North Tonawanda, NY is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 56% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, North Tonawanda, NY shows violent crime at 153.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,087 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 56% 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
153.9/100K violent
1087/100K property
-56% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for North Tonawanda, NY
Comparable rate records
North Tonawanda's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New York cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to North Tonawanda's 153.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Carthage Village (154.0), Niagara Town (156.4), Tupper Lake Village (151.0), Gates Town (157.3). 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
North Tonawanda reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable New York cities
At 153.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, North Tonawanda ranks 78 of 326 — above 248 of the 325 other New York cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +154.6% 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 make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 12.4% of the 371 Part I offenses reported in North Tonawanda for 2024, against a median of 6.8% across comparable New York cities — a gap of 5.6 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-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 77.8% of reported property offenses in North Tonawanda, against a cohort median of 86.4%. The remainder is burglary (37) and motor vehicle theft (35). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 139.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 153.9 in 2024 (+10.3%). The highest observed value was 168.0 in 2022 and the lowest 139.5 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate North Tonawanda'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
North Tonawanda's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 10.1 Census sq mi, North Tonawanda logged 32.2 property and 4.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
North Tonawanda's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (68% of 371 offenses; mix index 4,933).
Violent offenses are only 12% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (10.1 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+7.8%
142.7 → 153.9/100K
Property Crime Rate
+0.5%
1081.7 → 1087/100K
Property offenses lead North Tonawanda's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs NY
Property Crime
325
1087
1711
1661.2
Larceny-Theft
253
846.2
-
-
Burglary
37
123.8
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
35
117.1
-
-
Arson
2
6.7
-
-
Violent Crime
46
153.9
352
380
Aggravated Assault
35
117.1
-
-
Rape
6
20.1
-
-
Robbery
5
16.7
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
North Tonawanda Crime Trend (2020-2024)
North Tonawanda 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 averagesRead the chart as a list
North Tonawanda: 154 violent, 1087 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Orchard Park Town: 67 violent, 1004 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Middletown: 309 violent, 1206 property per 100,000 (grade C)
East Fishkill Town: 27 violent, 405 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Port Chester Village: 76 violent, 965 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Rotterdam Town: 39 violent, 1648 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Cicero Town: 45 violent, 987 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Gates Town: 157 violent, 2965 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Saratoga Springs: 186 violent, 1717 property per 100,000 (grade B)
North Tonawanda Police Department
Reporting agency for North Tonawanda NIBRS-participating
North Tonawanda Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind North Tonawanda's 371 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
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New York cities closest to North Tonawanda in population. Their populations run from 28,546 to 30,518, against 29,898 here. Or use our
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North Tonawanda at 153.9/100K violent and 1,087/100K property - matched below outside New York (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, North Tonawanda reported 46 violent crimes and 325 property crimes, for a total of 371 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in North Tonawanda?
From 2023 to 2024, North Tonawanda's violent crime rate increased by 7.8%, and the property crime rate increased by 0.5%.
What is the most common crime in North Tonawanda?
The most common crime type in North Tonawanda is larceny-theft, accounting for 68.2% of all reported crimes (253 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: North Tonawanda 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 North Tonawanda, NY rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.