Photo: Anthony22 at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0Eastchester records less violent crime per head than 96% of U.S. towns
Next door, 3 of 6 towns with figures record less crime per resident. Behind the grade sit 0.1 violent crime and 5.5 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 5.0 and 21.1 in the rest of New York. Overall, Eastchester grades A for safety (#56 of 236 graded towns in New York): less crime per resident than 88% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported 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 Eastchester
3 of the 6 graded towns next door report less crime
Of the 6 New York towns on Eastchester’s borders, 6 have a Safety Grade: Tuckahoe (A+), Scarsdale (A), Bronxville (A), New Rochelle (B−), Yonkers (C+), Mount Vernon (C−). Neighbors ↓
Among New York towns, closer to the middle
New York’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Eastchester’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 76% of the 236 New York towns we grade, against 88% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Eastchester’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 | Eastchester | Rest of New York | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.2 | 5.6 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.2 | 5.1 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.2 | 5.0 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.0 | 4.9 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Eastchester’s police reported 9 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.1 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 Eastchester 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 no violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Eastchester property | Rest of New York property | Eastchester violent | Rest of New York violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6.7 | 20.0 | 0.2 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 5.7 | 22.3 | 0.2 | 5.1 |
| 2024 | 5.7 | 21.3 | 0.2 | 5.0 |
| 2025 | 5.2 | 19.7 | 0.0 | 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.
106 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.
1 violent and 105 property, as reported to the FBI by Eastchester’s police.
Six people died in crashes on Eastchester’s roads in 2019–2023
Eastchester had 6 fatal crashes in five years, in which six people died; 2 were pedestrians.
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 Eastchester’s size would see about 8 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Eastchester’s own rate (3.5) 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.
Eastchester and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eastchester | A | 0.1 | 5.5 |
| Yonkers | C+ | 3.1 | 10.4 |
| New Rochelle | B− | 1.5 | 12.2 |
| Bronxville | A | 0.0 | 5.1 |
| Tuckahoe | A+ | 0.2 | 1.2 |
| Scarsdale | A | 0.1 | 3.9 |
| Mount Vernon | C− | 5.2 | 14.9 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
New York towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eastchester | A | 0.1 | 5.5 |
| Long Beach | A | 0.7 | 1.1 |
| Carmel | A | 0.4 | 3.0 |
| Manlius | B | 0.7 | 11.7 |
| Spring Valley | C | 3.5 | 17.3 |
| Ithaca | C− | 1.7 | 32.1 |
The five graded New York towns closest to Eastchester’s population (34,015), 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 Eastchester. 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 Eastchester’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (20,296 in 2025); our figure for Eastchester is 34,015 (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 Eastchester
Is Eastchester, NY safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Eastchester reports less crime per resident than 88% of U.S. towns, an A Safety Grade and #56 of 236 in New York. Its police reported 0.1 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 Eastchester?
0.1 violent and 5.5 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 Eastchester in 2025?
Eastchester’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 Eastchester safer than Yonkers?
Yonkers reports more crime per resident than Eastchester: Yonkers grades C+ for safety and Eastchester A. Yonkers’s police reported 3.1 violent and 10.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Eastchester?
Eastchester’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Eastchester Town 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.