Photo: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:N-Lange.de · CC BY-SA 3.0Ballston Spa sees less violent crime per resident than 88% of U.S. towns
A Safety Grade of A− follows from crimes Ballston Spa’s police reported over the years 2023 to 2025: #74 of 236 graded towns in New York. On top of that, its police logs show 0.4 violent crime and 5.8 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the rest of New York the numbers are 5.0 and 21.0. The crimes the grade counts held steady per resident from 2023 to 2025.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of NY” is every other New York city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in Ballston Spa
Among New York towns, closer to the middle
New York’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Ballston Spa’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 69% of the 236 New York towns we grade, against 83% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A job center
Ballston Spa has 3,749 jobs based in town for 4,900 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Ballston Spa’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are lower than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the stronger of the two.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Ballston Spa | Rest of New York | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.4 | 5.6 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.4 | 5.1 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.4 | 5.0 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.4 | 4.9 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Ballston Spa’s police reported 6 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.4 per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.0 in the rest of New York and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Ballston Spa per 1,000 residents
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And fewer than 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
How crime in Ballston Spa has moved
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| Year | Ballston Spa property | Rest of New York property | Ballston Spa violent | Rest of New York violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 4.9 | 20.0 | 1.4 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 5.3 | 22.2 | 0.4 | 5.1 |
| 2024 | 6.8 | 21.3 | 0.4 | 5.0 |
| 2025 | 5.3 | 19.7 | 0.4 | 4.9 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of New York.
28 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
2 violent and 26 property, as reported to the FBI by Ballston Spa’s police.
No one died in a crash on Ballston Spa’s roads in 2019–2023
That is about what is typical for New York towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (5.9 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Ballston Spa’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Ballston Spa’s own rate (0.0) is context, not a ranking.
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.
Ballston Spa and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ballston Spa | A− | 0.4 | 5.8 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
New York towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ballston Spa | A− | 0.4 | 5.8 |
| Chittenango | A | 0.3 | 3.5 |
| Pound Ridge | A | 0.2 | 3.8 |
| Old Westbury | A | 0.6 | 3.4 |
| Ardsley | A− | 0.3 | 8.0 |
| Southampton | B | 0.5 | 12.3 |
The five graded New York towns closest to Ballston Spa’s population (4,900), by grade.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
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.
- One number for all of Ballston Spa. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Ballston Spa’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (4,885 in 2025); our figure for Ballston Spa is 4,900 (2025 Census estimate).
- 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 Ballston Spa
Is Ballston Spa, NY safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Ballston Spa reports less crime per resident than 83% of U.S. towns, an A− Safety Grade and #74 of 236 in New York. Its police reported 0.4 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.0 in the rest of New York and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Ballston Spa?
0.4 violent and 5.8 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of New York reports 5.0 and 21.0; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Who polices Ballston Spa?
Ballston Spa’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Ballston Spa Village”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, 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.