Southold Town, NY has a A safety grade (87/100) with a violent crime rate of 52 per 100,000, 85% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Southold Town (21,344 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then NY and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Southold Town, 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, Southold Town, NY shows violent crime at 51.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 894.9 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
Southold Town reported 11 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 21,344. 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 Southold Town's 51.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Saugerties Town (51.4), Camillus Town and Village (51.8), Wallkill Town (51.1), Hamburg Town (52.4). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 55.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 51.5 in 2024 (-6.5%). The highest observed value was 84.8 in 2021 and the lowest 42.0 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 51.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Southold Town ranks 175 of 326 — above 151 of the 325 other New York cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -16.0% 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 Southold 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 11 reported violent incidents in a population of 21,344. 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Southold Town's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (85% of 202 offenses; mix index 7,246).
Violent offenses are only 5% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Southold 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 | 191 | 894.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 171 | 801.2 |
| Burglary | 11 | 51.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 9 | 42.2 |
| Arson | 1 | 4.7 |
| Violent Crime | 11 | 51.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 11 | 51.5 |
| 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 | 19,957 | 55.1 | 1357.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 20,045 | 84.8 | 942.9 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 21,347 | 65.6 | 1489.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 21,425 | 42 | 844.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 21,344 | 51.5 | 894.9 |
Southold Town Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Southold Town's 202 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 Southold Town in population. Their populations run from 19,888 to 22,040, against 21,344 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Southold Town sits at 51.5/100K violent (grade A); the New York cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Southold Town at 51.5/100K violent and 894.9/100K property - matched below outside New York (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
51.5/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
894.9/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Southold Town reported 11 violent crimes and 191 property crimes, for a total of 202 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Southold Town's violent crime rate increased by 22.6%, and the property crime rate increased by 5.9%.
The most common crime type in Southold Town is larceny-theft, accounting for 84.7% of all reported crimes (171 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Southold 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Southold Town's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Southold Town, NY rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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