New York, NY has a F safety grade (13/100) with a violent crime rate of 671 per 100,000, 91% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · very large city
At 8,299,271 residents, New York is a very large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against NY and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-08-24
New York, NY carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 91% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, New York, NY shows violent crime at 671 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,368.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 91% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Share of the state cohort
The 252,239 Part I offenses reported here are 69.9% of the 360,972 reported across all 326 comparable New York cities in 2024. A city this large moves the statewide municipal total on its own, so state-level changes should be read against its population of 8,299,271 rather than as a uniform shift.
Position in the state cohort
At 671.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, New York ranks 7 of 326 — above 319 of the 325 other New York cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +1010.5% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to New York's 671.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Schenectady (645.7), Poughkeepsie (643.8), Buffalo (706.2), Jamestown (620.2). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 22.1% of the 252,239 Part I offenses reported in New York for 2024, against a median of 6.8% across comparable New York cities — a gap of 15.3 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 York'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 very large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
New York's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (66% of 252,239 offenses; mix index 4,728).
Violent offenses are 22% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
New York 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 | 196,549 | 2368.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 167,230 | 2015 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 16,477 | 198.5 |
| Burglary | 12,842 | 154.7 |
| Arson | 826 | 10 |
| Violent Crime | 55,690 | 671 |
| Aggravated Assault | 37,863 | 456.2 |
| Robbery | 15,559 | 187.5 |
| Rape | 1,943 | 23.4 |
| Murder | 325 | 3.9 |
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New York cities closest to New York in population. Their populations run from 93,943 to 273,728, against 8,299,271 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
New York sits at 671/100K violent (grade F); the New York cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
New York at 671/100K violent and 2,368.3/100K property - matched below outside New York (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
671/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,368.3/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, New York reported 55,690 violent crimes and 196,549 property crimes, for a total of 252,239 reported offenses.
The most common crime type in New York is larceny-theft, accounting for 66.3% of all reported crimes (167,230 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: New York'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 (very large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Large-city rate methodology for how New York's very large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 New York, NY rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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