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Safest cities in New York? Lowest and highest property-crime candidates

Use this hub to compare validated New York city candidates by reported selected property-offense rate. It is a cautious city-page index, not a statewide safety ranking or personal-risk score.

Candidate-city rate 22.18 per 1,000 residents across listed cities; not a statewide risk score
Validated cities60Current candidate pages
Candidate population10,154,902Sum of listed city estimates
Selected offenses225,249FBI NIBRS offense records

Highest-rate city candidates

Use the city pages for source notes, trend handling, and offense mix. Small or ambiguous places remain outside automatic publication.

14,658 residents Johnson City Village 41.00 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 7,693 residents Niagara Town 40.17 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 86,428 residents Colonie Town 34.39 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 28,846 residents Gates Town 32.00 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 88,203 residents Cheektowaga Town 31.10 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 8,873 residents Seneca Falls Town 29.87 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents

Lowest-rate city candidates

Searchers often ask for the safest cities in a state. This section answers that intent carefully by showing the lowest reported selected property-offense rates among validated city candidates only.

13,484 residents Shawangunk Town 0.44 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 6,219 residents Woodstock Town 2.09 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 16,808 residents Bedford Town 2.44 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 34,161 residents Carmel Town 2.46 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 7,512 residents Eden Town 2.53 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 22,932 residents Fishkill Town 2.57 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents

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New York city candidates

City Population Selected offenses Rate per 1,000 Trend
Johnson City Village 14,658 601 41.00 Roughly stable
Niagara Town 7,693 309 40.17 Increasing
Colonie Town 86,428 2,972 34.39 Increasing
Gates Town 28,846 923 32.00 Increasing
Cheektowaga Town 88,203 2,743 31.10 Decreasing
Seneca Falls Town 8,873 265 29.87 Mixed
Endicott Village 13,142 385 29.30 Increasing
Vestal Town 31,884 867 27.19 Increasing
Poughkeepsie Town 45,713 1,107 24.22 Increasing
Ilion Village 7,519 182 24.21 Roughly stable
Massena Village 9,984 234 23.44 Increasing
New York 8,596,825 200,526 23.33 Roughly stable
Greece Town 94,598 1,975 20.88 Roughly stable
Spring Valley Village 34,286 697 20.33 Increasing
Ulster Town 12,669 249 19.65 Increasing
Irondequoit Town 50,300 972 19.32 Increasing
West Seneca Town 45,242 829 18.32 Increasing
Kenmore Village 14,865 260 17.49 Increasing
Rotterdam Town 30,870 529 17.14 Decreasing
Clarkstown Town 89,375 1,528 17.10 Increasing
Depew Village 14,855 250 16.83 Roughly stable
Riverhead Town 36,293 557 15.35 Trend pending
Amherst Town 130,752 1,968 15.05 Trend pending
Fredonia Village 9,322 133 14.27 Decreasing
East Rochester Village 6,142 81 13.19 Roughly stable
Bath Village 5,567 72 12.93 Increasing
Hempstead Village 59,805 711 11.89 Increasing
Bethlehem Town 35,396 373 10.54 Increasing
Potsdam Village 8,184 81 9.90 Increasing
Lloyd Town 11,141 107 9.60 Roughly stable
Freeport Village 44,185 404 9.14 Roughly stable
Haverstraw Town 40,268 344 8.54 Roughly stable
Southold Town 24,194 196 8.10 Decreasing
Lancaster Town 45,125 348 7.71 Trend pending
Suffern Village 11,767 88 7.48 Increasing
Yorktown Town 35,843 222 6.19 Roughly stable
Ogden Town 19,949 121 6.07 Decreasing
Saugerties Town 19,431 106 5.46 Decreasing
Canton Village 7,011 33 4.71 Increasing
Fairport Village 5,336 25 4.69 Roughly stable
Tarrytown Village 11,855 52 4.39 Increasing
Hamburg Village 9,788 42 4.29 Roughly stable
East Fishkill Town 29,737 127 4.27 Increasing
Walden Village 6,964 29 4.16 Decreasing
Hyde Park Town 21,307 87 4.08 Mixed
Old Westbury Village 5,049 20 3.96 Decreasing
Stony Point Town 15,267 58 3.80 Roughly stable
Plattekill Town 10,350 39 3.77 Increasing
Deerpark Town 7,499 28 3.73 Decreasing
Scarsdale Village 18,075 64 3.54 Decreasing
Kent Town 12,915 42 3.25 Trend pending
Brockport Village 7,728 25 3.23 Decreasing
Marlborough Town 9,006 26 2.89 Increasing
Rosendale Town 5,707 15 2.63 Mixed
Fishkill Town 22,932 59 2.57 Trend pending
Eden Town 7,512 19 2.53 Increasing
Carmel Town 34,161 84 2.46 Decreasing
Bedford Town 16,808 41 2.44 Increasing
Woodstock Town 6,219 13 2.09 Decreasing
Shawangunk Town 13,484 6 0.44 Decreasing

Important context

These figures are based on reported selected property offenses and Census population context for validated city candidates. Agency reporting boundaries can differ from municipal boundaries, so the methodology page explains why ambiguous or tiny-denominator rows stay out of automatic publication.

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