New Rochelle, NY has a A safety grade (77/100) with a violent crime rate of 134 per 100,000, 62% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
New Rochelle, NY Crime Rate & Safety
At 84,960 residents, New Rochelle is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against NY and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
New Rochelle, NY carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 62% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, New Rochelle, NY shows violent crime at 134.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,105.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 62% 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.
A safety grade
134.2/100K violent
1105.2/100K property
-62% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for New Rochelle, NY
Comparable rate records
New Rochelle's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New York cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to New Rochelle's 134.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Irondequoit Town (131.7), Plattsburgh City (130.8), Hoosick Falls Village (127.6), Greece Town (141.6). 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
New Rochelle sits mid-pack among comparable New York cities
At 134.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, New Rochelle ranks 87 of 326 — above 239 of the 325 other New York cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +122.1% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 171.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 134.2 in 2024 (-21.8%). The highest observed value was 182.7 in 2022 and the lowest 134.2 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 10.8% of the 1,053 Part I offenses reported in New Rochelle for 2024, against a median of 6.8% across comparable New York cities — a gap of 4.0 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.
Property counts dominate New Rochelle'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
New Rochelle's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 10.3 Census sq mi, New Rochelle logged 91.3 property and 11.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
New Rochelle's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (83% of 1,053 offenses; mix index 6,900).
Violent offenses are only 11% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (10.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Both rates shifted (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-19%
165.6 → 134.2/100K
Property Crime Rate
-19.5%
1372.4 → 1105.2/100K
Property offenses lead New Rochelle's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs NY
Property Crime
939
1105.2
1711
1661.2
Larceny-Theft
869
1022.8
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
48
56.5
-
-
Burglary
22
25.9
-
-
Arson
3
3.5
-
-
Violent Crime
114
134.2
352
380
Aggravated Assault
76
89.5
-
-
Robbery
36
42.4
-
-
Rape
2
2.4
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
New Rochelle Crime Trend (2020-2024)
New Rochelle property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
New Rochelle Police Department
Reporting agency for New Rochelle NIBRS-participating
New Rochelle Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind New Rochelle's 1,053 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
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.
Similar-Size Cities in New York
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New Rochelle at 134.2/100K violent and 1,105.2/100K property - matched below outside New York (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, New Rochelle reported 114 violent crimes and 939 property crimes, for a total of 1,053 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in New Rochelle?
From 2023 to 2024, New Rochelle's violent crime rate decreased by 19%, and the property crime rate decreased by 19.5%.
What is the most common crime in New Rochelle?
The most common crime type in New Rochelle is larceny-theft, accounting for 82.5% of all reported crimes (869 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: New Rochelle's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 New Rochelle, NY rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.