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Safety in Hastings · Not graded

Policing and crime in Hastings, NY

Inside a 10-mile circle sit 2 graded neighbors. The closest graded town is Central Square, 3 miles away, at C+. The FBI holds no crime figures for Hastings alone for 2023–2025, so it can’t be graded.

Nearest with figures

The nearest New York towns with a Safety Grade

TownGradeDistanceViolentProperty
Central SquareC+3 mi0.221.5
PhoenixA9 mi0.32.9
CiceroB+11 mi0.410.2
FultonC+13 mi2.510.9
BaldwinsvilleB+14 mi0.96.7
LiverpoolB15 mi0.314.3

Straight-line distance from the center of Hastings. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Hastings.

Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

On the roads

Five people died in crashes on Hastings’s roads in 2019–2023

Hastings had 5 fatal crashes in five years, in which five 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 Hastings’s size would see about 3 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Hastings’s own rate (10.7) is context, not a ranking.

5
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
0
pedestrians among them
0
cyclists among them
10.7
per 100,000 a year · New York towns of 5,000–25,000: 5.9

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.

Next door

Hastings and its neighbors

A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty
Clay———
CiceroB+0.410.2
West Monroe———
Schroeppel———
Mexico———
Parish———
Palermo———

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Clay, West Monroe, Schroeppel, Mexico, Parish and Palermo have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025.

How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.

How to read these numbers

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.
  • A county agency covers a wide area. Its totals mix many communities, so they say little about any one of them.
  • 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 Hastings

Is Hastings, NY safe?

There is no Safety Grade for Hastings. Hastings 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 Central Square (C+, 3 mi), Phoenix (A, 9 mi), Cicero (B+, 11 mi).

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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 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.