Chester Town, NY has a A+ safety grade (99/100) with a violent crime rate of 12 per 100,000, 97% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Chester Town is a small municipal reporter (8,608 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with NY and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Chester Town, NY is among the safest cities in the country, and earns an A+ PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 97% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Chester Town, NY shows violent crime at 11.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 34.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 97% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A+ from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Chester Town reported 1 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 8,608. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 25.0% of the 4 Part I offenses reported in Chester Town for 2024, against a median of 6.8% across comparable New York cities — a gap of 18.2 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Chester Town's 11.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Marlborough Town (11.3), Hastings-on-Hudson Village (12.2), Croton-on-Hudson Village (12.3), Rye (12.4). 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
At 11.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Chester Town ranks 237 of 326 — above 89 of the 325 other New York cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -81.1% against the cohort median of 61.3. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 100.0% of reported property offenses in Chester Town, against a cohort median of 86.3%. The remainder is burglary (0) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Chester 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.
Based on 1 reported violent incidents in a population of 8,608. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Chester Town's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (75% of 4 offenses; mix index 6,250).
Violent offenses are 25% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Chester Town offense mix (2024)
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.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 3 | 34.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 3 | 34.9 |
| Burglary | 0 | 0 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 1 | 11.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 1 | 11.6 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 8,095 | 0 | 86.5 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 8,061 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 8,571 | 0 | 105 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 8,562 | 23.4 | 116.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 8,608 | 11.6 | 34.9 |
Chester Town Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Chester Town's 4 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New York cities closest to Chester Town in population. Their populations run from 8,229 to 8,931, against 8,608 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, Chester Town reported 1 violent crimes and 3 property crimes, for a total of 4 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Chester Town's violent crime rate decreased by 50.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 70.1%.
The most common crime type in Chester Town is larceny-theft, accounting for 75.0% of all reported crimes (3 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Chester Town is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Chester Town's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Chester Town, NY rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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