Safest Places to Live in New York of October 2024

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When we think of New York, we usually think of New York City, the world’s capital, as some would say. And New York City is indeed an amazing place, full of life, vibrant and energetic, which is why over 8 million people live in it. The Metropolitan Museum and Opera, MoMA, Guggenheim Museum, Broadway, the Statue of Liberty, Central Park, and Times Square offer fantastic experiences to everyone who can afford to live in it.

However, the State of New York is great in its own right. Niagara Falls, the Great Lakes, and many more breathtaking locations can be visited by taking a few-hour drive from New York City. The State of New York was one of the original 13 colonies and has been extremely important in the United States’ history.

Ranking Criteria

ElitePersonalFinance extracted the latest data from the FBI crime statistics in the United States. We took violent crime as the main criteria. To get our score, we used this formula:

Crime Score = ( Total Number of Violent Crimes / Population ) * 1,000

This way, safer cities got the lowest score, and those more vulnerable to crimes got higher scores.

The cities that did not report crimes to the FBI and those under 10,000 residents were not included in the list.

50 Safest Places in New York of October 2024

Rank:	City:	Population:	Total Number of Crimes:	Crime Score:
1	Sleepy Hollow Village	10 080	0	0,00
2	Lewisboro Town	12 582	0	0,00
3	Harrison Town	27 946	0	0,00
4	New Castle Town	17 896	1	0,06
5	Bedford Town	17 791	1	0,06
6	Rye	15 756	1	0,06
7	Shawangunk Town	13 853	2	0,14
8	East Aurora-Aurora Town	13 785	2	0,15
9	Eastchester Town	20 073	3	0,15
10	Mamaroneck Town	12 088	2	0,17
11	Cicero Town	28 732	5	0,17
12	Glen Cove	27 228	5	0,18
13	Hyde Park Town	20 808	4	0,19
14	Plattekill Town	10 160	2	0,20
15	Yorktown Town	36 426	8	0,22
16	Carmel Town	34 251	8	0,23
17	Lewiston Town and Village	15 763	4	0,25
18	Woodbury Town	11 006	3	0,27
19	Port Washington	19 396	6	0,31
20	North Castle Town	12 248	4	0,33
21	Scarsdale Village	17 954	6	0,33
22	Dobbs Ferry Village	10 990	4	0,36
23	Fishkill Town	21 307	8	0,38
24	Kent Town	13 235	5	0,38
25	Geddes Town	10 038	4	0,40
26	Garden City Village	22 514	9	0,40
27	Rockville Centre Village	24 669	10	0,41
28	Niskayuna Town	22 407	11	0,49
29	Ogden Town	20 144	10	0,50
30	Floral Park Village	15 927	8	0,50
31	Blooming Grove Town	11 816	6	0,51
32	Tarrytown Village	11 416	6	0,53
33	Glenville Town	21 634	12	0,55
34	Lancaster Town	37 571	21	0,56
35	Long Beach	33 552	19	0,57
36	East Greenbush Town	16 324	10	0,61
37	Stony Point Town	15 413	10	0,65
38	Lynbrook Village	19 492	13	0,67
39	Lloyd Town	10 463	7	0,67
40	Guilderland Town	34 133	23	0,67
41	Brighton Town	36 036	25	0,69
42	Clarkstown Town	80 599	56	0,69
43	Camillus Town and Village	24 160	17	0,70
44	Newburgh Town	31 128	22	0,71
45	Port Chester Village	29 317	21	0,72
46	Ramapo Town	94 633	68	0,72
47	Kenmore Village	15 025	11	0,73
48	Southold Town	19 915	15	0,75
49	Schodack Town	11 722	9	0,77
50	Colonie Town	79 509	62	0,78

Crime Score in All Cities in New York of October 2024

If your city didn’t make our list, you could see our full list of New York cities.

We can’t compare crime rates in small and large cities. That’s why ElitePersonalFinance made a detailed analysis and narrowed the results according to population segments:

Under 3,000 Residents
3,000 – 10,000 Residents
10,000 – 30,000 Residents
30,000 – 100,000 Residents
Over 100,000 Residents

(Other sites don’t include places with under 3,000 residents, but we included them.)

These are the results that we got:

Under 3,000 Residents

Rank:	City:	Population:	Total Number of Crimes:	Crime Score:
1	Ocean Beach Village	83	0	0,00
2	Galway Village	194	0	0,00
3	Inlet Town	302	0	0,00
4	Centre Island Village	410	0	0,00
5	Glen Park Village	481	0	0,00
6	Barker	505	0	0,00
7	Asharoken Village	644	0	0,00
8	Cape Vincent Village	702	0	0,00
9	Theresa Village	788	0	0,00
10	Afton Village	796	0	0,00
11	Angelica Village	818	0	0,00
12	Schoharie Village	818	0	0,00
13	Belmont Village	904	0	0,00
14	Cattaraugus Village	907	0	0,00
15	Dexter Village	1 011	0	0,00
16	Brownville Village	1 093	0	0,00
17	Nassau Village	1 101	0	0,00
18	Vernon Village	1 156	0	0,00
19	Kensington Village	1 189	0	0,00
20	Moravia Village	1 200	0	0,00
21	Black River	1 253	0	0,00
22	Philmont Village	1 260	0	0,00
23	Jordan Village	1 298	0	0,00
24	Sherburne Village	1 302	0	0,00
25	Oriskany Village	1 329	0	0,00
26	Oxford Village	1 379	0	0,00
27	Sackets Harbor Village	1 413	0	0,00
28	Greene Village	1 415	0	0,00
29	Shortsville Village	1 419	0	0,00
30	Huntington Bay Village	1 434	0	0,00
31	New Berlin Town	1 510	0	0,00
32	Ellicottville	1 575	0	0,00
33	Manchester Village	1 618	0	0,00
34	Chatham Village	1 619	0	0,00
35	Franklinville Village	1 632	0	0,00
36	Greenwich Village	1 708	0	0,00
37	Weedsport Village	1 711	0	0,00
38	Marcellus Village	1 717	0	0,00
39	Nissequogue Village	1 731	0	0,00
40	Adams Village	1 735	0	0,00
41	Central Square Village	1 749	0	0,00
42	Cambridge Village	1 794	0	0,00
43	Westhampton Beach Village	1 811	0	0,00
44	Clayton Village	1 828	0	0,00
45	Friendship Town	1 869	0	0,00
46	Youngstown Village	1 879	0	0,00
47	West Carthage Village	1 957	0	0,00
48	Brant Town	2 055	0	0,00
49	Camden Village	2 164	0	0,00
50	Liverpool Village	2 202	0	0,00
51	Pulaski Village	2 227	0	0,00
52	Bolton Town	2 251	0	0,00
53	Groton Village	2 278	0	0,00
54	Sag Harbor Village	2 298	0	0,00
55	Brewster	2 345	0	0,00
56	Pine Plains Town	2 402	0	0,00
57	Attica Village	2 411	0	0,00
58	Cohocton Town	2 452	0	0,00
59	Skaneateles Village	2 464	0	0,00
60	Piermont Village	2 538	0	0,00
61	Coxsackie Village	2 653	0	0,00
62	Durham Town	2 659	0	0,00
63	Florida Village	2 851	0	0,00
64	Great Neck Estates Village	2 884	0	0,00
65	Tuxedo Town	2 901	0	0,00
66	Shandaken Town	2 947	0	0,00
67	Millerton Village	2 958	0	0,00
68	Westfield Village	2 981	0	0,00
69	Sherrill	2 991	0	0,00
70	Cornwall-on-Hudson Village	2 914	1	0,34
71	Sands Point Village	2 912	1	0,34
72	Akron Village	2 851	1	0,35
73	Rhinebeck Village	2 556	1	0,39
74	Old Brookville Village	2 202	1	0,45
75	Canajoharie Village	2 136	1	0,47
76	Fishkill Village	2 071	1	0,48
77	Boonville Village	1 995	1	0,50
78	Red Hook Village	1 956	1	0,51
79	Cold Spring Village	1 955	1	0,51
80	Painted Post Village	1 953	1	0,51
81	Watkins Glen Village	1 905	1	0,52
82	Webb Town	1 790	1	0,56
83	Trumansburg Village	1 757	1	0,57
84	Middleport Village	1 745	1	0,57
85	Allegany Village	1 707	1	0,59
86	St. Johnsville Village	1 679	1	0,60
87	Holley Village	1 676	1	0,60
88	Deposit Village	1 524	1	0,66
89	Cazenovia Village	2 842	2	0,70
90	Buchanan Village	2 243	2	0,89
91	Quogue Village	1 015	1	0,99
92	Arcade Village	1 933	2	1,03
93	Mohawk Village	2 533	3	1,18
94	Windham Town	1 675	2	1,19
95	Addison Town and Village	2 471	3	1,21
96	Harriman Village	2 439	3	1,23
97	Granville Village	2 422	3	1,24
98	Lake Placid Village	2 369	3	1,27
99	Norwood Village	1 553	2	1,29
100	Clyde Village	1 937	3	1,55
101	Gowanda Village	2 575	4	1,55
102	Independence Town	1 137	2	1,76
103	Phoenix Village	2 242	4	1,78
104	Blasdell Village	2 665	5	1,88
105	Canisteo Village	2 131	4	1,88
106	Dryden Village	2 121	4	1,89
107	Hancock Village	934	2	2,14
108	Frankfort Village	2 432	6	2,47
109	Colchester Town	1 965	5	2,54
110	Fort Plain Village	2 224	9	4,05
111	Woodridge Village	776	4	5,15

3,000 – 10,000 Residents

Rank:	City:	Population:	Total Number of Crimes:	Crime Score:
1	Lake Success Village	3 153	0	0,00
2	New York Mills Village	3 217	0	0,00
3	Carroll Town	3 329	0	0,00
4	Cayuga Heights Village	3 666	0	0,00
5	Hamilton Village	4 081	0	0,00
6	Chester Village	4 120	0	0,00
7	Greenport Town	4 286	0	0,00
8	Montgomery Village	4 621	0	0,00
9	Waterloo Village	4 885	0	0,00
10	Elmira Town	5 589	0	0,00
11	Bronxville Village	6 459	0	0,00
12	Irvington Village	6 506	0	0,00
13	Tuckahoe Village	6 584	0	0,00
14	Northport Village	7 288	0	0,00
15	Baldwinsville Village	7 931	0	0,00
16	Briarcliff Manor Village	8 267	0	0,00
17	Kirkland Town	8 329	0	0,00
18	Highlands Town	8 444	0	0,00
19	Whitestown Town	9 096	0	0,00
20	Rye Brook Village	9 530	0	0,00
21	Crawford Town	9 171	1	0,11
22	Stillwater Town	7 300	1	0,14
23	Mount Hope Town	6 624	1	0,15
24	Cairo Town	6 413	1	0,16
25	Rosendale Town	5 826	1	0,17
26	Washingtonville Village	5 740	1	0,17
27	Pound Ridge Town	5 159	1	0,19
28	Hamburg Village	9 725	2	0,21
29	Chittenango Village	4 835	1	0,21
30	Old Westbury Village	4 752	1	0,21
31	Cornwall Town	9 502	2	0,21
32	Moriah Town	4 557	1	0,22
33	Ardsley Village	4 538	1	0,22
34	Potsdam Village	8 917	2	0,22
35	Goshen Town	8 798	2	0,23
36	Dansville Village	4 389	1	0,23
37	Norfolk Town	4 375	1	0,23
38	Oyster Bay Cove Village	4 296	1	0,23
39	Waterford Town and Village	8 574	2	0,23
40	Malverne Village	8 514	2	0,23
41	Alfred Village	3 988	1	0,25
42	Hastings-on-Hudson Village	7 916	2	0,25
43	Eden Town	7 621	2	0,26
44	Maybrook Village	3 791	1	0,26
45	Carthage Village	3 336	1	0,30
46	Walden Village	6 670	2	0,30
47	Southampton Village	3 326	1	0,30
48	Amityville Village	9 430	3	0,32
49	Homer Village	3 100	1	0,32
50	Cuba Town	3 083	1	0,32
51	Larchmont Village	6 096	2	0,33
52	Marlborough Town	8 601	3	0,35
53	Geneseo Village	8 158	3	0,37
54	Croton-on-Hudson Village	8 131	3	0,37
55	Goshen Village	5 337	2	0,37
56	Fairport Village	5 334	2	0,37
57	Kings Point Village	5 312	2	0,38
58	Ballston Spa Village	5 257	2	0,38
59	Canton Village	6 407	3	0,47
60	Niagara Town	7 958	4	0,50
61	Woodstock Town	5 781	3	0,52
62	Macedon Town and Village	8 877	5	0,56
63	Elmsford Village	5 295	3	0,57
64	Pelham Village	6 911	4	0,58
65	Fort Edward Village	3 253	2	0,61
66	Frankfort Town	4 817	3	0,62
67	Horseheads Village	6 390	4	0,63
68	Greenwood Lake Village	3 074	2	0,65
69	Lakewood-Busti	7 193	5	0,70
70	Waverly Village	4 119	3	0,73
71	Saranac Lake Village	5 221	4	0,77
72	Monroe Village	8 593	7	0,81
73	Lloyd Harbor Village	3 667	3	0,82
74	Pleasantville Village	7 261	6	0,83
75	Lowville Village	3 315	3	0,90
76	East Rochester Village	6 522	6	0,92
77	Chester Town	8 043	8	0,99
78	Penn Yan Village	4 910	5	1,02
79	Menands Village	3 885	4	1,03
80	Seneca Falls Town	8 632	9	1,04
81	Elmira Heights Village	3 819	4	1,05
82	South Glens Falls Village	3 677	4	1,09
83	Perry Village	3 442	4	1,16
84	Palmyra Village	3 316	4	1,21
85	Brockport Village	8 241	10	1,21
86	Pelham Manor Village	5 567	7	1,26
87	Mechanicville	5 072	7	1,38
88	Deerpark Town	7 714	11	1,43
89	Hoosick Falls Village	3 359	5	1,49
90	Warsaw Village	3 251	5	1,54
91	Canastota Village	4 513	7	1,55
92	Catskill Village	3 797	6	1,58
93	Johnstown	8 198	13	1,59
94	Scotia Village	7 641	15	1,96
95	Hudson Falls Village	7 023	14	1,99
96	Wellsville Village	4 366	9	2,06
97	Ticonderoga Town	4 790	10	2,09
98	Solvay Village	6 227	13	2,09
99	North Syracuse Village	6 637	14	2,11
100	Medina Village	5 631	12	2,13
101	Malone Village	5 581	12	2,15
102	Bath Village	5 446	12	2,20
103	Ellenville Village	3 980	9	2,26
104	Coeymans Town	7 297	17	2,33
105	Delhi Village	3 094	8	2,59
106	Ellicott Town	5 014	13	2,59
107	Albion Village	5 802	17	2,93
108	Newark Village	8 799	28	3,18
109	Little Falls	4 642	15	3,23
110	Cobleskill Village	4 329	15	3,47
111	Monticello Village	6 392	25	3,91
112	Norwich	6 581	28	4,25
113	Port Jervis	8 523	37	4,34
114	Owego Village	3 887	17	4,37
115	Salamanca	5 439	24	4,41
116	Watervliet	9 954	44	4,42
117	Sidney Village	3 573	16	4,48
118	Ilion Village	7 685	38	4,94
119	Herkimer Village	7 291	41	5,62
120	Liberty Village	4 083	29	7,10

10,000 – 30,000 Residents

Rank:	City:	Population:	Total Number of Crimes:	Crime Score:
1	Sleepy Hollow Village	10 080	0	0,00
2	Lewisboro Town	12 582	0	0,00
3	Harrison Town	27 946	0	0,00
4	New Castle Town	17 896	1	0,06
5	Bedford Town	17 791	1	0,06
6	Rye	15 756	1	0,06
7	Shawangunk Town	13 853	2	0,14
8	East Aurora-Aurora Town	13 785	2	0,15
9	Eastchester Town	20 073	3	0,15
10	Mamaroneck Town	12 088	2	0,17
11	Cicero Town	28 732	5	0,17
12	Glen Cove	27 228	5	0,18
13	Hyde Park Town	20 808	4	0,19
14	Plattekill Town	10 160	2	0,20
15	Lewiston Town and Village	15 763	4	0,25
16	Woodbury Town	11 006	3	0,27
17	Port Washington	19 396	6	0,31
18	North Castle Town	12 248	4	0,33
19	Scarsdale Village	17 954	6	0,33
20	Dobbs Ferry Village	10 990	4	0,36
21	Fishkill Town	21 307	8	0,38
22	Kent Town	13 235	5	0,38
23	Geddes Town	10 038	4	0,40
24	Garden City Village	22 514	9	0,40
25	Rockville Centre Village	24 669	10	0,41
26	Niskayuna Town	22 407	11	0,49
27	Ogden Town	20 144	10	0,50
28	Floral Park Village	15 927	8	0,50
29	Blooming Grove Town	11 816	6	0,51
30	Tarrytown Village	11 416	6	0,53
31	Glenville Town	21 634	12	0,55
32	East Greenbush Town	16 324	10	0,61
33	Stony Point Town	15 413	10	0,65
34	Lynbrook Village	19 492	13	0,67
35	Lloyd Town	10 463	7	0,67
36	Camillus Town and Village	24 160	17	0,70
37	Port Chester Village	29 317	21	0,72
38	Kenmore Village	15 025	11	0,73
39	Southold Town	19 915	15	0,75
40	Schodack Town	11 722	9	0,77
41	Manlius Town	24 168	19	0,79
42	Ossining Village	24 991	20	0,80
43	Orchard Park Town	29 599	24	0,81
44	Mamaroneck Village	19 183	16	0,83
45	New Hartford Town and Village	20 294	17	0,84
46	Depew Village	15 008	15	1,00
47	New Windsor Town	27 971	28	1,00
48	Rotterdam Town	29 855	32	1,07
49	Massena Village	10 177	11	1,08
50	Peekskill	24 243	30	1,24
51	Evans Town	16 118	20	1,24
52	Wallkill Town	29 236	37	1,27
53	Ulster Town	12 625	16	1,27
54	Saugerties Town	19 095	27	1,41
55	DeWitt Town	25 000	36	1,44
56	Geneva	12 708	20	1,57
57	Beacon	14 510	24	1,65
58	Dunkirk	11 712	21	1,79
59	Plattsburgh City	19 367	36	1,86
60	Gates Town	28 366	55	1,94
61	Glens Falls	14 306	28	1,96
62	Cohoes	16 717	37	2,21
63	Amsterdam	17 773	40	2,25
64	Saratoga Springs	28 186	64	2,27
65	Oneonta City	13 915	34	2,44
66	Tonawanda	14 754	38	2,58
67	Cortland	18 655	55	2,95
68	Oswego City	17 239	51	2,96
69	Kingston	22 844	68	2,98
70	Elmira	26 958	83	3,08
71	Middletown	27 801	87	3,13
72	Olean	13 499	45	3,33
73	Ogdensburg	10 484	36	3,43
74	Oneida	10 864	41	3,77
75	Johnson City Village	14 196	61	4,30
76	Canandaigua	10 217	45	4,40
77	Gloversville	14 738	66	4,48
78	Lackawanna	17 724	81	4,57
79	Watertown	25 102	154	6,13
80	Jamestown	29 102	199	6,84
81	Newburgh	28 070	317	11,29

30,000 – 100,000 Residents

Rank:	City:	Population:	Total Number of Crimes:	Crime Score:
1	Yorktown Town	36 426	8	0,22
2	Carmel Town	34 251	8	0,23
3	Lancaster Town	37 571	21	0,56
4	Long Beach	33 552	19	0,57
5	Guilderland Town	34 133	23	0,67
6	Brighton Town	36 036	25	0,69
7	Clarkstown Town	80 599	56	0,69
8	Newburgh Town	31 128	22	0,71
9	Ramapo Town	94 633	68	0,72
10	Colonie Town	79 509	62	0,78
11	Bethlehem Town	35 275	29	0,82
12	Southampton Town	51 090	46	0,90
13	Orangetown Town	37 371	34	0,91
14	Hamburg Town	46 445	43	0,93
15	Greenburgh Town	45 040	43	0,95
16	Riverhead Town	33 536	33	0,98
17	New Rochelle	78 936	98	1,24
18	Ithaca	31 122	41	1,32
19	North Tonawanda	30 228	44	1,46
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