Crime in East Rockaway, New York
Major crime in East Rockaway is 57% below the U.S. rate per resident: 63% lower for persons crimes and 56% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.2% 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.
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Every crime type in East Rockaway is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in East Rockaway 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 East Rockaway
The middle half of East Rockaway residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 25 and 55; the typical (median) resident's is 32. The citywide figure (43) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5074.7%
- 50–10017.9%
- 100–2007.4%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.2% 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.
East Rockaway against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,665 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than East Rockaway; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
East Rockaway has a higher major-crime index than 3 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Lynbrook (1 mi), is 35% below East Rockaway's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in East Rockaway
What are the most common crimes in East Rockaway?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 28 a year), theft from vehicle (about 15 a year) and shoplifting (about 14 a year). Compared with the U.S., vandalism stands out most: 36% below 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. East Rockaway's figures add up its 8 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- East Rockaway has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 0.0% 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: 10,088. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in East Rockaway, New York." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ny/east-rockaway
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Lynbrook1 mi28
- Hewlett2 mi56
- Oceanside2 mi65
- Rockville Centre2 mi21
- Malverne2 mi17
- Valley Stream2 mi70
- Island Park3 mi45
- South Valley Stream3 mi203