Crime in New York
Major crime across New York is 7% above the U.S. rate per resident: 10% higher for persons crimes and 6% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.7% from a year earlier. Of the 1 place below, 1 is more than 5% above the statewide rate.
Larger places in New York, against the U.S. and the state
Major-crime index per resident; the U.S. rate is 100.
The largest places in New York that we publish so far, largest first. More are added in batches.
Intimidation is highest, at 3.1 times the U.S. rate
Every block group in New York, including towns and unincorporated areas, against the U.S. rate per resident.
Persons crimes
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across New York
Share of New York residents by the major-crime index of their census block group.
- 0–5038.7%
- 50–10025.4%
- 100–20024.4%
- 200–4009.0%
- 400+2.5%
74.9% of New York residents live where agencies send detailed incident reports to the FBI; for the rest, totals come from summary counts (17.9%) or from agencies' past reports or similar agencies (7.2%), and 0.0% live in areas without a reporting agency of their own (shares of 2020 residents). Data sources
16,070 block groups and 20,146,595 residents. How the estimates are made