Getty Square is a neighborhood of 17,900 residents in Yonkers, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Getty Square in Yonkers safe?
Getty Square has more crime than most of the country: an overall CrimeGrade™ of C+, with more crime than the neighborhoods where 82% of Americans live. Violent crime grades B- and property crime C-. Yonkers as a whole grades B+. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Getty Square run from B+ to D-, so check the map below.
C+
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 490 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
18% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Getty Square as a whole, and 82% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Getty Square scores 490.
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 Getty Square, Yonkers, NY at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Getty Square in Yonkers, 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 Getty Square
Burglary is a strength. Getty Square grades C- for property crime, but burglary grades A.
Thefts from cars happen on streets and sidewalks far more often than nationally. In Yonkers as a whole, 58% of reported thefts from cars happen on streets and sidewalks, against 18% nationally.
How Getty Square compares within Yonkers
Areas graded C are home to 48% of residents in Getty Square; 19% live in areas graded A or B and 33% in areas graded D or F. Grades across Getty Square run from B+ to D-; every part of Getty Square has more crime than the typical US neighborhood.
19%48%33%
A or B 19%C 48%D or F 33%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Getty Square has less crime than 1 of the 10 neighborhoods in Yonkers. It covers much of the Getty Square and Downtown Yonkers areas.
Is crime going up in Yonkers?
Since 2019, reported violent crime in Yonkers as a whole is down 14%, while property crime has held about steady. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 3.5 to 3.1 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 9.1 to 9.9 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, violent crime fell 11% and property crime fell 20%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
YonkersUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Yonkers. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Yonkers
Violent, US
Property, Yonkers
Property, US
2016
+34%
+4%
+20%
+15%
2017
+15%
+4%
+11%
+12%
2018
-0%
+0%
-3%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
-12%
+4%
+4%
-8%
2021
-26%
+6%
-10%
-10%
2022
-7%
+5%
+2%
-6%
2023
-2%
+2%
+37%
-7%
2024
-14%
-4%
+9%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Getty Square
CrimeGrade™ estimates Getty Square has about 33 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 11% less than the US as a whole and 31% more than Yonkers 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.
Assault is the most common crime in Getty Square, about 39% of everything reported, and it also accounts for the largest share of what crime costs here.
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 Yonkers
The Yonkers Police Department polices Getty Square; these figures cover Yonkers as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Yonkers as a whole, 48% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (48%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (66%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Streets and sidewalks (58%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (36%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Robbery
Streets and sidewalks (41%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (45%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
How Getty Square compares with nearby neighborhoods
Getty Square has more crime than 9 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods. Cedar Knolls and Lawrence Park have the least crime nearby.
Two things set Getty Square apart: it has 60 buses and trains an hour at the evening rush, where most Americans have none nearby, and 94% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally. Places like that tend to report more theft and robbery, and they run high here.
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft and robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Getty Square: C+ (42 of 100).60 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 90% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.94% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 79% 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. 54% of residents here live in walkable areas.B+ (67 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 75% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.16 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 77% 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 Getty Square
Crime costs Getty Square about $1,228 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, about the same as 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 $27 million a year, or $1,533 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 Getty Square 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. Getty Square is the other kind of example: few people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks lower 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 Getty Square, Yonkers, NY average a SchoolGrade of D-: 42% of students test proficient, against 47% projected for schools like them. Overall, they don't meet expectations. See schools in Getty Square on SchoolGrade
