Glen Cove, NY has a A safety grade (85/100) with a violent crime rate of 112 per 100,000, 68% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Glen Cove (27,767 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then NY and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Glen Cove, NY carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 68% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Glen Cove, NY shows violent crime at 111.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 468.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 68% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 11.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 111.6 in 2024 (+911.7%). The highest observed value was 111.6 in 2024 and the lowest 11.0 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Glen Cove's 111.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are White Plains (111.4), Beacon (111.4), Monticello Village (110.9), Newburgh Town (110.6). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 19.3% of the 161 Part I offenses reported in Glen Cove for 2024, against a median of 6.8% across comparable New York cities — a gap of 12.5 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 111.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Glen Cove ranks 101 of 326 — above 225 of the 325 other New York cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +84.8% 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.
Property counts dominate Glen Cove'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.
Across 6.7 Census sq mi, Glen Cove logged 19.5 property and 4.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Glen Cove's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (70% of 161 offenses; mix index 5,232).
Violent offenses are 19% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Glen Cove offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (6.7 sq mi); 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 | 130 | 468.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 113 | 407 |
| Burglary | 10 | 36 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 7 | 25.2 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 31 | 111.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 25 | 90 |
| Rape | 3 | 10.8 |
| Robbery | 3 | 10.8 |
| Murder | 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 · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 27,186 | 11 | 397.3 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 27,007 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 28,004 | 50 | 664.2 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 27,885 | 111.2 | 498.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 27,767 | 111.6 | 468.2 |
Glen Cove Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Glen Cove's 161 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 Glen Cove in population. Their populations run from 26,130 to 29,607, against 27,767 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Glen Cove sits at 111.6/100K violent (grade A); the New York cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Glen Cove at 111.6/100K violent and 468.2/100K property - matched below outside New York (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
111.6/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
468.2/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+0.4% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Glen Cove reported 31 violent crimes and 130 property crimes, for a total of 161 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Glen Cove's violent crime rate increased by 0.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 6.1%.
The most common crime type in Glen Cove is larceny-theft, accounting for 70.2% of all reported crimes (113 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Glen Cove 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Glen Cove's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Glen Cove, NY rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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