Photo: RochesterNY · Public domainSeneca Falls sees more property crime per resident than 80% of U.S. towns
Taking everything together, Seneca Falls scores C (#182 of 236 graded towns in New York): more crime per resident than 68% of U.S. towns, measured on crimes its police reported between 2023 and 2025. Annual rates stand at 1.5 violent crimes and 21.6 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 5.0 and 21.0 in the rest of New York. The crimes the grade counts rose 28% per resident from 2023 to 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 Seneca Falls
Reported crime is rising
Crime reported per resident rose 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 Seneca Falls’ grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds Seneca Falls’ grade up; property crime pulls it down.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Seneca Falls property | Rest of New York property | Seneca Falls violent | Rest of New York violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 17.3 | 19.9 | 2.8 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 16.2 | 22.2 | 1.2 | 5.1 |
| 2024 | 28.3 | 21.2 | 1.3 | 5.0 |
| 2025 | 20.4 | 19.7 | 1.9 | 4.9 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident rose 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 | Seneca Falls | Rest of New York | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2.8 | 5.6 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.2 | 5.1 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.3 | 5.0 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.9 | 4.9 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Seneca Falls’ police reported 39 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.
Crime in Seneca 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.
198 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.
17 violent and 181 property, as reported to the FBI by Seneca Falls’ police.
Two people died in crashes on Seneca Falls’s roads in 2019–2023
Seneca Falls had 2 fatal crashes in five years, in which two people died.
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 Seneca Falls’s size would see about 3 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Seneca Falls’s own rate (4.5) 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.
Seneca Falls and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seneca Falls | C | 1.5 | 21.6 |
| Fayette | — | — | — |
| Aurelius | — | — | — |
| Waterloo (township) | — | — | — |
| Waterloo (village) | — | — | — |
| Springport | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Fayette, Aurelius, Waterloo (township) and Springport have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025. Waterloo (village) reported to the FBI for 2023 and 2025 but not 2024.
New York towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seneca Falls | C | 1.5 | 21.6 |
| Marlborough | A+ | 0.2 | 2.5 |
| Crawford | A | 0.8 | 3.8 |
| Ellicott | C− | 1.3 | 30.2 |
| Newark | C− | 3.5 | 24.6 |
| Ogdensburg | D | 4.3 | 46.6 |
The five graded New York towns closest to Seneca Falls’ population (8,845), 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 Seneca 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 Seneca Falls’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (8,876 in 2025); our figure for Seneca Falls is 8,845 (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 Seneca Falls
Is Seneca Falls, NY safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Seneca Falls reports more crime per resident than 68% of U.S. towns, a C Safety Grade and #182 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 Seneca Falls?
1.5 violent and 21.6 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 Seneca Falls?
Seneca Falls’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Seneca Falls Town”. 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.