Oswego City, NY has a D safety grade (36/100) with a violent crime rate of 340 per 100,000, 3% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Oswego City (17,058 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
Oswego City, NY is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a D PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 3% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Oswego City, NY shows violent crime at 340 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,552.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 3% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 340.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Oswego City ranks 31 of 326 — above 295 of the 325 other New York cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +462.7% 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 Oswego City's 340.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Olean (346.5), Hudson (330.4), Kingston (350.2), Johnson City Village (325.5). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 245.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 340.0 in 2024 (+38.7%). The highest observed value was 422.0 in 2022 and the lowest 245.1 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 74.3% of reported property offenses in Oswego City, against a cohort median of 86.4%. The remainder is burglary (133) and motor vehicle theft (23). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Oswego City'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.
Across 7.6 Census sq mi, Oswego City logged 79.6 property and 7.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Oswego City's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (68% of 664 offenses; mix index 5,049).
Violent offenses are only 9% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Oswego City offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (7.6 sq mi); 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 | 606 | 3552.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 450 | 2638.1 |
| Burglary | 133 | 779.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 23 | 134.8 |
| Arson | 2 | 11.7 |
| Violent Crime | 58 | 340 |
| Aggravated Assault | 42 | 246.2 |
| Robbery | 8 | 46.9 |
| Rape | 7 | 41 |
| Murder | 1 | 5.9 |
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 | 17,138 | 245.1 | 2672.4 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 17,132 | 256.8 | 3332.9 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 17,299 | 422 | 3555.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 17,263 | 312.8 | 3562.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 17,058 | 340 | 3552.6 |
Oswego City Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Oswego City's 664 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 Oswego City in population. Their populations run from 15,926 to 18,240, against 17,058 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Oswego City sits at 340/100K violent (grade D); the New York cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Oswego City at 340/100K violent and 3,552.6/100K property - matched below outside New York (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
340/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
3,552.6/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Oswego City reported 58 violent crimes and 606 property crimes, for a total of 664 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Oswego City's violent crime rate increased by 8.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 0.3%.
The most common crime type in Oswego City is larceny-theft, accounting for 67.8% of all reported crimes (450 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Oswego City 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 Oswego City's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Oswego City, NY rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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