Long Beach, NY has a A+ safety grade (91/100) with a violent crime rate of 78 per 100,000, 78% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Long Beach (34,527 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
Long Beach, NY carries a PlainCrime A+ safety grade with violent crime 78% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Long Beach, NY shows violent crime at 78.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 104.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 78% 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 38.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 78.2 in 2024 (+101.3%). The highest observed value was 89.5 in 2022 and the lowest 38.9 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 42.9% of the 63 Part I offenses reported in Long Beach for 2024, against a median of 6.8% across comparable New York cities — a gap of 36.1 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.
Small-count caution
Long Beach reported 27 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 34,527. 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 Long Beach's 78.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Brighton Town (78.1), Crawford Town (77.8), Ulster Town (79.4), East Aurora-Aurora Town (79.5). 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 78.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Long Beach ranks 143 of 326 — above 183 of the 325 other New York cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +29.4% 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.
Long Beach's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row keeps violent and property totals in a closer balance. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Based on 27 reported violent incidents in a population of 34,527. 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.
Long Beach leans on larceny-theft at 48% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,681.
Violent offenses are 43% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a mid-size city.
Long Beach 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 | 36 | 104.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 30 | 86.9 |
| Burglary | 5 | 14.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 2.9 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 27 | 78.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 23 | 66.6 |
| Robbery | 2 | 5.8 |
| Murder | 1 | 2.9 |
| Rape | 1 | 2.9 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 33,461 | 38.9 | 137.5 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 33,294 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 34,651 | 89.5 | 144.3 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 34,507 | 66.7 | 130.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 34,527 | 78.2 | 104.3 |
Long Beach Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Long Beach's 63 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
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 Long Beach in population. Their populations run from 32,289 to 35,835, against 34,527 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Long Beach sits at 78.2/100K violent (grade A+); the New York cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Long Beach at 78.2/100K violent and 104.3/100K property - matched below outside New York (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
78.2/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
104.3/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+17.2% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Long Beach reported 27 violent crimes and 36 property crimes, for a total of 63 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Long Beach's violent crime rate increased by 17.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 20%.
The most common crime type in Long Beach is larceny-theft, accounting for 47.6% of all reported crimes (30 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Long Beach 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 Long Beach's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Long Beach, NY rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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