Crime in Tonawanda, New York
Major crime in Tonawanda is 22% below the U.S. rate per resident: 64% lower for persons crimes and 13% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.0% 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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Other larceny stands out most, at 38% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Tonawanda 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 Tonawanda
The middle half of Tonawanda residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 48 and 91; the typical (median) resident's is 52. The citywide figure (78) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5030.7%
- 50–10047.2%
- 100–20022.1%
- 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.
Highest on weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.0% 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.
Tonawanda against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
981 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Tonawanda; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Tonawanda 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, Tonawanda Town (2 mi), is 13% above Tonawanda's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Tonawanda
What are the most common crimes in Tonawanda?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 103 a year), shoplifting (about 29 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 26 a year). Compared with the U.S., other larceny stands out most: 38% 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. Tonawanda's figures add up its 15 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Tonawanda 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: 14,863. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Tonawanda, New York." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ny/tonawanda
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Tonawanda Town2 mi88
- North Tonawanda2 mi67
- Kenmore3 mi84
- Eggertsville5 mi146
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- Williamsville8 mi163
- Niagara Falls9 mi170
- Sloan9 mi125