Abstract: Objective: To investigate the current status of community nursing human resources among 45 community nursing centers in Pudong New Area in Shanghai in 2013, to provide reference of optimizing the allocation of community nursing for health administrative departments. Method: We analyzed the basic human resoures data using descriptive analysis, variance test, LSD, DunnettT 3 , nonparametric rank sum test statistics and the chi square test. Results: The overall nursing allocation level in Pudong New Area community was low. The nurses in rural, suburban nurses tended to be young. The nurses with high educational background and professional title were scarce, especially in rural and suburban areas. There were a large percentage of contract nurses. The overall per capita service community population was lower than the standard allocation. There was large difference of the per capita service area in different area, and the rural service area was 7.68 times of the urban area. Conclusion:The administrative health department of Pudong New Area should provide security from policy making, practical application,and future planning, to promote sustainable development and progress for the community nursing resources and to provide accessible and high quality care for community residents.