Ulster Town, NY has a A safety grade (75/100) with a violent crime rate of 79 per 100,000, 77% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Ulster Town (12,590 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
Ulster Town, NY is safer than most U.S. cities, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 77% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Ulster Town, NY shows violent crime at 79.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,938 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.
Small-count caution
Ulster Town reported 10 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 12,590. 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 Ulster Town's 79.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are East Aurora-Aurora Town (79.5), Oneonta City (80.1), Eden Town (80.1), Long Beach (78.2). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 96.3% of reported property offenses in Ulster Town, against a cohort median of 86.3%. The remainder is burglary (6) and motor vehicle theft (3). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 79.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Ulster Town ranks 142 of 326 — above 184 of the 325 other New York cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +31.5% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 87.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 79.4 in 2024 (-8.8%). The highest observed value was 87.1 in 2020 and the lowest 23.6 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 3.9% of the 254 Part I offenses reported in Ulster Town for 2024, against a median of 7.0% across comparable New York cities — a gap of 3.0 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 Ulster 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 10 reported violent incidents in a population of 12,590. 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.
Ulster Town's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (93% of 254 offenses; mix index 8,582).
Violent offenses are only 4% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Ulster 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 | 244 | 1938 |
| Larceny-Theft | 235 | 1866.6 |
| Burglary | 6 | 47.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 3 | 23.8 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 10 | 79.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 10 | 79.4 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 12,626 | 87.1 | 1227.6 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 12,745 | 39.2 | 682.6 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 12,803 | 70.3 | 1156 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 12,693 | 23.6 | 2324.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 12,590 | 79.4 | 1938 |
Ulster Town Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Ulster Town's 254 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 Ulster Town in population. Their populations run from 11,836 to 13,240, against 12,590 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Ulster Town sits at 79.4/100K violent (grade A); the New York cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Ulster Town at 79.4/100K violent and 1,938/100K property - matched below outside New York (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
79.4/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,938/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Ulster Town reported 10 violent crimes and 244 property crimes, for a total of 254 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Ulster Town's violent crime rate increased by 236.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 16.6%.
The most common crime type in Ulster Town is larceny-theft, accounting for 92.5% of all reported crimes (235 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Ulster 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 Ulster Town's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Ulster Town, NY rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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