhattan.