Owego Village, NY has a B safety grade (73/100) with a violent crime rate of 188 per 100,000, 47% below the national average.

FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city

Owego Village, NY Crime Rate & Safety

Owego Village is a small municipal reporter (4,258 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with NY and U.S. context.

Data updated 2026-09-05

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B
Safety grade
939.4
Property / 100K
187.9
Violent / 100K
4K
Population

Owego Village, NY is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 47% below the U.S. average

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Owego Village, NY shows violent crime at 187.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 939.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 47% 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.

  • B safety grade
  • 187.9/100K violent
  • 939.4/100K property
  • -47% vs U.S.

What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Owego Village, NY

Small-count caution

The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable

Owego Village reported 8 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 4,258. 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.

2020–2024 direction

The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower

Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 390.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 187.9 in 2024 (-51.8%). The highest observed value was 462.8 in 2022 and the lowest 0.0 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.

Comparable rate records

Owego Village's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New York cohort

The nearest comparable 2024 records to Owego Village's 187.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Le Roy Village (189.0), Cohoes (186.4), Saratoga Springs (185.7), Hudson Falls Village (190.1). 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

Owego Village reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable New York cities

At 187.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Owego Village ranks 63 of 326 — above 263 of the 325 other New York cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +210.9% 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.

Offense mix

Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix

Violent offenses are 16.7% of the 48 Part I offenses reported in Owego Village for 2024, against a median of 6.8% across comparable New York cities — a gap of 9.9 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 Owego Village'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 8 reported violent incidents in a population of 4,258. 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.

Owego Village's 2024 municipal footprint

Owego Village's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (77% of 48 offenses; mix index 6,155).

Violent offenses are 17% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.

Owego Village 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.

Property rate moved most (2023→2024)

Property Crime Rate
-39%
1538.8 → 939.4/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-30.1%
268.7 → 187.9/100K

Property offenses lead Owego Village's 2024 record

Offense Count Rate /100K
Property Crime 40 939.4
Larceny-Theft 37 869
Burglary 3 70.5
Motor Vehicle Theft 0 0
Arson 0 0
Violent Crime 8 187.9
Rape 6 140.9
Aggravated Assault 2 47
Murder 0 0
Robbery 0 0

Owego Village Crime Trend (2020-2024)

The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.

Owego Village property crime rate trend

Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR

Property crime rate (2024)
939.4/100K 39% vs 2023
01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 2020202220232024 939

Owego Village violent crime rate trend

Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR

Violent crime rate (2024)
187.9/100K 30.1% vs 2023
100200300400500 2020202220232024 188
Year Coverage Population Violent Rate Property Rate
2020 Comparable 3,846 390 4576.2
2021 Insufficient reporting 3,816 - -
2022 Comparable 3,889 462.8 1620
2023 Comparable 4,094 268.7 1538.8
2024 Comparable 4,258 187.9 939.4

How Owego Village sits among NY peers

POP-SMALLCOHORT-SIZEVIOL-LOWPROP-LOWQUAD-LLGRADE-BNIBRSUCR-2024
Owego Village vs. similar-size NY cities, violent vs. property crime. X axis violent crime per 100K, Y axis property crime per 100K, split by the national averages. 9 cities; the anchor is ringed. Owego Village vs. similar-size NY cities, violent vs. property crime 0 380 Violent crime per 100K → 0 2,100 Property crime per 100K → Owego Village SAFEST HIGHEST CRIME PROPERTY-HEAVY VIOLENT-HEAVY Safety grade A / B C D / F
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Read the chart as a list
  • Owego Village: 188 violent, 939 property per 100,000 (grade B)
  • Le Roy Village: 189 violent, 1110 property per 100,000 (grade B)
  • Norfolk Town: 0 violent, 47 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
  • Dansville Village: 70 violent, 1945 property per 100,000 (grade A)
  • Oyster Bay Cove Village: 0 violent, 217 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
  • Hamilton Village: 0 violent, 0 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
  • Canastota Village: 203 violent, 474 property per 100,000 (grade A)
  • Little Falls: 45 violent, 445 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
  • Wellsville Village: 110 violent, 1849 property per 100,000 (grade B)

Owego Village Police Department

Reporting agency for Owego Village NIBRS-participating

Owego Village Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Owego Village's 48 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).

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 Owego Village in population. Their populations run from 4,099 to 4,544, against 4,258 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.

Owego Village's closest NY violent-rate matches

Owego Village sits at 187.9/100K violent (grade B); the New York cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.

More about Owego Village's 2024 record

How many crimes were reported in Owego Village?

In 2024, Owego Village reported 8 violent crimes and 40 property crimes, for a total of 48 reported offenses.

Is crime increasing or decreasing in Owego Village?

From 2023 to 2024, Owego Village's violent crime rate decreased by 30.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 39%.

What is the most common crime in Owego Village?

The most common crime type in Owego Village is larceny-theft, accounting for 77.1% of all reported crimes (37 incidents in 2024).

Small-city read: Owego Village 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.

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Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Owego Village, NY rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.

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