Rensselaer City, NY has a A safety grade (84/100) with a violent crime rate of 54 per 100,000, 85% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Rensselaer City is a small municipal reporter (9,343 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with NY and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Rensselaer City, NY is safer than most U.S. cities, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 85% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Rensselaer City, NY shows violent crime at 53.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,220.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 85% 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.
Small-count caution
Rensselaer City reported 5 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 9,343. 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
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 207.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 53.5 in 2024 (-74.2%). The highest observed value was 207.7 in 2020 and the lowest 53.5 in 2024. 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 Rensselaer City's 53.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Hamburg Town (52.4), Camillus Town and Village (51.8), Southold Town (51.5), Saugerties Town (51.4). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 78.1% of reported property offenses in Rensselaer City, against a cohort median of 86.4%. The remainder is burglary (17) and motor vehicle theft (8). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 53.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Rensselaer City ranks 172 of 326 — above 154 of the 325 other New York cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -12.7% against the cohort median of 61.3. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property counts dominate Rensselaer 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.
Based on 5 reported violent incidents in a population of 9,343. 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.
Across 3.2 Census sq mi, Rensselaer City logged 35.9 property and 1.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Rensselaer City's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (75% of 119 offenses; mix index 5,855).
Violent offenses are only 4% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Rensselaer City offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3.2 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 | 114 | 1220.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 89 | 952.6 |
| Burglary | 17 | 182 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 8 | 85.6 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 5 | 53.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 4 | 42.8 |
| Robbery | 1 | 10.7 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 9,149 | 207.7 | 907.2 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 9,119 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 9,292 | 107.6 | 1043.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 9,267 | 172.7 | 1424.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 9,343 | 53.5 | 1220.2 |
Rensselaer City Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Rensselaer City's 119 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New York cities closest to Rensselaer City in population. Their populations run from 9,000 to 9,708, against 9,343 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Rensselaer City sits at 53.5/100K violent (grade A); the New York cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Rensselaer City reported 5 violent crimes and 114 property crimes, for a total of 119 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Rensselaer City's violent crime rate decreased by 69%, and the property crime rate decreased by 14.3%.
The most common crime type in Rensselaer City is larceny-theft, accounting for 74.8% of all reported crimes (89 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Rensselaer City 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 Rensselaer City's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Rensselaer City, NY rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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