Photo: Kenneth C. Zirkel · CC BY-SA 4.0The crimes the grade counts fell 54% per resident in Horseheads from 2023 to 2025
The local count comes to 1.0 violent crime and 3.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 5.0 and 21.1 in the rest of New York. Its letter overall is A− (#70 of 236 graded towns in New York): less crime per resident than 84% of U.S. towns, from crimes its police reported through 2023 to 2025. On violence it beats 69% of U.S. towns, and on property crime 88%.
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 Horseheads
Among New York towns, closer to the middle
New York’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Horseheads’ place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 70% of the 236 New York towns we grade, against 84% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A job center
Horseheads has 3,913 jobs based in town for 6,275 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
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 Horseheads’ 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; property crime is the stronger of the two.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Horseheads property | Rest of New York property | Horseheads violent | Rest of New York violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 4.9 | 22.2 | 1.3 | 5.1 |
| 2024 | 2.7 | 21.3 | 1.4 | 5.0 |
| 2025 | 2.7 | 19.7 | 0.2 | 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, 2023–2025, against the rest of New York.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Horseheads | Rest of New York | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.3 | 5.1 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.4 | 5.0 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.2 | 4.9 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Horseheads’ police reported 18 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.0 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 Horseheads 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 fewer than 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
18 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.
1 violent and 17 property, as reported to the FBI by Horseheads’ police.
Three people died in crashes on Horseheads’s roads in 2019–2023
Horseheads had 3 fatal crashes in five years, in which three people died; 1 was a pedestrian. Most of these deaths (2 of 3) were on an Interstate passing through, so they say more about through-traffic than about the town’s own streets.
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 Horseheads’s size would see about 2 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Horseheads’s own rate (9.3) 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.
Horseheads and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horseheads | A− | 1.0 | 3.4 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
New York towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horseheads | A− | 1.0 | 3.4 |
| Elmira | A+ | 0.2 | 0.3 |
| Woodstock | A+ | 0.1 | 1.7 |
| Mount Hope | A+ | 0.1 | 2.2 |
| Bronxville | A | 0.0 | 5.1 |
| East Rochester | B | 1.0 | 11.5 |
The five graded New York towns closest to Horseheads’ population (6,275), 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 Horseheads. 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 Horseheads’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (6,282 in 2025); our figure for Horseheads is 6,275 (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 Horseheads
Is Horseheads, NY safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Horseheads reports less crime per resident than 84% of U.S. towns, an A− Safety Grade and #70 of 236 in New York. Its police reported 1.0 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 Horseheads?
1.0 violent and 3.4 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.
Who polices Horseheads?
Horseheads’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Horseheads Village”. 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.