The Rochester metro area, the 53rd-largest in the US, is home to 1.06 million residents; Rochester itself is the fourth-largest city in New York · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in the Rochester area?
Property crime in the Rochester area sits near the national middle: an A-, with more property crime than the neighborhoods where 57% of Americans live. Theft makes up 43% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades A, and vehicle theft grades A-. The city of Rochester itself grades C for property crime.
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Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 781 of 1,000About as much property crime as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
43% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than the Rochester area as a whole, and 57% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. The Rochester area scores 781.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more property crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its property crime with the homes, parked cars and people there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in Rochester, NY at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in the Rochester area, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out about property crime in the Rochester area
One part of Rochester stands out for vehicle theft. Car thefts in Beechwood, North Marketview Heights & Culver-Winton, in east Rochester, run at about triple the rate in the rest of the city.
One weak spot: vandalism. It grades B in the Rochester area, worse than in the neighborhoods where 77% of Americans live, against A- for property crime as a whole.
Where property crime is lowest and highest in the Rochester area
In the Rochester area, 77% of residents live in areas graded A or B for property crime, 5% in areas graded C and 18% in areas graded D or F. Property crime grades across the Rochester area run from A+ to F.
77%18%
A or B 77%C 5%D or F 18%
Share of residents, by the property crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Neighborhoods of Rochester
1United Neighbors Together, westCar thefts run at less than half the rate in the rest of Rochester.B-559
7Edgerton, Lyell-Otis & Dutchtown, centralCar thefts run at about triple the rate in the rest of Rochester.F0
Neighborhood areas of the city of Rochester, ranked by property crime CrimeGrade™; beside each grade is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer). Each one combines several of the smaller areas on the map.
Cities and towns in the Rochester metro area with at least 1,000 residents. Ranked by property crime CrimeGrade™; beside each grade is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer), and the other numbers are residents.
Is property crime going up in the Rochester area?
Reported property crime in the Rochester area has held about steady since 2019, within 7%. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 17 to 16 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime fell 26%.
Property crime, change since 2019
Rochester areaUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments across the Rochester area. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Rochester area
Property, US
2016
+19%
+15%
2017
+16%
+12%
2018
+3%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-4%
-8%
2021
-16%
-10%
2022
+5%
-6%
2023
+26%
-7%
2024
-7%
-15%
Property crime rates and types in the Rochester area
CrimeGrade™ estimates the Rochester area has about 25 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 6% more than the US as a whole and close to New York.
All property crime
Burglary
Vehicle theft
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Property crime here includes vandalism, which the FBI's property crime rate leaves out.
Theft is the most common property crime in the Rochester area, about 43% of the total, followed by vandalism and vehicle theft.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a property crime with what it affects: homes for burglary and arson, parked cars for vehicle theft, people and parking for theft, homes and businesses for vandalism. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Property crime in the Rochester area and nearby metro areas
The Rochester area has more property crime than 8 of its 10 nearest metro areas. The Harrisburg area and the Poughkeepsie area have the least property crime nearby.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from the Rochester area. Beside each property crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with metro areas of similar size and density, the Rochester area has more property crime than 59% of them.
Night lighting, density and empty homes in the Rochester area
The Rochester area looks like a typical metro area on the traits that tend to go with property crime.
Lit at nightSatellite images show which neighborhoods are lit at night, a sign of busy streets and businesses. Brightly lit places tend to report more theft and vandalism.70% where people liveUS: 78%Lower than for 85% of Americans in metro areas
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more car theft.16% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 64% of Americans in metro areas
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary.5.7% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 55% of Americans in metro areas
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What property crime costs the Rochester area
Property crime costs the Rochester area about $202 million a year, or $190 per resident and about $457 per household: the value of what is stolen or damaged, plus the police, courts and prisons that respond.
Cost of property crime per resident, per year
How the cost breaks down
Pain and suffering add little to the cost of property crime, so this is close to its full cost.
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Burglary
$16 million
$15
Theft
$58 million
$55
Vehicle theft
$55 million
$52
Arson
$3.2 million
$3
Vandalism
$69 million
$65
Total
$202 million
$190
How CrimeGrade™ works
The property crime CrimeGrade™ covers burglary, theft, car theft, arson and vandalism, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each property crime against what it affects: homes for burglary and arson, parked cars for car theft, and the people and parking around stores for theft.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. These figures cover the whole Rochester metro area. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
