Gates Town, NY is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 55% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Gates Town, NY shows violent crime at 157.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,964.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 55% 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
157.3/100K violent
2964.7/100K property
-55% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Gates Town, NY
Comparable rate records
Gates Town's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New York cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Gates Town's 157.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Haverstraw Town (157.4), Niagara Town (156.4), Glens Falls (159.5), Corning (160.1). 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
Gates Town reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable New York cities
At 157.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Gates Town ranks 75 of 326 — above 251 of the 325 other New York cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +160.4% 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 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 230.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 157.3 in 2024 (-31.7%). The highest observed value was 230.3 in 2020 and the lowest 31.9 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Gates 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.
Gates Town's 2024 municipal footprint
Gates Town's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (77% of 893 offenses; mix index 6,061).
Violent offenses are only 5% 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
-14.3%
183.5 → 157.3/100K
Property Crime Rate
-2.6%
3043.3 → 2964.7/100K
Property offenses lead Gates Town's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs NY
vs US avg
Property Crime
848
2964.7
1661.2
1711
Larceny-Theft
684
2391.4
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
106
370.6
-
-
Burglary
58
202.8
-
-
Arson
1
3.5
-
-
Violent Crime
45
157.3
380
352
Aggravated Assault
23
80.4
-
-
Robbery
18
62.9
-
-
Rape
4
14
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Gates 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.
Gates 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
Gates Town: 157 violent, 2965 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Saratoga Springs: 186 violent, 1717 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Cicero Town: 45 violent, 987 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Newburgh: 984 violent, 1917 property per 100,000 (grade F)
New Windsor Town: 97 violent, 841 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Glen Cove: 112 violent, 468 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Jamestown: 620 violent, 2315 property per 100,000 (grade F)
East Fishkill Town: 27 violent, 405 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Orchard Park Town: 67 violent, 1004 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Gates Town Police Department
Reporting agency for Gates Town NIBRS-participating
Gates Town Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Gates Town's 893 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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Gates Town at 157.3/100K violent and 2,964.7/100K property - matched below outside New York (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Gates Town reported 45 violent crimes and 848 property crimes, for a total of 893 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Gates Town?
From 2023 to 2024, Gates Town's violent crime rate decreased by 14.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 2.6%.
What is the most common crime in Gates Town?
The most common crime type in Gates Town is larceny-theft, accounting for 76.6% of all reported crimes (684 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Gates 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 Gates Town, NY rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.