Shelter Island Town, NY has a A+ safety grade (93/100) with a violent crime rate of 30 per 100,000, 91% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Shelter Island Town is a small municipal reporter (3,305 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with NY and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Shelter Island Town, NY is among the safest cities in the country, and earns an A+ PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 91% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Shelter Island Town, NY shows violent crime at 30.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 453.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 91% 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
Shelter Island Town reported 1 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 3,305. 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Shelter Island Town's 30.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Delhi Village (30.3), Lowville Village (30.1), Larchmont Village (31.0), Mount Hope Town (31.0). 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
At 30.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Shelter Island Town ranks 216 of 326 — above 110 of the 325 other New York cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -50.7% 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 Shelter Island 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.
Based on 1 reported violent incidents in a population of 3,305. 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.
Shelter Island Town's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (75% of 16 offenses; mix index 6,016).
Violent offenses are only 6% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Shelter Island Town 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.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 15 | 453.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 12 | 363.1 |
| Burglary | 3 | 90.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 1 | 30.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 1 | 30.3 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 2,419 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 2,421 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 3,293 | 30.4 | 577 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 3,287 | 60.8 | 669.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 3,305 | 30.3 | 453.9 |
Shelter Island Town Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Shelter Island Town's 16 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS): aggregate monthly offense counts rather than incident-level detail.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New York cities closest to Shelter Island Town in population. Their populations run from 3,134 to 3,379, against 3,305 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, Shelter Island Town reported 1 violent crimes and 15 property crimes, for a total of 16 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Shelter Island Town's violent crime rate decreased by 50.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 32.2%.
The most common crime type in Shelter Island Town is larceny-theft, accounting for 75.0% of all reported crimes (12 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Shelter Island Town 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 Shelter Island Town's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Shelter Island Town, NY rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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