Lancaster Town, NY has a A safety grade (87/100) with a violent crime rate of 43 per 100,000, 88% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Lancaster Town (39,290 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
Lancaster Town, NY is among the safest cities in the country, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 88% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lancaster Town, NY shows violent crime at 43.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 957 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 88% 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.
Small-count caution
Lancaster Town reported 17 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 39,290. 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 Lancaster Town's 43.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Pulaski Village (43.4), Southampton Village (42.9), Frankfort Village (43.9), Lake Placid Village (43.9). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 31.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 43.3 in 2024 (+35.7%). The highest observed value was 55.9 in 2023 and the lowest 31.9 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 43.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lancaster Town ranks 190 of 326 — above 136 of the 325 other New York cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -29.5% 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 Lancaster 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 17 reported violent incidents in a population of 39,290. 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.
Lancaster Town's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (82% of 393 offenses; mix index 6,831).
Violent offenses are only 4% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Lancaster 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 | 376 | 957 |
| Larceny-Theft | 322 | 819.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 36 | 91.6 |
| Burglary | 18 | 45.8 |
| Arson | 1 | 2.5 |
| Violent Crime | 17 | 43.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 14 | 35.6 |
| Rape | 3 | 7.6 |
| Murder | 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 · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 37,633 | 31.9 | 922.1 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 37,644 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 39,305 | 40.7 | 1081.3 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 39,331 | 55.9 | 925.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 39,290 | 43.3 | 957 |
Lancaster Town Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Lancaster Town's 393 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 Lancaster Town in population. Their populations run from 34,933 to 43,583, against 39,290 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Lancaster Town sits at 43.3/100K violent (grade A); the New York cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Lancaster Town at 43.3/100K violent and 957/100K property - matched below outside New York (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
43.3/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
957/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-22.5% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Lancaster Town reported 17 violent crimes and 376 property crimes, for a total of 393 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Lancaster Town's violent crime rate decreased by 22.5%, and the property crime rate increased by 3.4%.
The most common crime type in Lancaster Town is larceny-theft, accounting for 81.9% of all reported crimes (322 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Lancaster 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 Lancaster Town's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Lancaster Town, NY rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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