Crime in Rensselaer, New York
Major crime in Rensselaer is 43% below the U.S. rate per resident: 49% lower for persons crimes and 42% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.4% 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 3.7 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Rensselaer 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 Rensselaer
The middle half of Rensselaer residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 34 and 92; the typical (median) resident's is 50.
- 0–5056.3%
- 50–10034.9%
- 100–2008.7%
- 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 weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.4% 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.
Rensselaer against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
1,192 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Rensselaer; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Rensselaer has a higher major-crime index than 1 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Menands (3 mi), is 1.6 times Rensselaer's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Rensselaer
What are the most common crimes in Rensselaer?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 43 a year), shoplifting (about 23 a year) and aggravated assault (about 12 a year). Compared with the U.S., intimidation stands out most: 3.7 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. Rensselaer's figures add up its 8 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Rensselaer 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: 9,541. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Rensselaer, New York." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ny/rensselaer
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Menands3 mi93
- Albany3 mi230
- Loudonville4 mi54
- Roessleville5 mi271
- Wynantskill5 mi63
- Watervliet5 mi112
- Latham6 mi197
- Troy7 mi172