Poughkeepsie Town, NY has a B safety grade (60/100) with a violent crime rate of 177 per 100,000, 50% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Poughkeepsie Town, NY Crime Rate & Safety
Poughkeepsie Town (40,746 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then NY and national benchmarks.
Poughkeepsie Town, NY is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 50% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Poughkeepsie Town, NY shows violent crime at 176.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,589.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 50% 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
176.7/100K violent
2589.2/100K property
-50% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Poughkeepsie Town, NY
Comparable rate records
Poughkeepsie Town's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New York cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Poughkeepsie Town's 176.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Frankfort Town (175.9), Westhampton Beach Village (182.0), Tonawanda (168.6), Saratoga Springs (185.7). 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
Poughkeepsie Town reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable New York cities
At 176.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Poughkeepsie Town ranks 67 of 326 — above 259 of the 325 other New York cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +192.4% 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window close to where it started
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 177.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 176.7 in 2024 (-0.3%). The highest observed value was 247.4 in 2021 and the lowest 153.0 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Poughkeepsie 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Poughkeepsie Town's 2024 municipal footprint
Poughkeepsie Town's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (87% of 1,127 offenses; mix index 7,620).
Violent offenses are only 6% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
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.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+15.5%
153 → 176.7/100K
Property Crime Rate
-2.2%
2647.9 → 2589.2/100K
Property offenses lead Poughkeepsie Town's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs NY
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,055
2589.2
1661.2
1711
Larceny-Theft
981
2407.6
-
-
Burglary
52
127.6
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
22
54
-
-
Arson
8
19.6
-
-
Violent Crime
72
176.7
380
352
Aggravated Assault
41
100.6
-
-
Robbery
20
49.1
-
-
Rape
11
27
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Poughkeepsie Town Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Poughkeepsie Town property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Poughkeepsie Town Police Department
Reporting agency for Poughkeepsie Town NIBRS-participating
Poughkeepsie Town Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Poughkeepsie Town's 1,127 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 Poughkeepsie Town in population. Their populations run from 35,693 to 45,084, against 40,746 here. Or use our
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Poughkeepsie Town at 176.7/100K violent and 2,589.2/100K property - matched below outside New York (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
How many crimes were reported in Poughkeepsie Town?
In 2024, Poughkeepsie Town reported 72 violent crimes and 1,055 property crimes, for a total of 1,127 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Poughkeepsie Town?
From 2023 to 2024, Poughkeepsie Town's violent crime rate increased by 15.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 2.2%.
What is the most common crime in Poughkeepsie Town?
The most common crime type in Poughkeepsie Town is larceny-theft, accounting for 87.0% of all reported crimes (981 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Poughkeepsie 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Poughkeepsie Town, NY rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.