Nine Mile Creek Aqueduct · Photo: Lvklock · CC BY-SA 3.0On violent crime, Camillus has a lower rate per resident than 85% of U.S. towns
Per resident, the graded crimes were down 24% from 2023 to 2025. Camillus grades B+ for safety overall (#96 of 236 graded towns in New York): less crime per resident than 74% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025. On top of that, in a usual year, 0.5 violent crime and 8.2 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the rest of New York, 5.0 and 21.1.
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 Camillus
Camillus reports less crime than every graded town next door
Of the 6 New York towns on Camillus’ borders, 1 have a Safety Grade: Geddes (C+). Van Buren, Marcellus, Onondaga and Elbridge have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025. Solvay reported to the FBI for 2023 and 2025 but not 2024. Neighbors ↓
Among New York towns, closer to the middle
New York’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Camillus’ place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 59% of the 236 New York towns we grade, against 74% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Reported crime is falling
Crime reported per resident fell from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Camillus’ 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 | Camillus | Rest of New York | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.6 | 5.6 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.6 | 5.1 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.5 | 5.0 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.4 | 4.9 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Camillus’ police reported 37 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.5 per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.0 in the rest of New York and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Camillus property | Rest of New York property | Camillus violent | Rest of New York violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 11.9 | 20.0 | 0.6 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 9.7 | 22.3 | 0.6 | 5.1 |
| 2024 | 7.5 | 21.3 | 0.5 | 5.0 |
| 2025 | 7.4 | 19.7 | 0.4 | 4.9 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of New York.
Crime in Camillus 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.
196 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.
10 violent and 186 property, as reported to the FBI by Camillus’ police.
Five people died in crashes on Camillus’s roads in 2019–2023
Camillus had 5 fatal crashes in five years, in which five people died.
That is about what is typical for New York towns of 25,000–100,000 people: at their median rate (4.5 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Camillus’s size would see about 6 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Camillus’s own rate (4.0) 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.
Camillus and its neighbors
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Van Buren, Marcellus, Onondaga and Elbridge have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025. Solvay reported to the FBI for 2023 and 2025 but not 2024.
New York towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camillus | B+ | 0.5 | 8.2 |
| Rockville Centre | A | 0.3 | 4.8 |
| Southold | B+ | 0.5 | 8.3 |
| Peekskill | B− | 2.3 | 8.1 |
| Auburn | C | 2.8 | 15.8 |
| DeWitt | C− | 1.9 | 32.1 |
The five graded New York towns closest to Camillus’ population (25,088), 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 Camillus. 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 Camillus’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (25,266 in 2025); our figure for Camillus is 25,088 (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 Camillus
Is Camillus, NY safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Camillus reports less crime per resident than 74% of U.S. towns, a B+ Safety Grade and #96 of 236 in New York. Its police reported 0.5 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 Camillus?
0.5 violent and 8.2 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of New York reports 5.0 and 21.1; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
How many homicides were there in Camillus in 2025?
Camillus’s police reported 0 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 0.0 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Is Camillus safer than Geddes?
Geddes reports more crime per resident than Camillus: Geddes grades C+ for safety and Camillus B+. Geddes’s police reported 1.0 violent and 17.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Camillus?
Camillus’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Camillus Town and 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.