Campus Area is a neighborhood of 16,000 residents in Albany, about 4 miles northwest of downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Campus Area in Albany safe?
Yes. Most US neighborhoods have little crime, and Campus Area has less than most of them: its overall CrimeGrade™ is A, safer than the neighborhoods where 62% of Americans live. Violent crime grades better than property crime here, A+ against A-. Albany as a whole grades B. Its neighborhoods are much alike, from A to B+; see the map below.
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Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 885 of 1,000Safer than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
62% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Campus Area as a whole, and 38% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Campus Area scores 885.
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 crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its crime with the people, homes and cars there, on one national scale, from green for the least crime 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 Campus Area, Albany, NY at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Campus Area in Albany, 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 in Campus Area
Thefts from cars happen on streets and sidewalks far more often than nationally. In Albany as a whole, 54% of reported thefts from cars happen on streets and sidewalks, against 18% nationally.
How Campus Area compares within Albany
Every part of Campus Area where people live grades A or B on the national scale. Grades across Campus Area run from A to B+; 74% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
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Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Campus Area has less crime than 12 of the 13 neighborhoods in Albany. It covers much of the Campus Area area and the Buckingham Lake-Crestwood area.
Is crime going up in Albany?
Reported crime in Albany as a whole has held about steady since 2019: violent crime is up 7% and property crime down 5%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 7.7 to 8.2 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 30 to 29 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, violent crime fell 18% and property crime fell 18%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
AlbanyUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Albany. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Albany
Violent, US
Property, Albany
Property, US
2016
+14%
+4%
+16%
+15%
2017
+17%
+4%
+14%
+12%
2018
+11%
+0%
+6%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+15%
+4%
-12%
-8%
2021
+10%
+6%
-6%
-10%
2022
+23%
+5%
+24%
-6%
2023
+31%
+2%
+15%
-7%
2024
+7%
-4%
-5%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Campus Area
CrimeGrade™ estimates Campus Area has about 39 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 6% more than the US as a whole and 46% less than Albany as a whole.
Overall crime
Violent crime
Property crime
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. These figures include simple assaults and vandalism, which the FBI's violent and property crime rates leave out.
Theft makes up about 50% of crime reported in Campus Area. Assault is less common but costs more, because each one does more harm.
Each CrimeGrade™ compares a crime with what it affects: people for assaults and robbery, homes for burglary, parked cars for vehicle theft. 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.
Where and when crime happens in Albany
The Albany Police Department polices Campus Area; these figures cover Albany as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Albany as a whole, 72% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (72%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (54%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Streets and sidewalks (54%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (49%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Robbery
Streets and sidewalks (46%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (56%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
How Campus Area compares with nearby neighborhoods
Campus Area has the least crime of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Two things set Campus Area apart: it has 177 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole, and 27.9 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally. It also combines many stores and restaurants with a lot of parking-lot space: places with both tend to report more theft and car theft than places with only one of them, yet theft and car theft run lower here than that would suggest.
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.177 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 95% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft and car theft.27.9 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 94% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft and assault. 79% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D (18 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 77% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.3.0 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 93% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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 crime costs Campus Area
Crime costs Campus Area about $1,145 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, 5% less than the US figure of $1,205.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost comes to about $13 million a year, or $803 per resident.
How CrimeGrade™ works
A CrimeGrade™ shows how much crime an area has compared with the rest of the country, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most. Every neighborhood in the US is graded on the same scale, so a B in Campus Area means the same as a B anywhere else.
CrimeGrade™ starts from the crimes people report to police and measures each kind of crime against what it affects: people for assaults, homes for burglaries, parked cars for car thefts.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them. Campus Area is a good example: many people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks worse than its CrimeGrade™ suggests.
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. 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
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
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.
Schools in Campus Area, Albany, NY average a SchoolGrade of B: 62% of students test proficient, against 57% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Campus Area on SchoolGrade
