Rockville Centre is an incorporated village located in Nassau County, New York. It is in the southwestern section of the Town of Hempstead. The hamlet was named “Rockville Centre” in 1849, after local Methodist preacher and community leader Mordecai “Rock” Smith. It was incorporated as a village in 1893. Rockville Centre emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as a commuter community connected to New York by the Long Island Rail Road. In 1915, the New York Tribune went so far as to declare that Rockville Centre was a place in which “the average mortal could live happily.”
Population: 24,023
Zip Code: 11570
Area Code: 516
Elevation: 30′
Rockville Centre Public Library
Rockville Centre School District
Rockville Centre Chamber of Commerce
