New Paltz Town and Village, NY has a A safety grade (88/100) with a violent crime rate of 57 per 100,000, 84% below the national average.
New Paltz Town and Village (15,926 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then NY and national benchmarks.
New Paltz Town and Village, NY carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 84% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, New Paltz Town and Village, NY shows violent crime at 56.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 671.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 84% 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.
The verdict
New Paltz Town and Village earns an A safety grade: violent crime runs 84% below the U.S. average, placing it safer than most U.S. cities.
Based on 9 reported violent incidents in a population of 15,926. 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
New Paltz Town and Village reported 9 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 15,926. 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 New Paltz Town and Village's 56.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Hyde Park Town (56.7), Brockport Village (56.3), Colchester Town (56.1), Orangetown Town (57.6). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 56.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, New Paltz Town and Village ranks 169 of 326 — above 157 of the 325 other New York cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -7.9% 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 New Paltz Town and 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 9 reported violent incidents in a population of 15,926. 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.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 107 | 671.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 100 | 627.9 |
| Burglary | 6 | 37.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 6.3 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 9 | 56.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 8 | 50.2 |
| Rape | 1 | 6.3 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 14,040 | 0 | 28.5 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 14,109 | 70.9 | 744.2 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 14,732 | 40.7 | 604.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 15,853 | 94.6 | 883.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 15,926 | 56.5 | 671.9 |
New Paltz Town and Village's crime figures on this page originate from New Paltz Town and Village Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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 New Paltz Town and Village in population. Their populations run from 15,267 to 16,371, against 15,926 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 New Paltz Town and Village's 56.5/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Mid-size read: New Paltz Town and Village 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 New Paltz Town and Village's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 New Paltz Town and Village, NY rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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