Cheektowaga Town, NY has a C safety grade (51/100) with a violent crime rate of 205 per 100,000, 42% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Cheektowaga Town, NY Crime Rate & Safety
At 78,864 residents, Cheektowaga 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.
Cheektowaga Town, NY is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 42% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Cheektowaga Town, NY shows violent crime at 205.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,219.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 42% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
205.4/100K violent
3219.5/100K property
-42% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Cheektowaga Town, NY
Comparable rate records
Cheektowaga Town's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New York cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Cheektowaga Town's 205.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Gowanda Village (205.3), Canastota Village (203.0), Peekskill (208.0), DeWitt Town (211.5). 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
Cheektowaga Town reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable New York cities
At 205.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Cheektowaga Town ranks 55 of 326 — above 271 of the 325 other New York cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +240.0% 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 282.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 205.4 in 2024 (-27.2%). The highest observed value was 282.2 in 2020 and the lowest 205.4 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Cheektowaga 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.
Cheektowaga Town's 2024 municipal footprint
Cheektowaga Town's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (75% of 2,701 offenses; mix index 5,835).
Violent offenses are only 6% 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
-23.5%
268.5 → 205.4/100K
Property Crime Rate
-14%
3743.9 → 3219.5/100K
Property offenses lead Cheektowaga Town's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs NY
vs US avg
Property Crime
2,539
3219.5
1661.2
1711
Larceny-Theft
2,026
2569
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
313
396.9
-
-
Burglary
200
253.6
-
-
Arson
3
3.8
-
-
Violent Crime
162
205.4
380
352
Aggravated Assault
112
142
-
-
Robbery
36
45.6
-
-
Rape
12
15.2
-
-
Murder
2
2.5
-
-
Cheektowaga 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.
Cheektowaga 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 averagesRead the chart as a list
Cheektowaga Town: 205 violent, 3220 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Clarkstown Town: 95 violent, 1828 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Colonie Town: 113 violent, 3445 property per 100,000 (grade C)
New Rochelle: 134 violent, 1105 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Mount Vernon: 544 violent, 1459 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Schenectady: 646 violent, 3129 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Greece Town: 142 violent, 1894 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Utica: 528 violent, 2949 property per 100,000 (grade F)
White Plains: 111 violent, 1760 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Cheektowaga Town Police Department
Reporting agency for Cheektowaga Town NIBRS-participating
Cheektowaga Town Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Cheektowaga Town's 2,701 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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Cheektowaga Town at 205.4/100K violent and 3,219.5/100K property - matched below outside New York (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
How many crimes were reported in Cheektowaga Town?
In 2024, Cheektowaga Town reported 162 violent crimes and 2,539 property crimes, for a total of 2,701 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Cheektowaga Town?
From 2023 to 2024, Cheektowaga Town's violent crime rate decreased by 23.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 14%.
What is the most common crime in Cheektowaga Town?
The most common crime type in Cheektowaga Town is larceny-theft, accounting for 75.0% of all reported crimes (2,026 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Cheektowaga 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 Cheektowaga Town, NY rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.