Photo: Kenneth C. Zirkel · CC BY 4.0In Cohoes, the kinds of crime the grade counts fell 36% per resident from 2023 to 2025
One of the 3 towns next door with figures records less crime per resident. Add to that, typical years here bring 2.4 violent crimes plus 11.8 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, against 5.0 plus 21.1 in the rest of New York. Taking everything together, Cohoes scores C+ (#153 of 236 graded towns in New York): close to the middle of U.S. towns, measured on crimes its police reported between 2023 and 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 Cohoes
1 of the 3 graded towns next door reports less crime
Of the 4 New York towns on Cohoes’ borders, 3 have a Safety Grade: Waterford (A), Colonie (C−), Troy (D). Green Island has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025. Neighbors ↓
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 Cohoes’ 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 higher than in most U.S. towns; property crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its violent rate (2.4) is below the FBI’s national estimate (3.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns. Its property rate (11.8) is below the FBI’s national estimate (17.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Cohoes property | Rest of New York property | Cohoes violent | Rest of New York violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 14.8 | 20.0 | 2.7 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 15.7 | 22.2 | 2.5 | 5.1 |
| 2024 | 11.0 | 21.3 | 1.9 | 5.0 |
| 2025 | 9.0 | 19.7 | 2.8 | 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.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Cohoes | Rest of New York | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2.7 | 5.6 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 2.5 | 5.1 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.9 | 5.0 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 2.8 | 4.9 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Cohoes’ police reported 131 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 2.4 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 Cohoes 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 about 3 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
219 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.
52 violent and 167 property, as reported to the FBI by Cohoes’ police.
Three people died in crashes on Cohoes’s roads in 2019–2023
Cohoes had 3 fatal crashes in five years, in which three people died. 1 died in crash on an Interstate.
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 Cohoes’s size would see about 5 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Cohoes’s own rate (3.3) 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.
Cohoes and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cohoes | C+ | 2.4 | 11.8 |
| Colonie | C− | 1.4 | 32.8 |
| Waterford | A | 0.3 | 2.9 |
| Green Island | — | — | — |
| Troy | D | 4.6 | 26.6 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Green Island has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025.
New York towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cohoes | C+ | 2.4 | 11.8 |
| Whitestown | A+ | 0.0 | 3.6 |
| Scarsdale | A | 0.1 | 3.9 |
| Saugerties | A− | 0.5 | 5.3 |
| Blooming Grove | A− | 0.7 | 5.7 |
| Lackawanna | C | 3.4 | 17.4 |
The five graded New York towns closest to Cohoes’ population (18,518), 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 Cohoes. 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 Cohoes’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (18,639 in 2025); our figure for Cohoes is 18,518 (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 Cohoes
Is Cohoes, NY safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Cohoes reports more crime per resident than 57% of U.S. towns, a C+ Safety Grade and #153 of 236 in New York. Its police reported 2.4 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 Cohoes?
2.4 violent and 11.8 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of New York reports 5.0 and 21.1; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Is Cohoes safer than Colonie?
Colonie reports more crime per resident than Cohoes: Colonie grades C− for safety and Cohoes C+. Colonie’s police reported 1.4 violent and 32.8 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Cohoes?
Cohoes’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Cohoes”. 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.