Crime in Poughkeepsie, New York
Major crime in Poughkeepsie is 14% below the U.S. rate per resident: 38% higher for persons crimes and 25% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 17.8% 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.
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Intimidation stands out most, at 1.9 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Poughkeepsie 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 Poughkeepsie
The middle half of Poughkeepsie residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 58 and 93; the typical (median) resident's is 70. The citywide figure (86) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5014.5%
- 50–10062.2%
- 100–20019.1%
- 200–4003.8%
- 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 Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 17.8% 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.
Poughkeepsie against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
421 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Poughkeepsie; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Poughkeepsie has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Arlington (1 mi), is 1.8 times Poughkeepsie's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Poughkeepsie
What are the most common crimes in Poughkeepsie?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 173 a year), aggravated assault (about 106 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 71 a year). Compared with the U.S., intimidation stands out most: 1.9 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. Poughkeepsie's figures add up its 34 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Poughkeepsie has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 5.7% 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: 32,677. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Poughkeepsie, New York." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ny/poughkeepsie
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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