Gowanda Village, NY has a B safety grade (73/100) with a violent crime rate of 205 per 100,000, 42% below the national average.
Gowanda Village's UCR row covers a small municipal population (2,436). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to NY and U.S. averages.
Gowanda Village, NY carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 42% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Gowanda Village, NY shows violent crime at 205.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 738.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 42% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
The verdict
Gowanda Village earns a B safety grade: violent crime runs 42% below the U.S. average, placing it close to the national middle for violent crime.
Based on 5 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,436. 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-count caution
Gowanda Village reported 5 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 2,436. 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Gowanda Village's 205.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Cheektowaga Town (205.4), Canastota Village (203.0), Peekskill (208.0), DeWitt Town (211.5). 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 205.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Gowanda Village ranks 56 of 326 — above 270 of the 325 other New York cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +239.7% 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
Violent offenses are 21.7% of the 23 Part I offenses reported in Gowanda Village for 2024, against a median of 6.8% across comparable New York cities — a gap of 15.0 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
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 158.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 205.3 in 2024 (+29.9%). The highest observed value was 205.3 in 2024 and the lowest 0.0 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 94.4% of reported property offenses in Gowanda Village, against a cohort median of 86.3%. The remainder is burglary (1) 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 Gowanda Village'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 5 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,436. 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.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 18 | 738.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 17 | 697.9 |
| Burglary | 1 | 41.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 5 | 205.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 5 | 205.3 |
| 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 · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 2,531 | 158 | 1422.4 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 2,507 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 2,469 | 121.5 | 1053.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 2,471 | 0 | 1254.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 2,436 | 205.3 | 738.9 |
Gowanda Village's crime figures on this page originate from Gowanda Village Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
This agency reports via the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS): aggregate monthly offense counts rather than incident-level detail.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New York cities closest to Gowanda Village in population. Their populations run from 2,325 to 2,566, against 2,436 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
These New York cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Gowanda Village's 205.3/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Micro-municipal read: Gowanda Village's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Gowanda Village's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Gowanda Village, NY rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Gowanda Village is scored as a small municipal UCR reporter (2,436 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.