Crime in Mount Vernon, New York
Major crime in Mount Vernon is 16% above the U.S. rate per resident: 34% higher for persons crimes and 12% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 1.4% 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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Intimidation stands out most, at 4.1 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Mount Vernon 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 Mount Vernon
The middle half of Mount Vernon residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 60 and 164; the typical (median) resident's is 80. The citywide figure (116) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5013.8%
- 50–10043.5%
- 100–20030.3%
- 200–40010.6%
- 400+1.8%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 1.4% 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.
Mount Vernon against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
181 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Mount Vernon; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Mount Vernon has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Pelham (1 mi), is 80% below Mount Vernon's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Mount Vernon
What are the most common crimes in Mount Vernon?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 366 a year), theft from vehicle (about 343 a year) and aggravated assault (about 230 a year). Compared with the U.S., intimidation stands out most: 4.1 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. Mount Vernon's figures add up its 54 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Mount Vernon's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 40.2% 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: 72,436. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Mount Vernon, New York." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ny/mount-vernon
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Pelham1 mi23
- Pelham Manor2 mi165
- Bronxville2 mi26
- New Rochelle2 mi72
- Tuckahoe3 mi19
- Yonkers3 mi64
- Eastchester4 mi30
- Larchmont4 mi73