Niskayuna Town, NY has a B safety grade (73/100) with a violent crime rate of 84 per 100,000, 76% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Niskayuna Town (23,797 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 2026-09-05
Niskayuna Town, NY is safer than most U.S. cities, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 76% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Niskayuna Town, NY shows violent crime at 84 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,113.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 76% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Niskayuna Town reported 20 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 23,797. 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 Niskayuna Town's 84.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Kensington Village (84.2), Monroe Village (84.5), Jordan Village (83.6), Pleasantville Village (83.6). 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 84.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Niskayuna Town ranks 131 of 326 — above 195 of the 325 other New York cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +39.1% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 3.8% of the 523 Part I offenses reported in Niskayuna Town for 2024, against a median of 7.0% across comparable New York cities — a gap of 3.1 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 80.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 84.0 in 2024 (+4.7%). The highest observed value was 84.0 in 2024 and the lowest 47.0 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Niskayuna 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 20 reported violent incidents in a population of 23,797. 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.
Niskayuna Town's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (87% of 523 offenses; mix index 7,664).
Violent offenses are only 4% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Niskayuna 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 | 503 | 2113.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 456 | 1916.2 |
| Burglary | 36 | 151.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 11 | 46.2 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 20 | 84 |
| Aggravated Assault | 16 | 67.2 |
| Robbery | 3 | 12.6 |
| Rape | 1 | 4.2 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 22,428 | 80.3 | 1881.6 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 22,383 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 23,403 | 47 | 2033.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 23,875 | 83.8 | 1859.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 23,797 | 84 | 2113.7 |
Niskayuna Town Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Niskayuna Town's 523 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 Niskayuna Town in population. Their populations run from 22,857 to 25,484, against 23,797 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Niskayuna Town sits at 84/100K violent (grade B); the New York cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Niskayuna Town at 84/100K violent and 2,113.7/100K property - matched below outside New York (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
84/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,113.7/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Niskayuna Town reported 20 violent crimes and 503 property crimes, for a total of 523 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Niskayuna Town's violent crime rate increased by 0.2%, and the property crime rate increased by 13.7%.
The most common crime type in Niskayuna Town is larceny-theft, accounting for 87.2% of all reported crimes (456 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Niskayuna Town 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 Niskayuna Town's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Niskayuna Town, NY rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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