Crime in Syracuse, New York
Major crime in Syracuse is 2.3 times the U.S. rate per resident: 2.1 times for persons crimes and 2.3 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are about flat 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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Vandalism stands out most, at 4.7 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Syracuse 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 Syracuse
The middle half of Syracuse residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 111 and 284; the typical (median) resident's is 191. The citywide figure (229) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–506.2%
- 50–10013.5%
- 100–20034.4%
- 200–40036.9%
- 400+9.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 0.6% 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.
Syracuse against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
20 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Syracuse; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Syracuse has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Lyncourt (3 mi), is 8% above Syracuse's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Syracuse
What are the most common crimes in Syracuse?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 1,711 a year), motor vehicle theft (about 1,001 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 748 a year). Compared with the U.S., vandalism stands out most: 4.7 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. Syracuse's figures add up its 130 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Syracuse has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 93.9% 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: 144,573. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Syracuse, New York." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ny/syracuse
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100