New York's comparable FBI window (2014–2024, 10 years) shows declines on both major offense rates — charts below keep the larger |endpoint| move first.
Declining-window verdict
New York's violent crime rate fell 1.0% from 2014 to 2024; its property crime rate fell 3.2%. The endpoints agree on the broad direction, but the intervening years still matter.
Peak and trough
The highest observed violent-crime rate was 429.2 in 2022; the lowest was 349.3 in 2018. The latest value lies 38% of the way from that low to that peak, which shows whether the endpoint is close to an extreme or near the middle of the observed range.
Year-to-year movement
The largest annual change ran from 2020 to 2022: +18.4%. Across the full sequence, 3 year-to-year steps rose by more than 1% and 5 fell by more than 1%. A single sharp step can reflect participation or reporting changes as well as a real change in recorded offenses.
Latest national comparison
For 2024, the state rate was 380.0 per 100,000 versus 352.0 across the state records in this dataset, a gap of 8.0% above. This is a state-level benchmark, not a neighborhood-safety conclusion.
Recent direction check
From 2020 to 2024, the violent-crime rate rose 4.8%, compared with -1.0% across the full 2014-2024 window. That difference is why the latest few observations should be read separately from the decade-scale endpoints.
Full-window endpoints
Violent crime moved from 383.9 to 380.0 per 100,000 (-1.0%). Property crime moved from 1716.7 to 1661.2 (-3.2%). These are endpoint comparisons, not proof that every intervening year followed the same direction.
New York's property rate rose 22.1% (+310.2 per 100K) from 2020 to 2022 (1404.9 → 1715.1) — the sharpest comparable year-to-year step in this window. The largest move the other way was dropped 10.2% from 2023 to 2024 (1849.0 → 1661.2).
New York's property gap vs the US aggregate moved from 31.9% below in 2014 to 2.9% below in 2024 (+29.0 pp).
| Year | Coverage | Population | Property | Rate | YoY | Violent | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Comparable | 19,867,248 | 330,029 | 1661.2 | ↓ 10.2% | 75,494 | 380 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 19,571,216 | 361,873 | 1849 | ↑ 7.8% | 77,619 | 396.6 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 19,677,151 | 337,485 | 1715.1 | - | 84,446 | 429.2 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 19,835,913 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2020 | Comparable | 19,336,776 | 271,661 | 1404.9 | ↑ 3.3% | 70,106 | 362.6 |
| 2019 | Comparable | 19,453,561 | 264,666 | 1360.5 | ↓ 5.2% | 69,403 | 356.8 |
| 2018 | Comparable | 19,542,209 | 280,457 | 1435.1 | ↓ 4.4% | 68,261 | 349.3 |
| 2017 | Comparable | 19,849,399 | 298,022 | 1501.4 | ↓ 2.7% | 70,408 | 354.7 |
| 2016 | Comparable | 19,745,289 | 304,759 | 1543.5 | ↓ 3.7% | 74,123 | 375.4 |
| 2015 | Comparable | 19,795,791 | 317,233 | 1602.5 | ↓ 6.7% | 75,022 | 379 |
| 2014 | Comparable | 19,746,227 | 338,986 | 1716.7 | - | 75,803 | 383.9 |
More in New York: overview, safest cities, most dangerous, compare. Methodology — FBI UCR / Crime Data Explorer rates per 100,000 for New York (2014–2024); Census population where FBI denominators are missing.