Safety score
Personal safety, institutional trust, and resilience signals informed by international safety and crime data.
Safety in New York74/100
Safety
Safety in New York
New York is mid-pack on safety: violent-crime context has improved over decades but property and incident pressure remain present in dense areas.
- Last updated
- 2026-05-03
- Data year
- 2025
- Module score
- 74/100
Safety score
74/100
Mid-tier global score with strong neighborhood variation.
Violent-crime context
Mid-low
Long-term decline supports the score but recent fluctuations matter.
Watch item
Property and transit
Property and transit-related risks are practical day-to-day issues.
New York safety data table
This HTML table mirrors the visible score cards so important comparison data is never trapped in a browser-only chart.
| Metric | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Safety score | 74/100 | Resident experience varies with neighborhood and time of day. |
| Violent-crime context | Mid-low | Long-run trend is favorable; short-run variation matters. |
| Watch item | Property and transit | Common situational awareness still useful. |
Safety city comparison
A crawlable comparison across every indexed city makes it easy to scan how this module changes between metros.
| City | Score | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| New York (this page) | 74/100 | New York is mid-pack on safety: violent-crime context has improved over decades but property and incident pressure remain present in dense areas. |
| Singapore | 95/100 | Singapore is among the safest cities globally, with very low violent-crime context and strong institutional response. |
| Tokyo | 93/100 | Tokyo scores at the very top globally on safety, with very low violent-crime context, strong institutions, and high resident perception of safety. |
| Copenhagen | 92/100 | Copenhagen scores high on safety due to strong public trust, low violent-crime context, and reliable institutional response. |
| Sydney | 87/100 | Sydney is among the safer large global cities, with low violent-crime context and strong institutional response. |
| Toronto | 84/100 | Toronto is among the safer large North American cities, with low violent-crime context and solid institutional response. |
| Berlin | 82/100 | Berlin has solid safety with neighborhood variation. Violent-crime context is comparatively low; opportunistic risks concentrate in transit and night-life areas. |
| London | 79/100 | London has solid safety with neighborhood variation. Violent-crime context is comparatively low; opportunistic risks are concentrated in transit and tourist hubs. |
| Paris | 78/100 | Paris has solid overall safety, with neighborhood variation and tourist-area opportunistic risks more visible than violent crime. |
Explanation
Safety scoring weighs violent-crime context, neighborhood variation, and institutional response. Dense, high-throughput cities tend to have wider variation than the average suggests.
Read this module with the main city profile because single-topic pages can miss tradeoffs. A city with a high energy score can still have housing pressure, and a city with strong opportunity can still carry health exposure risk.
Sources
These pages use trusted institutional references for methodology and context. Mock values are typed and ready to be replaced by API-backed city datasets without changing route structure.
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime: UNODC Data Portal
Used as a directional benchmark for relative city safety framing.
- UN-Habitat: World Cities Report 2024
Used as a policy and methodology reference for urban exposure and resilience signals.
Continue exploring
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New York city profile
Return to the complete New York profile with all module scores and source context.
Cost of Living in New York
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Air Quality in New York
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Energy in New York
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Internet Speed in New York
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Climate Risk in New York
Climate exposure, hazard frequency, and adaptation context for floods, heat, storms, and wildfires.
Overall Intelligence
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Quality of Life
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