Photo: Farragutful · CC BY-SA 4.0Rockville Centre has less crime per resident than 89% of U.S. towns
Counting crimes Rockville Centre’s police reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades A for safety: #50 of 236 graded towns in New York. Add to that, the rate the grade counts dropped 54% from 2023 to 2025. Annual rates stand at 0.3 violent crime and 4.8 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 5.0 and 21.1 in the rest of New York. Violent crime here is lower than in 92% of U.S. towns; property crime, lower than in 81%.
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 Rockville Centre
A college town
Rockville Centre is home to Molloy University, with 3,940 students taking classes on campus (federal college data), and 5% 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 ↓
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 Rockville Centre’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.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Rockville Centre property | Rest of New York property | Rockville Centre violent | Rest of New York violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5.1 | 20.0 | 0.6 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 6.5 | 22.3 | 0.5 | 5.1 |
| 2024 | 4.7 | 21.3 | 0.2 | 5.0 |
| 2025 | 3.0 | 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, 2022–2025, against the rest of New York.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Rockville Centre | Rest of New York | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.6 | 5.6 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.5 | 5.1 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.2 | 5.0 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.2 | 4.9 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Rockville Centre’s police reported 22 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.3 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 Rockville Centre 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.
82 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.
4 violent and 78 property, as reported to the FBI by Rockville Centre’s police.
Four people died in crashes on Rockville Centre’s roads in 2019–2023
Rockville Centre had 4 fatal crashes in five years, in which four people died; 3 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 Rockville Centre’s size would see about 6 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Rockville Centre’s own rate (3.1) 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.
Rockville Centre and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rockville Centre | A | 0.3 | 4.8 |
| Lynbrook | — | — | — |
| East Rockaway | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Lynbrook reported to the FBI for 2023 and 2024 but not 2025. East Rockaway has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025.
New York towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rockville Centre | A | 0.3 | 4.8 |
| Camillus | B+ | 0.5 | 8.2 |
| Peekskill | B− | 2.3 | 8.1 |
| Auburn | C | 2.8 | 15.8 |
| DeWitt | C− | 1.9 | 32.1 |
| Elmira | D | 5.3 | 33.6 |
The five graded New York towns closest to Rockville Centre’s population (25,770), 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 Rockville Centre. 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 Rockville Centre’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (25,674 in 2025); our figure for Rockville Centre is 25,770 (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 Rockville Centre
Is Rockville Centre, NY safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Rockville Centre reports less crime per resident than 89% of U.S. towns, an A Safety Grade and #50 of 236 in New York. Its police reported 0.3 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 Rockville Centre?
0.3 violent and 4.8 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 Rockville Centre in 2025?
Rockville Centre’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.
Who polices Rockville Centre?
Rockville Centre’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Rockville Centre 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.