Photo: Steve Carrea · Public domainOn property crime, White Plains has a higher rate per resident than two in three U.S. towns
Its police logs show 1.2 violent crimes and 16.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the rest of New York the numbers are 5.0 and 21.1. Both towns next door with figures record less crime per resident. Overall, White Plains grades C+ for safety (#153 of 236 graded towns in New York): close to the middle of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Per resident, the graded crimes were down 17% 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 White Plains
2 of the 2 graded towns next door report less crime
Of the 4 New York towns on White Plains’ borders, 2 have a Safety Grade: Scarsdale (A), Greenburgh (B−). Harrison has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025. North Castle reported to the FBI for 2023 and 2025 but not 2024. Neighbors ↓
A job center
White Plains has 39,123 jobs based in town for 62,871 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 White Plains’ grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds White Plains’ grade up; property crime pulls it down. Its property rate (16.4) is below the FBI’s national estimate (17.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | White Plains | Rest of New York | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.1 | 5.6 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.5 | 5.1 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.1 | 5.0 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.2 | 4.9 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
White Plains’ police reported 229 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.2 per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.0 in the rest of New York and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | White Plains property | Rest of New York property | White Plains violent | Rest of New York violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 12.7 | 20.0 | 1.1 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 17.2 | 22.3 | 1.5 | 5.1 |
| 2024 | 17.6 | 21.3 | 1.1 | 5.0 |
| 2025 | 14.4 | 19.7 | 1.2 | 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.
Crime in White Plains 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 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
982 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.
73 violent and 909 property, as reported to the FBI by White Plains’ police.
Eight people died in crashes on White Plains’s roads in 2019–2023
White Plains had 8 fatal crashes in five years, in which eight people died; 6 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 White Plains’s size would see about 14 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so White Plains’s own rate (2.6) 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.
White Plains and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| White Plains | C+ | 1.2 | 16.4 |
| Harrison | — | — | — |
| Scarsdale | A | 0.1 | 3.9 |
| Greenburgh | B− | 0.7 | 14.4 |
| North Castle | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Harrison has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025. North Castle reported to the FBI for 2023 and 2025 but not 2024.
New York towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| White Plains | C+ | 1.2 | 16.4 |
| Southampton | A− | 0.5 | 7.0 |
| Hamburg | B− | 0.6 | 16.4 |
| Hempstead | C | 4.7 | 10.5 |
| Utica | D | 4.8 | 29.6 |
| Schenectady | D | 6.9 | 30.1 |
The five graded New York towns closest to White Plains’ population (62,871), 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 White Plains. A citywide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of the city to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against White Plains’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (63,332 in 2025); our figure for White Plains is 62,871 (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 White Plains
Is White Plains, NY safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, White Plains reports more crime per resident than 57% of U.S. towns, a C+ Safety Grade and #153 of 236 in New York. Its police reported 1.2 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 White Plains?
1.2 violent and 16.4 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.
How many homicides were there in White Plains in 2025?
White Plains’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.
Is White Plains safer than Scarsdale?
Scarsdale reports less crime per resident than White Plains: Scarsdale grades A for safety and White Plains C+. Scarsdale’s police reported 0.1 violent and 3.9 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices White Plains?
White Plains’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “White Plains”. 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.