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Safety in Babylon · Not graded

Recorded crime in Babylon, without a grade

A 25-mile circle around it holds 14 towns with a grade. Inside a 10-mile circle, only Amityville carries a grade. There are no FBI figures for Babylon by itself for 2023–2025, so the grade has nothing to work from.

Nearest with figures

The nearest New York towns with a Safety Grade

TownGradeDistanceViolentProperty
AmityvilleB+6 mi0.310.4
FreeportB14 mi1.59.1
HempsteadC16 mi4.710.5
Rockville CentreA17 mi0.34.8
BrookvilleA18 mi0.25.7
Old WestburyA18 mi0.63.4

Straight-line distance from the center of Babylon. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Babylon.

Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

On the roads

100 people died in crashes on Babylon’s roads in 2019–2023

Babylon had 95 fatal crashes in five years, in which 100 people died; 35 were pedestrians and 6 were cyclists.

That is 9.2 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for New York towns of 100,000+ people (6.3, 16 towns).

100
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
35
pedestrians among them
6
cyclists among them
9.2
per 100,000 a year · New York towns of 100,000+: 6.3

Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.

Next door

Babylon and its neighbors

A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty
Islip———
Babylon (village)———
Oyster Bay———
Huntington———
AmityvilleB+0.310.4

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Islip, Babylon (village), Oyster Bay and Huntington have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025.

How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
  • A county agency covers a wide area. Its totals mix many communities, so they say little about any one of them.
  • Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.

How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →

Questions about safety in Babylon

Is Babylon, NY safe?

There is no Safety Grade for Babylon. Babylon has no FBI crime figures of its own for 2023–2025, so there is nothing to grade it on. The nearest New York towns with a grade are Amityville (B+, 6 mi), Freeport (B, 14 mi), Hempstead (C, 16 mi).

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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.