Safest Places in New York: Where Does Your Town Rank?

Safety is a priority when you’re picking a place to live.

So ValuePenguin dug into the most recent FBI crime stats to see how New York’s communities measured up. They created a ranking system that weighted population size, violent crime and crimes against property. And they excluded municipalities with populations of less than 5,000 people.

In all they ranked 215 municipalities. They found that the safest all had something in common other than low crime rates: they were all incorporated villages or towns.

Here are the rankings of the villages, towns and cities in Putnam, Rockland and Westchester that made it into the report, which run the gamut from safest to least safe:

3. Briarcliff Manor

4. Pleasantville

6. Irvington

12. Tuckahoe

14. New Castle

16. Bronxville

17. Croton-on-Hudson

19. North Castle

24. Carmel

25. Eastchester

26. Dobbs Ferry

28. Pound Ridge

30. Hastings

31. Rye Brook

33. Harrison

34. Scarsdale

36. Bedford

40. Sleepy Hollow

42. Suffern

45. Mount Pleasant

46. Mamaroneck Town

47. Mamaroneck Village

49. Tarry (town?)

51. Yorktown

52. Stony Point

55. Ramapo

59. Larchmont

72. Orangetown

84. Peekskill

85. Mount Kisco

88. Ossining

93. Greenburgh

101. Pelham Manor

102. Haverstraw

119. Clarkstown

122. Pelham

132. Port Chester

138. White Plains

149. New Rochelle

169. Spring Valley

194. Yonkers

204. Mount Vernon

Don’t see your town on the list? Not every New York community was ranked. There’s an alphabetical listing to make it easier to look up yours (if it has more than 5,000 people).

Read the full report and methodology here.

PHOTO: New Castle, NY