Albany, NY has a F safety grade (5/100) with a violent crime rate of 817 per 100,000, 132% above the national average.
At 102,095 residents, Albany is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against NY and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Albany, NY carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 132% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Albany, NY shows violent crime at 816.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,848.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 132% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
The verdict
Albany earns an F safety grade: violent crime runs 132% above the U.S. average, placing it among the highest-crime cities in the country.
Position in the state cohort
At 816.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Albany ranks 3 of 326 — above 323 of the 325 other New York cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +1251.9% against the cohort median of 60.4. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Albany's 816.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Liberty Village (793.5), Syracuse (765.3), Buffalo (706.2), New York (671.0). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 22.3% of the 3,742 Part I offenses reported in Albany for 2024, against a median of 6.8% across comparable New York cities — a gap of 15.5 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 902.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 816.9 in 2024 (-9.5%). The highest observed value was 996.8 in 2023 and the lowest 816.9 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Albany's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 2,908 | 2848.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 2,298 | 2250.8 |
| Burglary | 319 | 312.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 291 | 285 |
| Arson | 28 | 27.4 |
| Violent Crime | 834 | 816.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 568 | 556.3 |
| Robbery | 183 | 179.2 |
| Rape | 74 | 72.5 |
| Murder | 9 | 8.8 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 96,318 | 902.2 | 2773.1 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 95,201 | 903.4 | 3036.7 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 98,104 | 973.5 | 3905 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 101,930 | 996.8 | 3533.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 102,095 | 816.9 | 2848.3 |
Albany's crime figures on this page originate from Albany Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New York cities closest to Albany in population. Their populations run from 70,390 to 126,184, against 102,095 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
These New York cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Albany's 816.9/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Large-city read: Albany's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Large-city rate methodology for how Albany's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Albany, NY rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Albany is scored here as a large city UCR reporter (102,095 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.