Crime in Brighton, New York
Major crime in Brighton is 15% above the U.S. rate per resident: 78% lower for persons crimes and 35% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 11.8% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
Check an address in Brighton
Vandalism stands out most, at 2.4 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Brighton for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Brighton
The middle half of Brighton residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 73 and 133; the typical (median) resident's is 93. The citywide figure (115) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–504.4%
- 50–10058.3%
- 100–20029.3%
- 200–4005.0%
- 400+2.9%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest at night
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 11.8% in a year; across New York it fell 8.7%
Change in expected crimes, with New York as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Brighton against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
240 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Brighton; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Brighton has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Rochester (4 mi), is 1.7 times Brighton's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Brighton
What are the most common crimes in Brighton?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 215 a year), theft from vehicle (about 162 a year) and shoplifting (about 161 a year). Compared with the U.S., vandalism stands out most: 2.4 times the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Brighton's figures add up its 28 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Brighton has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 26.4% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 36,851. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Brighton, New York." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ny/brighton
Use these numbers in your product
Any U.S. address by API or MCP, free for 10,000 lookups a month.
Get a free API keyNearest cities we publish
Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Rochester4 mi190
- East Rochester4 mi69
- Irondequoit6 mi93
- Gates7 mi145
- Fairport7 mi32
- North Gates8 mi116
- Greece9 mi194
- Webster10 mi67