Amherst Town, NY has a B safety grade (72/100) with a violent crime rate of 104 per 100,000, 71% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Amherst Town, NY Crime Rate & Safety
At 126,184 residents, Amherst Town 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.
Amherst Town, NY carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 71% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Amherst Town, NY shows violent crime at 103.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,058.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 71% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
B safety grade
103.8/100K violent
2058.1/100K property
-71% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Amherst Town, NY
Comparable rate records
Amherst Town's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New York cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Amherst Town's 103.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are New Hartford Town and Village (102.2), Blooming Grove Town (102.1), Alfred Village (106.2), Catskill Village (106.6). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Amherst Town sits mid-pack among comparable New York cities
At 103.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Amherst Town ranks 113 of 326 — above 213 of the 325 other New York cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +71.8% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 126.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 103.8 in 2024 (-17.7%). The highest observed value was 156.2 in 2022 and the lowest 103.8 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Amherst Town'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.
Amherst Town's 2024 municipal footprint
Amherst Town's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (80% of 2,728 offenses; mix index 6,516).
Violent offenses are only 5% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (when validated); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-33.1%
155.2 → 103.8/100K
Property Crime Rate
+2.4%
2009.6 → 2058.1/100K
Property offenses lead Amherst Town's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs NY
vs US avg
Property Crime
2,597
2058.1
1661.2
1711
Larceny-Theft
2,175
1723.7
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
306
242.5
-
-
Burglary
116
91.9
-
-
Arson
3
2.4
-
-
Violent Crime
131
103.8
380
352
Aggravated Assault
106
84
-
-
Robbery
14
11.1
-
-
Rape
11
8.7
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Amherst Town Crime Trend (2020-2024)
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Amherst Town property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Amherst Town Police Department
Reporting agency for Amherst Town NIBRS-participating
Amherst Town Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Amherst Town's 2,728 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
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.
Similar-Size Cities in New York
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Amherst Town at 103.8/100K violent and 2,058.1/100K property - matched below outside New York (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Amherst Town reported 131 violent crimes and 2,597 property crimes, for a total of 2,728 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Amherst Town?
From 2023 to 2024, Amherst Town's violent crime rate decreased by 33.1%, and the property crime rate increased by 2.4%.
What is the most common crime in Amherst Town?
The most common crime type in Amherst Town is larceny-theft, accounting for 79.7% of all reported crimes (2,175 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Amherst Town'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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Amherst Town, NY rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.