Syracuse, NY has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 765 per 100,000, 117% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 145,175 residents, Syracuse is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against NY and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Syracuse, NY carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 117% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Syracuse, NY shows violent crime at 765.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 4,234.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 117% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 765.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Syracuse ranks 5 of 326 — above 321 of the 325 other New York cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +1166.5% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Syracuse's 765.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Liberty Village (793.5), Albany (816.9), Buffalo (706.2), New York (671.0). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 62.3% of reported property offenses in Syracuse, against a cohort median of 86.4%. The remainder is burglary (1,047) and motor vehicle theft (1,270). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 15.3% of the 7,258 Part I offenses reported in Syracuse for 2024, against a median of 6.8% across comparable New York cities — a gap of 8.5 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 839.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 765.3 in 2024 (-8.8%). The highest observed value was 891.3 in 2022 and the lowest 765.3 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Syracuse'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Across 25.1 Census sq mi, Syracuse logged 245.3 property and 44.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Syracuse leans on larceny-theft at 53% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,432.
Violent offenses are 15% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Syracuse offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (25.1 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 | 6,147 | 4234.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 3,830 | 2638.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1,270 | 874.8 |
| Burglary | 1,047 | 721.2 |
| Arson | 22 | 15.2 |
| Violent Crime | 1,111 | 765.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 810 | 557.9 |
| Robbery | 194 | 133.6 |
| Rape | 85 | 58.6 |
| Murder | 22 | 15.2 |
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 | 142,011 | 839.4 | 2856.8 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 140,847 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 145,179 | 891.3 | 3067.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 143,295 | 815.8 | 3865.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 145,175 | 765.3 | 4234.2 |
Syracuse Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Syracuse's 7,258 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
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 Syracuse in population. Their populations run from 81,226 to 206,557, against 145,175 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Syracuse sits at 765.3/100K violent (grade F); the New York cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Syracuse at 765.3/100K violent and 4,234.2/100K property - matched below outside New York (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
765.3/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
4,234.2/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-6.2% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Syracuse reported 1,111 violent crimes and 6,147 property crimes, for a total of 7,258 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Syracuse's violent crime rate decreased by 6.2%, and the property crime rate increased by 9.5%.
The most common crime type in Syracuse is larceny-theft, accounting for 52.8% of all reported crimes (3,830 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Syracuse's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Large-city rate methodology for how Syracuse's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Syracuse, NY rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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