Niagara Town, NY has a C safety grade (54/100) with a violent crime rate of 156 per 100,000, 56% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Niagara Town is a small municipal reporter (7,671 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with NY and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Niagara Town, NY is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 56% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Niagara Town, NY shows violent crime at 156.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,624 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 56% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 12.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 156.4 in 2024 (+1153.3%). The highest observed value was 206.6 in 2023 and the lowest 12.5 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
Niagara Town reported 12 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 7,671. 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 Niagara Town's 156.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Gates Town (157.3), Haverstraw Town (157.4), Carthage Village (154.0), North Tonawanda (153.9). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 156.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Niagara Town ranks 76 of 326 — above 250 of the 325 other New York cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +158.9% 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.
Property counts dominate Niagara 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 12 reported violent incidents in a population of 7,671. 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-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Niagara Town's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (84% of 290 offenses; mix index 7,135).
Violent offenses are only 4% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Niagara 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 | 278 | 3624 |
| Larceny-Theft | 243 | 3167.8 |
| Burglary | 28 | 365 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 7 | 91.3 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 12 | 156.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 11 | 143.4 |
| Robbery | 1 | 13 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 8,012 | 12.5 | 2521.2 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 7,949 | 100.6 | 1849.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 7,808 | 115.3 | 2484.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 7,746 | 206.6 | 2762.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 7,671 | 156.4 | 3624 |
Niagara Town Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Niagara Town's 290 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New York cities closest to Niagara Town in population. Their populations run from 7,349 to 7,936, against 7,671 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Niagara Town sits at 156.4/100K violent (grade C); the New York cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Niagara Town reported 12 violent crimes and 278 property crimes, for a total of 290 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Niagara Town's violent crime rate decreased by 24.3%, and the property crime rate increased by 31.2%.
The most common crime type in Niagara Town is larceny-theft, accounting for 83.8% of all reported crimes (243 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Niagara Town is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Niagara Town's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Niagara Town, NY rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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