Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Plattsburgh reports less violent crime than most U.S. towns, but more property crime
Overall, Plattsburgh grades C+ for safety (#169 of 236 graded towns in New York): more crime per resident than 62% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported to the FBI in 2023–2025.
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 Plattsburgh
A college town
Plattsburgh is home to State University of New York at Plattsburgh, with 3,532 students taking classes on campus (federal college data), and 20% of residents are enrolled in college (Census). Students who live in town count as residents, so they are part of the per-resident rate. How to read it ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Plattsburgh’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds Plattsburgh’s grade up; property crime pulls it down.
Violent crime, by year and by type
Plattsburgh’s police reported 92 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.5 per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.0 in the rest of New York and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
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| Year | Plattsburgh | Rest of New York | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.3 | 5.6 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.8 | 5.1 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.3 | 5.0 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.5 | 4.9 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
For every 1,000 residents, about 18 property crimes reported
And about 2 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
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.
Reported crime is steady
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.
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| Year | Plattsburgh property | Rest of New York property | Plattsburgh violent | Rest of New York violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 14.8 | 20.0 | 1.3 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 16.3 | 22.2 | 1.8 | 5.1 |
| 2024 | 18.5 | 21.3 | 1.3 | 5.0 |
| 2025 | 18.3 | 19.7 | 1.5 | 4.9 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
391 crimes reported in 2025
30 violent and 361 property, as reported to the FBI by Plattsburgh’s police.
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
No one died in a crash on Plattsburgh’s roads in 2019–2023
That is fewer than 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 Plattsburgh’s size would see about 6 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Plattsburgh’s own rate (0.0) 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.
Plattsburgh and its neighbors
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plattsburgh | C+ | 1.5 | 17.7 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
New York towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plattsburgh | C+ | 1.5 | 17.7 |
| Ogden | A | 0.4 | 5.2 |
| Saugerties | A− | 0.5 | 5.3 |
| Mamaroneck | B+ | 0.9 | 9.4 |
| Cohoes | C+ | 2.4 | 11.8 |
| Lackawanna | C | 3.4 | 17.4 |
The five graded New York towns closest to Plattsburgh’s population (19,744), by grade.
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 Plattsburgh. 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 Plattsburgh’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (19,738 in 2025); our figure for Plattsburgh is 19,744 (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 Plattsburgh
Is Plattsburgh, NY safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Plattsburgh reports more crime per resident than 62% of U.S. towns, a C+ Safety Grade and #169 of 236 in New York. Its police reported 1.5 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 Plattsburgh?
1.5 violent and 17.7 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.
Is crime going up or down in Plattsburgh?
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings.
Who polices Plattsburgh?
Plattsburgh’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Plattsburgh City”. 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.