CrimeMetric

Crime in West Hills, New York

Major crime in West Hills is 51% below the U.S. rate per resident: 82% lower for persons crimes and 44% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.7% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
49
51% below the U.S. rate
54% below the New York rate
down 9.7% in a year
Persons crimes
18
82% below the U.S. rate
84% below the New York rate
down 11.7% in a year
Property crimes
56
44% below the U.S. rate
47% below the New York rate
down 9.5% in a year
Social disorder
35
65% below the U.S. rate
66% below the New York rate
down 5.8% 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

Every crime type in West Hills is near or below the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in West Hills 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 West Hills

The middle half of West Hills residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 35 and 46; the typical (median) resident's is 37. The citywide figure (49) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of West Hills, 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.
  • 0–5076.6%
  • 50–10023.4%
  • 100–2000.0%
  • 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.

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 6pm45
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am56
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm48
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am46
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 9.7% in a year; across New York it fell 8.7%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-9.7%NY -8.7%-14.1%NY -14.4%
Persons crimes-11.7%NY -7.0%-5.3%NY -7.2%
Property crimes-9.5%NY -9.0%-14.7%NY -16.1%
Social disorder-5.8%NY -5.2%-6.1%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

West Hills against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents

1,401 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than West Hills; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:

Hiram, GA5,423265
Eastman, GA5,415258
Meridian, CO5,428109
Kula, HI5,425102
Violet, LA5,433101
Prien, LA5,43080
West Hills, NY5,42749
Tipton, IN5,43635

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

Nearby places

West Hills has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, South Huntington (2 mi), is 2.6 times West Hills's rate.

Plainview4 mi72
Syosset4 mi61
Woodbury2 mi57
West Hills49
Melville3 mi43

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

Questions about crime in West Hills

What are the most common crimes in West Hills?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 17 a year), shoplifting (about 15 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 6 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 15% below 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. West Hills's figures add up its 6 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • West Hills 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: 5,427. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in West Hills, New York." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ny/west-hills

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100