Photo: Magicpiano · CC BY-SA 4.0Property crime per resident is lower in Little Falls than in 79% of U.S. towns
For every 1,000 residents, 1.0 violent crime and 5.2 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the rest of New York, the figures are 5.0 and 21.0. Add to that, from 2023 to 2025, crimes Little Falls’ police reported put it at A− for safety: #87 of 236 graded towns in New York.
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 Little Falls
Among New York towns, closer to the middle
New York’s cities and towns report more crime than most states’, so Little Falls’ place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 63% of the 236 New York towns we grade, against 78% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Little Falls’ 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.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Little Falls | Rest of New York | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2.6 | 5.6 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.4 | 5.1 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.4 | 5.0 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 2.0 | 4.9 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Little Falls’ police reported 13 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 Little Falls 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 2 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 | Little Falls property | Rest of New York property | Little Falls violent | Rest of New York violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 7.0 | 20.0 | 2.6 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 7.1 | 22.2 | 0.4 | 5.1 |
| 2024 | 4.4 | 21.3 | 0.4 | 5.0 |
| 2025 | 4.0 | 19.7 | 2.0 | 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.
27 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.
9 violent and 18 property, as reported to the FBI by Little Falls’ police.
One person died in crashes on Little Falls’s roads in 2019–2023
Little Falls 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 Little Falls’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Little Falls’s own rate (4.4) 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.
Little Falls and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Falls | A− | 1.0 | 5.2 |
| Little Falls (township) | — | — | — |
| Manheim | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Little Falls (township) and Manheim have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025.
New York towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Falls | A− | 1.0 | 5.2 |
| Norfolk | A+ | 0.4 | 0.7 |
| Canastota | B+ | 1.4 | 5.0 |
| Le Roy | B− | 1.3 | 12.1 |
| Dansville | C+ | 0.8 | 17.6 |
| Wellsville | C+ | 1.3 | 16.1 |
The five graded New York towns closest to Little Falls’ population (4,481), 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 Little Falls. 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 Little Falls’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (4,513 in 2025); our figure for Little Falls is 4,481 (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 Little Falls
Is Little Falls, NY safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Little Falls reports less crime per resident than 78% of U.S. towns, an A− Safety Grade and #87 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 Little Falls?
1.0 violent and 5.2 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 Little Falls?
Little Falls’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Little Falls”. 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.