Auburn, NY is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 30% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Auburn, NY shows violent crime at 245.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,342.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 30% 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
245.1/100K violent
1342.5/100K property
-30% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Auburn, NY
Comparable rate records
Auburn's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New York cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Auburn's 245.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Canandaigua (248.5), Gloversville (250.6), Rome (237.5), Blasdell Village (236.9). 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
Auburn reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable New York cities
At 245.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Auburn ranks 47 of 326 — above 279 of the 325 other New York cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +305.7% 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 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 392.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 245.1 in 2024 (-37.5%). The highest observed value was 454.8 in 2023 and the lowest 245.1 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 15.4% of the 408 Part I offenses reported in Auburn for 2024, against a median of 6.8% across comparable New York cities — a gap of 8.7 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.
Property counts dominate Auburn'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Auburn's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 8.3 Census sq mi, Auburn logged 41.4 property and 7.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Auburn's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (74% of 408 offenses; mix index 5,640).
Violent offenses are 15% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (8.3 sq mi); 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
-46.1%
454.8 → 245.1/100K
Property Crime Rate
-39.1%
2204.3 → 1342.5/100K
Property offenses lead Auburn's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs NY
Property Crime
345
1342.5
1711
1661.2
Larceny-Theft
301
1171.3
-
-
Burglary
29
112.8
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
15
58.4
-
-
Arson
2
7.8
-
-
Violent Crime
63
245.1
352
380
Aggravated Assault
45
175.1
-
-
Rape
13
50.6
-
-
Robbery
5
19.5
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Auburn Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Auburn property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
Auburn: 245 violent, 1343 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Peekskill: 208 violent, 973 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Rockville Centre Village: 24 violent, 471 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Elmira: 547 violent, 4137 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Camillus Town and Village: 52 violent, 753 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Manlius Town: 48 violent, 1253 property per 100,000 (grade A)
DeWitt Town: 212 violent, 3548 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Watertown: 599 violent, 3929 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Niskayuna Town: 84 violent, 2114 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Auburn Police Department
Reporting agency for Auburn NIBRS-participating
Auburn Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Auburn's 408 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
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
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New York cities closest to Auburn in population. Their populations run from 23,797 to 26,130, against 25,699 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Auburn reported 63 violent crimes and 345 property crimes, for a total of 408 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Auburn?
From 2023 to 2024, Auburn's violent crime rate decreased by 46.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 39.1%.
What is the most common crime in Auburn?
The most common crime type in Auburn is larceny-theft, accounting for 73.8% of all reported crimes (301 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Auburn figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Auburn, NY rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.