CrimeMetric

Crime in Selden, New York

Major crime in Selden is 55% below the U.S. rate per resident: 82% lower for persons crimes and 49% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.5% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
45
55% below the U.S. rate
57% below the New York rate
down 9.5% in a year
Persons crimes
18
82% below the U.S. rate
84% below the New York rate
down 10.9% in a year
Property crimes
51
49% below the U.S. rate
51% below the New York rate
down 9.4% in a year
Social disorder
27
73% below the U.S. rate
74% 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

No crime type in Selden is more than 10% above the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Selden 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 Selden

The middle half of Selden residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 13 and 52; the typical (median) resident's is 33. The citywide figure (45) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Selden, 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.
  • 0–5066.9%
  • 50–10027.1%
  • 100–2000.0%
  • 200–4006.0%
  • 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 6pm42
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am51
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm47
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am44
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 9.5% in a year; across New York it fell 8.7%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-9.5%NY -8.7%-13.5%NY -14.4%
Persons crimes-10.9%NY -7.0%-3.4%NY -7.2%
Property crimes-9.4%NY -9.0%-14.3%NY -16.1%
Social disorder-5.6%NY -5.2%-5.1%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

Selden against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents

1,596 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Selden; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Lexington, NC21,963169
Cocoa, FL21,941155
Mukilteo, WA21,98685
Portland, TX21,95460
Selden, NY21,95445

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

Nearby places

Selden 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, Terryville (2 mi), is 22% above Selden's rate.

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

Questions about crime in Selden

What are the most common crimes in Selden?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 77 a year), other larceny (about 50 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 17 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 10% 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. Selden's figures add up its 13 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Selden 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: 21,954. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Selden, New York." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ny/selden

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100