Kent Town, NY has a A+ safety grade (93/100) with a violent crime rate of 39 per 100,000, 89% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Kent Town (12,826 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 2026-09-05
Kent Town, NY is among the safest cities in the country, and earns an A+ PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 89% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Kent Town, NY shows violent crime at 39 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 397.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 89% 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 7.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 39.0 in 2024 (+411.6%). The highest observed value was 54.3 in 2023 and the lowest 7.6 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
Kent Town reported 5 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 12,826. 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 Kent Town's 39.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Plattekill Town (38.7), Rhinebeck Village (39.3), Rotterdam Town (39.3), Ogden Town (39.8). 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 39.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Kent Town ranks 202 of 326 — above 124 of the 325 other New York cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -36.4% against the cohort median of 61.3. 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 Kent 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.
Based on 5 reported violent incidents in a population of 12,826. 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Kent Town's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (82% of 56 offenses; mix index 6,856).
Violent offenses are only 9% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Kent Town offense mix (2024)
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.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 51 | 397.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 46 | 358.6 |
| Burglary | 4 | 31.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 7.8 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 5 | 39 |
| Aggravated Assault | 4 | 31.2 |
| Robbery | 1 | 7.8 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 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 | 13,123 | 7.6 | 289.6 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 13,105 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 12,943 | 30.9 | 309 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 12,902 | 54.3 | 201.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 12,826 | 39 | 397.6 |
Kent Town Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Kent Town's 56 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 Kent Town in population. Their populations run from 12,234 to 13,376, against 12,826 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Kent Town sits at 39/100K violent (grade A+); the New York cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Kent Town at 39/100K violent and 397.6/100K property - matched below outside New York (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
39/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
397.6/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Kent Town reported 5 violent crimes and 51 property crimes, for a total of 56 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Kent Town's violent crime rate decreased by 28.2%, and the property crime rate increased by 97.3%.
The most common crime type in Kent Town is larceny-theft, accounting for 82.1% of all reported crimes (46 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Kent 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Kent Town's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Kent Town, NY rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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