CrimeMetric

Crime in Penn Yan, New York

Major crime in Penn Yan is 26% below the U.S. rate per resident: 59% lower for persons crimes and 19% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.8% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
74
26% below the U.S. rate
31% below the New York rate
down 7.8% in a year
Persons crimes
41
59% below the U.S. rate
63% below the New York rate
down 5.1% in a year
Property crimes
81
19% below the U.S. rate
23% below the New York rate
down 8.1% in a year
Social disorder
76
25% below the U.S. rate
28% below the New York rate
down 5.6% in a year

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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Crime by type

Other larceny stands out most, at 34% above the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Penn Yan for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Penn Yan

The middle half of Penn Yan residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 37 and 112; the typical (median) resident's is 38. The citywide figure (74) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Penn Yan, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5056.9%
  • 50–1000.0%
  • 100–20043.1%
  • 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.

When it happens

Highest on weeknights

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm73
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am77
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm74
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am71
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.8% in a year; across New York it fell 8.7%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.8%NY -8.7%-14.9%NY -14.4%
Persons crimes-5.1%NY -7.0%-2.3%NY -7.2%
Property crimes-8.1%NY -9.0%-16.3%NY -16.1%
Social disorder-5.6%NY -5.2%-6.1%NY -6.7%

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.

Similar-size places

Penn Yan against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents

888 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Penn Yan; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:

Marion, NC5,689163
Savannah, TN5,695159
Hugo, OK5,689145
Penn Yan, NY5,69574
Porter, IN5,69916

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Penn Yan 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, Geneva (14 mi), is 2.1 times Penn Yan's rate.

Geneva14 mi158
Canandaigua20 mi111
Seneca Falls21 mi102
Auburn30 mi84
Newark26 mi82
Penn Yan74
Bath26 mi56
Waterloo19 mi54
Lyons28 mi32

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Penn Yan

What are the most common crimes in Penn Yan?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 38 a year), shoplifting (about 13 a year) and burglary (about 7 a year). Compared with the U.S., other larceny stands out most: 34% above 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. Penn Yan's figures add up its 5 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Penn Yan 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: 5,695. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Penn Yan, New York." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ny/penn-yan

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100