Tonawanda Town, NY has a A safety grade (78/100) with a violent crime rate of 82 per 100,000, 77% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Tonawanda Town, NY Crime Rate & Safety
At 56,110 residents, Tonawanda Town 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.
Tonawanda Town, NY carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 77% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Tonawanda Town, NY shows violent crime at 82 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,612.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 77% 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.
A safety grade
82/100K violent
1612.9/100K property
-77% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Tonawanda Town, NY
Comparable rate records
Tonawanda Town's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New York cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Tonawanda Town's 82.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Deerpark Town (81.6), Stony Point Town (81.6), Warsaw Village (82.7), Lloyd Town (81.2). 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 lower
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 150.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 82.0 in 2024 (-45.5%). The highest observed value was 199.3 in 2022 and the lowest 82.0 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 69.5% of reported property offenses in Tonawanda Town, against a cohort median of 86.4%. The remainder is burglary (104) and motor vehicle theft (172). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
Tonawanda Town sits mid-pack among comparable New York cities
At 82.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Tonawanda Town ranks 135 of 326 — above 191 of the 325 other New York cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +35.7% 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.
Property counts dominate Tonawanda 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.
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.
Tonawanda Town's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 17.3 Census sq mi, Tonawanda Town logged 52.3 property and 2.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Tonawanda Town's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (66% of 951 offenses; mix index 4,835).
Violent offenses are only 5% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (17.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-52.8%
173.6 → 82/100K
Property Crime Rate
-1.3%
1633.7 → 1612.9/100K
Property offenses lead Tonawanda Town's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
905
1612.9
1711
Larceny-Theft
629
1121
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
172
306.5
-
Burglary
104
185.4
-
Arson
2
3.6
-
Violent Crime
46
82
352
Aggravated Assault
32
57
-
Robbery
13
23.2
-
Rape
1
1.8
-
Murder
0
0
-
Tonawanda 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.
Tonawanda Town property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Tonawanda Town Police Department
Reporting agency for Tonawanda Town NIBRS-participating
Tonawanda Town Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Tonawanda Town's 951 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.
Similar-Size Cities in New York
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Tonawanda Town at 82/100K violent and 1,612.9/100K property - matched below outside New York (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Tonawanda Town reported 46 violent crimes and 905 property crimes, for a total of 951 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Tonawanda Town?
From 2023 to 2024, Tonawanda Town's violent crime rate decreased by 52.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 1.3%.
What is the most common crime in Tonawanda Town?
The most common crime type in Tonawanda Town is larceny-theft, accounting for 66.1% of all reported crimes (629 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Tonawanda Town'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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Tonawanda Town, NY rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.