Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Crime and safety in East Hampton, NY
Within a 25-mile drive lie 4 towns that have a grade. East Hampton reports no crime figures of its own to the FBI for 2023–2025, so there is no Safety Grade. For a graded neighbor, the nearest is Shelter Island (A−), 10 miles away.
For every 1,000 residents, about 4 property crimes reported
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2022
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2022
Crimes reported to police in 2022 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And fewer than 1 violent crime, in 2022. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
The years East Hampton’s police reported
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| Year | East Hampton | Rest of New York | East Hampton | Rest of New York |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3.7 | 20.0 | 0.2 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | not reported | 22.2 | not reported | 5.1 |
| 2024 | not reported | 21.3 | not reported | 5.0 |
| 2025 | not reported | 19.7 | not reported | 4.9 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents, against the rest of New York. A year the department didn’t report in full is a gap, not a zero.
100 crimes reported in 2022
2022 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
4 violent and 96 property, as reported to the FBI by East Hampton’s police.
The nearest New York towns with a Safety Grade
| Town | Grade | Distance | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shelter Island | A− | 10 mi | 0.7 | 5.5 |
| Southold | B+ | 12 mi | 0.5 | 8.3 |
| Southampton | B | 22 mi | 0.5 | 12.3 |
| Southampton | A− | 24 mi | 0.5 | 7.0 |
| Quogue | A− | 32 mi | 0.2 | 6.4 |
| Riverhead | C | 33 mi | 1.1 | 21.8 |
Straight-line distance from the center of East Hampton. Nearby towns can differ a lot from East Hampton.
Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Seven people died in crashes on East Hampton’s roads in 2019–2023
East Hampton had 7 fatal crashes in five years, in which seven people died; 2 were pedestrians and 2 were cyclists.
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 East Hampton’s size would see about 7 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so East Hampton’s own rate (4.9) 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.
East Hampton and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southold | B+ | 0.5 | 8.3 |
| Southampton | A− | 0.5 | 7.0 |
| Shelter Island | A− | 0.7 | 5.5 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
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 East Hampton. 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 East Hampton’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (25,765 in 2022); our figure for East Hampton is 29,400 (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 East Hampton
Is East Hampton, NY safe?
There is no Safety Grade for East Hampton. East Hampton 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 Shelter Island (A−, 10 mi), Southold (B+, 12 mi), Southampton (B, 22 mi).
Who polices East Hampton?
East Hampton’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “East Hampton Town”. 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, 2022, 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.