Port Jervis, NY has a C safety grade (46/100) with a violent crime rate of 411 per 100,000, 17% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Port Jervis is a small municipal reporter (8,508 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with NY and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Port Jervis, NY is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 17% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Port Jervis, NY shows violent crime at 411.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,539.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 17% above 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 411.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Port Jervis ranks 21 of 326 — above 305 of the 325 other New York cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +580.8% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 258.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 411.4 in 2024 (+59.4%). The highest observed value was 606.5 in 2022 and the lowest 258.0 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Port Jervis's 411.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Oneida (399.2), Lackawanna (395.2), Ogdensburg (438.4), Salamanca (383.6). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 21.1% of the 166 Part I offenses reported in Port Jervis for 2024, against a median of 6.8% across comparable New York cities — a gap of 14.3 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 Port Jervis'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.
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.
Across 2.5 Census sq mi, Port Jervis logged 51.8 property and 13.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Port Jervis's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (70% of 166 offenses; mix index 5,226).
Violent offenses are 21% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Port Jervis offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.5 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 | 131 | 1539.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 116 | 1363.4 |
| Burglary | 11 | 129.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 4 | 47 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 35 | 411.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 28 | 329.1 |
| Robbery | 4 | 47 |
| Rape | 3 | 35.3 |
| Murder | 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 | 8,526 | 258 | 1372.3 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 8,415 | 439.7 | 1699.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 8,738 | 606.5 | 1842.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 8,569 | 571.8 | 1797.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 8,508 | 411.4 | 1539.7 |
Port Jervis Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Port Jervis's 166 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 Port Jervis in population. Their populations run from 8,100 to 8,826, against 8,508 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Port Jervis sits at 411.4/100K violent (grade C); the New York cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Port Jervis reported 35 violent crimes and 131 property crimes, for a total of 166 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Port Jervis's violent crime rate decreased by 28.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 14.3%.
The most common crime type in Port Jervis is larceny-theft, accounting for 69.9% of all reported crimes (116 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Port Jervis 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 Port Jervis's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Port Jervis, NY rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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