Crime rate & statistics
New York Crime Rate & Safety Statistics
What the five boroughs' numbers reveal once you adjust for the sheer scale of the city.
Key indices
New York crime at a glance
Index values are scaled so that 100 equals the U.S. average.
Your odds
Estimated victimization risk
Calibrated against national benchmark rates and expressed as everyday odds.
Trend
Is crime rising or falling in New York?
Reported incidents per month over the most recent year of data.
Context
How to read these numbers
For its size, New York posts a violent crime rate that compares favorably with many large American cities, the legacy of decades of decline from the early-1990s peak. The everyday concerns for most New Yorkers skew toward property crime, transit incidents, and quality-of-life complaints, and where those land varies enormously from one precinct to the next.
We translate New York's complaint volumes into estimated rates per 100,000 residents using national benchmarks, then express them as plain odds — roughly the “1 in N” chance over a year. The index is set so that 100 equals the national average, and our A-to-F grades follow one nationwide curve, meaning a New York “A” is held to the same standard as an “A” in any other city we cover.