Riverhead Town, NY carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 71% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Riverhead Town, NY shows violent crime at 100.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,524.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 71% 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
100.9/100K violent
2524.3/100K property
-71% vs U.S.
The verdict
Riverhead Town earns a B safety grade: violent crime runs 71% below the U.S. average, placing it safer than most U.S. cities.
B
PlainCrime safety grade
-71%
violent crime vs. U.S. average
71st
percentile of 7,769 U.S. cities
2,524.3
property crimes per 100K
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Riverhead Town, NY
Comparable rate records
Riverhead Town's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New York cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Riverhead Town's 100.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Blooming Grove Town (102.1), New Hartford Town and Village (102.2), Geddes Town (98.4), Amherst Town (103.8). 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 83.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 100.9 in 2024 (+20.5%). The highest observed value was 120.0 in 2023 and the lowest 83.7 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Riverhead Town sits mid-pack among comparable New York cities
At 100.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Riverhead Town ranks 116 of 326 — above 210 of the 325 other New York cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +66.9% 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
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 3.8% of the 937 Part I offenses reported in Riverhead Town for 2024, against a median of 7.0% across comparable New York cities — a gap of 3.1 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 Riverhead 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.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
+18.4%
2131.4 → 2524.3/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-15.9%
120 → 100.9/100K
Property offenses lead Riverhead Town's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs NY
vs US avg
Property Crime
901
2524.3
1661.2
1711
Larceny-Theft
847
2373
-
-
Burglary
35
98.1
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
19
53.2
-
-
Arson
0
0
-
-
Violent Crime
36
100.9
380
352
Aggravated Assault
25
70
-
-
Robbery
8
22.4
-
-
Rape
2
5.6
-
-
Murder
1
2.8
-
-
Riverhead Town 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.
Riverhead Town property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Property crime rate (2024)
2,524.3/100K↑18.4%vs 2023
Riverhead Town violent crime rate trend
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Violent crime rate (2024)
100.9/100K↓15.9%vs 2023
Year
Coverage
Population
Violent Rate
Property Rate
Total Crimes
2020
Comparable
33,461
83.7
1431.5
507
2021
Insufficient reporting
33,424
-
-
-
2022
Comparable
36,064
116.5
2063
786
2023
Comparable
35,845
120
2131.4
807
2024
Comparable
35,693
100.9
2524.3
937
How Riverhead Town sits among NY peers
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Reporting Agency
Riverhead Town Police Department NIBRS-participating
Riverhead Town's crime figures on this page originate from Riverhead Town Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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 Riverhead Town in population. Their populations run from 32,973 to 38,750, against 35,693 here. Or use our
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These New York cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Riverhead Town's 100.9/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Riverhead Town has a violent crime rate of 100.9 per 100,000 residents and a property crime rate of 2524.3 per 100,000, based on 2024 FBI UCR data.
Is Riverhead Town, NY safe? ▼
Riverhead Town receives a safety grade of B (Above Average), with a safety score of 68/100. The violent crime rate is 71% below the national average and 73% below the New York average.
What is the population of Riverhead Town, NY? ▼
The reporting population for Riverhead Town is 35,693 as of 2024.
How many crimes were reported in Riverhead Town? ▼
In 2024, Riverhead Town reported 36 violent crimes and 901 property crimes, for a total of 937 reported offenses.
How do Riverhead Town's reported offenses compare with its population? ▼
In 2024, Riverhead Town recorded about one reported offense per 38 residents and one reported violent offense per 991 residents. These ratios count reported offenses, not distinct victims, and are not a person's probability of victimization.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Riverhead Town? ▼
From 2023 to 2024, Riverhead Town's violent crime rate decreased by 15.9%, and the property crime rate increased by 18.4%.
What is the most common crime in Riverhead Town? ▼
The most common crime type in Riverhead Town is larceny-theft, accounting for 90.4% of all reported crimes (847 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Riverhead 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 Riverhead Town, NY rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.