Decision-support ranking comparing New York cities by current violent crime per 1,000 using the currently published coarse crime context, then routing readers into each city brief for tract context and caveats.
Ranked rows are precomputed and served as static HTML from R2.
| # | Place | Metric | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Albany Violent Crime has declined 12% since 2022. |
7.8 / 1k | → |
| 2 | Jamestown Violent Crime has declined 12% since 2021. |
7.4 / 1k | → |
| 3 | New York Violent Crime has been relatively flat over the tracked period. |
7.2 / 1k | → |
| 4 | Buffalo Violent Crime has declined 26% since 2021. |
7.0 / 1k | → |
| 5 | Watertown Violent Crime has increased 25% since 2021. |
7.0 / 1k | → |
| 6 | Poughkeepsie Violent Crime has declined 3% since 2023. |
6.3 / 1k | → |
| 7 | Schenectady Violent Crime has increased 11% since 2021. |
6.3 / 1k | → |
| 8 | Binghamton Violent Crime has declined 24% since 2021. |
5.7 / 1k | → |
| 9 | Rochester Violent Crime has declined 21% since 2022. |
5.6 / 1k | → |
| 10 | Utica Violent Crime has declined 3% since 2021. |
5.6 / 1k | → |
| 11 | Niagara Falls Violent Crime has declined 38% since 2021. |
4.9 / 1k | → |
| 12 | Batavia Violent Crime has declined 17% since 2021. |
4.4 / 1k | → |
| 13 | Port Jervis Violent Crime has declined 15% since 2021. |
4.1 / 1k | → |
| 14 | Middletown Violent Crime has increased 10% since 2021. |
3.3 / 1k | → |
| 15 | Hudson Violent Crime has declined 36% since 2021. |
3.0 / 1k | → |
| 16 | Yonkers Violent Crime has increased 7% since 2021. |
2.9 / 1k | → |
| 17 | Auburn Violent Crime has declined 13% since 2021. |
2.6 / 1k | → |
| 18 | Cortland Violent Crime has declined 26% since 2022. |
2.3 / 1k | → |
| 19 | Peekskill Violent Crime has declined 4% since 2023. |
2.2 / 1k | → |
| 20 | Ithaca Violent Crime has increased 47% since 2023. |
2.2 / 1k | → |
| 21 | Tonawanda Violent Crime does not yet have a long enough history to describe a full trend. |
1.8 / 1k | → |
| 22 | Glens Falls Violent Crime has increased 25% since 2021. |
1.5 / 1k | → |
| 23 | North Tonawanda Violent Crime has been relatively flat over the tracked period. |
1.5 / 1k | → |
| 24 | New Rochelle Violent Crime has declined 12% since 2021. |
1.4 / 1k | → |
| 25 | Beacon Violent Crime moved up by 0.5 / 1k from 0.8 / 1k in 2021 to 1.3 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage. |
1.3 / 1k | → |
This page is useful for a current statewide pressure screen. It compares supported New York cities by aggregate violent-crime rate before you open the deeper city briefs. Outside Colorado, this remains statewide fallback context rather than local incident-feed depth.
A current city rate does not tell you whether conditions are improving, how concentrated the pressure is, or which neighborhoods are driving it. Open the city brief and neighborhood pages next.