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Stockport is Safest NY Community: New List
12 Hudson Valley communities, six of them in Orange County, made a Top 30 List that uses FBI crime data for its rankings.
Twelve communities in the Hudson Valley made it onto a new list of safest places to live in New York — from Alarm System Reviews.
At No. 1 is Stockport, on the Hudson River in Columbia County. Here's what earned it the top ranking:
- Population: 2,744
- Violent Crime Rates (per 1,000): 0.0
- Property Crime Rates (per 1,000): 0.4
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With six villages or towns on the list, Orange County had the most communities. Four of the communities on the list are from Westchester County and one from Rockland.
Who are these guys and why should you pay attention to their rankings? They used data from several national sources including the most recent FBI Uniform Crime Report. The research team compiled and established safety profiles for every reported community in the state of New York with at least 2,500 residents. They totaled the number of violent and property crimes and calculated that total against the reported population to assign an overall crime rate per 1,000 residents. Communities with incomplete data were also excluded from the final rankings.
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They had good things to say for the state as a whole, too. New York ranked 16th on the Safest Places to Live in the United States list for 2016.
Here is their list of the 30 safest Places to Live in New York:
- Stockport, Columbia County
- Woodbury, Orange County
- Lewiston, Niagara County
- Elmira, Chenung County
- Malverne, Nassau County
- Norfolk, St. Lawrence County
- Pleasantville, Westchester County
- Tuxedo, Orange County
- Durham, Greene County
- Kings Point, Nassau County
- Carroll, Chautauqua County
- Briarcliff Manor, Westchester County
- Highlands, Orange County
- Mount Hope, Orange County
- Nunda, Livingston County
- Fort Edward, Washington County
- Irvington, Westchester County
- Chester, Orange County
- Westfield, Chautauqua County
- Sands Point, Nassau County
- Moriah, Essex County
- Floral Park, Queens
- Oyster Bay Cove, Nassau County
- South Nyack, Rockland County
- Rye, Westchester County
- Coxsackie, Greene County
- Glen Cove, Nassau County
- Maybrook, Orange County
- Lloyd Harbor, Suffolk County
- Eden, Erie County
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What's your take on the rankings? Tell us in the comments.
PHOTO: St. John's Church in Stockport/ Doug Kerr via Wikimedia Commons
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