Colonie Town, NY has a C safety grade (59/100) with a violent crime rate of 113 per 100,000, 68% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Colonie Town, NY Crime Rate & Safety
At 81,226 residents, Colonie 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.
Colonie Town, NY carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 68% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Colonie Town, NY shows violent crime at 113.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,444.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 68% 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
113.3/100K violent
3444.7/100K property
-68% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Colonie Town, NY
Comparable rate records
Colonie Town's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New York cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Colonie Town's 113.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Fairport Village (112.8), Glen Cove (111.6), White Plains (111.4), Beacon (111.4). 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
Colonie Town sits mid-pack among comparable New York cities
At 113.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Colonie Town ranks 99 of 326 — above 227 of the 325 other New York cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +87.5% 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.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 3.2% of the 2,890 Part I offenses reported in Colonie Town for 2024, against a median of 7.0% across comparable New York cities — a gap of 3.8 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 105.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 113.3 in 2024 (+7.9%). The highest observed value was 156.1 in 2023 and the lowest 86.8 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Colonie 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.
Colonie Town's 2024 municipal footprint
Colonie Town's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (88% of 2,890 offenses; mix index 7,815).
Violent offenses are only 3% 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
-27.4%
156.1 → 113.3/100K
Property Crime Rate
-5.4%
3639.6 → 3444.7/100K
Property offenses lead Colonie Town's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs NY
vs US avg
Property Crime
2,798
3444.7
1661.2
1711
Larceny-Theft
2,546
3134.5
-
-
Burglary
188
231.5
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
64
78.8
-
-
Arson
6
7.4
-
-
Violent Crime
92
113.3
380
352
Aggravated Assault
69
84.9
-
-
Robbery
20
24.6
-
-
Rape
3
3.7
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Colonie Town Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Colonie Town property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Colonie Town Police Department
Reporting agency for Colonie Town NIBRS-participating
Colonie Town Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Colonie Town's 2,890 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
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Colonie Town at 113.3/100K violent and 3,444.7/100K property - matched below outside New York (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Colonie Town reported 92 violent crimes and 2,798 property crimes, for a total of 2,890 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Colonie Town?
From 2023 to 2024, Colonie Town's violent crime rate decreased by 27.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 5.4%.
What is the most common crime in Colonie Town?
The most common crime type in Colonie Town is larceny-theft, accounting for 88.1% of all reported crimes (2,546 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Colonie 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 Colonie Town, NY rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.