DeWitt Town, NY is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 40% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, DeWitt Town, NY shows violent crime at 211.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,548.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 40% 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
211.5/100K violent
3548.3/100K property
-40% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for DeWitt Town, NY
Comparable rate records
DeWitt Town's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New York cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to DeWitt Town's 211.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Elmira Heights Village (213.2), Peekskill (208.0), Cheektowaga Town (205.4), Gowanda Village (205.3). 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
DeWitt Town reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable New York cities
At 211.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, DeWitt Town ranks 53 of 326 — above 273 of the 325 other New York cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +250.1% 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 higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 184.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 211.5 in 2024 (+14.7%). The highest observed value was 222.4 in 2023 and the lowest 184.4 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate DeWitt 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
DeWitt Town's 2024 municipal footprint
DeWitt Town's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (79% of 942 offenses; mix index 6,410).
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
-4.9%
222.4 → 211.5/100K
Property Crime Rate
-2.5%
3638 → 3548.3/100K
Property offenses lead DeWitt Town's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs NY
vs US avg
Property Crime
889
3548.3
1661.2
1711
Larceny-Theft
746
2977.6
-
-
Burglary
81
323.3
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
62
247.5
-
-
Arson
0
0
-
-
Violent Crime
53
211.5
380
352
Aggravated Assault
42
167.6
-
-
Robbery
8
31.9
-
-
Rape
3
12
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
DeWitt 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.
DeWitt 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
DeWitt Town: 212 violent, 3548 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Manlius Town: 48 violent, 1253 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Camillus Town and Village: 52 violent, 753 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Rockville Centre Village: 24 violent, 471 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Peekskill: 208 violent, 973 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Auburn: 245 violent, 1343 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Watertown: 599 violent, 3929 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Elmira: 547 violent, 4137 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Niskayuna Town: 84 violent, 2114 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Dewitt Town Police Department
Reporting agency for DeWitt Town Summary Reporting (SRS)
Dewitt Town Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind DeWitt Town's 942 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
This agency reports via the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS): aggregate monthly offense counts rather than incident-level detail.
Similar-Size Cities in New York
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DeWitt Town at 211.5/100K violent and 3,548.3/100K property - matched below outside New York (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, DeWitt Town reported 53 violent crimes and 889 property crimes, for a total of 942 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in DeWitt Town?
From 2023 to 2024, DeWitt Town's violent crime rate decreased by 4.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 2.5%.
What is the most common crime in DeWitt Town?
The most common crime type in DeWitt Town is larceny-theft, accounting for 79.2% of all reported crimes (746 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: DeWitt Town 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 DeWitt Town, NY rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.