Photo: Andre Carrotflower · CC BY-SA 4.0In Dansville, the kinds of crime the grade counts fell 58% per resident from 2023 to 2025
It has less violent crime than 73% of U.S. towns, but less property crime than only 28%. Its letter overall is C+ (#150 of 236 graded towns in New York): close to the middle of U.S. towns, from crimes its police reported through 2023 to 2025. Even so, for every 1,000 residents, 0.8 violent crime and 17.6 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the rest of New York, the figures are 5.0 and 21.0.
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 Dansville
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 Dansville’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds Dansville’s grade up; property crime pulls it down. Its property rate (17.6) 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 | Dansville property | Rest of New York property | Dansville violent | Rest of New York violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 18.7 | 19.9 | 0.2 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 23.2 | 22.2 | 1.4 | 5.1 |
| 2024 | 19.4 | 21.3 | 0.7 | 5.0 |
| 2025 | 9.9 | 19.7 | 0.5 | 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 | Dansville | Rest of New York | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.2 | 5.6 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.4 | 5.1 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.7 | 5.0 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.5 | 4.9 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Dansville’s police reported 11 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.8 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 Dansville 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 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
45 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. 2025 figures come from FBI Crime Data Explorer, which publishes violent crime, homicides, robberies and property crime only.
2 violent and 43 property, as reported to the FBI by Dansville’s police.
One person died in crashes on Dansville’s roads in 2019–2023
Dansville had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which one person died.
That is about what is typical for New York towns of 2,500–5,000 people: at their median rate (6.1 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Dansville’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Dansville’s own rate (4.3) 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.
Dansville and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dansville | C+ | 0.8 | 17.6 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
New York towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dansville | C+ | 0.8 | 17.6 |
| Norfolk | A+ | 0.4 | 0.7 |
| Little Falls | A− | 1.0 | 5.2 |
| Canastota | B+ | 1.4 | 5.0 |
| Le Roy | B− | 1.3 | 12.1 |
| Owego | C+ | 2.8 | 12.5 |
The five graded New York towns closest to Dansville’s population (4,342), 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 Dansville. 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 Dansville’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (4,327 in 2025); our figure for Dansville is 4,342 (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 Dansville
Is Dansville, NY safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Dansville reports more crime per resident than 56% of U.S. towns, a C+ Safety Grade and #150 of 236 in New York. Its police reported 0.8 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 Dansville?
0.8 violent and 17.6 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 Dansville?
Dansville’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Dansville Village Police Department”. 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.