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 FBI UCR + NIBRS
Cheektowaga Town, NY Crime Rate & Safety
Compiled by PlainCrime, Independent crime-data publisher
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 carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 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.
The verdict
Cheektowaga Town earns a C safety grade: violent crime runs 42% below the U.S. average, placing it higher-crime than most U.S. cities.
C
PlainCrime safety grade
-42%
violent crime vs. U.S. average
44th
percentile of 7,769 U.S. cities
3,219.5
property crimes per 100K
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.
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
Property crime rate (2024)
3,219.5/100K↓14%vs 2023
Cheektowaga Town violent crime rate trend
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Violent crime rate (2024)
205.4/100K↓23.5%vs 2023
Year
Coverage
Population
Violent Rate
Property Rate
Total Crimes
2020
Comparable
76,536
282.2
2922.8
2,453
2021
Insufficient reporting
76,130
-
-
-
2022
Comparable
79,606
276.4
3291.2
2,840
2023
Comparable
79,330
268.5
3743.9
3,183
2024
Comparable
78,864
205.4
3219.5
2,701
How Cheektowaga Town sits among NY peers
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Reporting Agency
Cheektowaga Town Police Department NIBRS-participating
Cheektowaga Town's crime figures on this page originate from Cheektowaga Town 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.
Similar-Size Cities in New York
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New York cities closest to Cheektowaga Town in population. Their populations run from 61,923 to 93,943, against 78,864 here. Or use our
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These New York cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Cheektowaga Town's 205.4/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Cheektowaga Town has a violent crime rate of 205.4 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 3219.5 per 100,000, based on 2024 FBI UCR data.
Is Cheektowaga Town, NY safe? ▼
Cheektowaga Town receives a safety grade of C (Average), with a safety score of 51/100. The violent crime rate is 42% below the national average and 46% below the New York average.
What is the population of Cheektowaga Town, NY? ▼
The reporting population for Cheektowaga Town is 78,864 as of 2024.
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.
How do Cheektowaga Town's reported offenses compare with its population? ▼
In 2024, Cheektowaga Town recorded about one reported offense per 29 residents and one reported violent offense per 487 residents. These ratios count reported offenses, not distinct victims, and are not a person's probability of victimization.
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.