Great Kills is a neighborhood of 17,900 residents in Staten Island, about 7 miles southwest of downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Great Kills in Staten Island safe?
Yes, crime in Great Kills is low, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of A-. Because most US neighborhoods are safe as well, Great Kills sits near the middle: safer than the neighborhoods where 49% of Americans live. Violent crime grades better than property crime here, A against B+. Staten Island 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 834 of 1,000About as safe as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
49% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Great Kills as a whole, and 51% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Great Kills scores 834.
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 Great Kills, Staten Island, NY at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Great Kills in Staten Island, 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 Great Kills
Thefts from cars happen on streets and sidewalks far more often than nationally. In Staten Island as a whole, 79% of reported thefts from cars happen on streets and sidewalks, against 18% nationally.
Thefts and acts of vandalism both run low. In Great Kills, each runs at about half the US rate: 6.6 thefts and 2.9 acts of vandalism a year per 1,000 residents, against 13.1 and 5.5 nationally.
How Great Kills compares within Staten Island
Every part of Great Kills where people live grades A or B on the national scale. Grades across Great Kills run from A to B+; 22% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
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A or B 100%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Great Kills has less crime than 21 of the 27 neighborhoods in Staten Island. It covers much of the Great Kills area.
Is crime going up in Staten Island?
Reported crime in Staten Island as a whole has risen since 2019: violent crime is up 15% and property crime up 58%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 5.7 to 6.6 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 15 to 23 (US: 18). Neither changed much from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
Staten IslandUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Staten Island. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Staten Island
Violent, US
Property, Staten Island
Property, US
2016
+1%
+4%
+1%
+15%
2017
-4%
+4%
+1%
+12%
2018
-4%
+0%
+4%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
-4%
+4%
+1%
-8%
2021
+10%
+6%
+8%
-10%
2022
+28%
+5%
+44%
-6%
2023
+15%
+2%
+61%
-7%
2024
+15%
-4%
+58%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Great Kills
CrimeGrade™ estimates Great Kills has about 21 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 43% less than the US as a whole and 47% less than Staten Island 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.
The largest share of crime reported in Great Kills is assault, about 48% of the total. It also makes up 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 Staten Island
The New York City Police Department polices Great Kills; these figures cover New York as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In New York as a whole, 50% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (50%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (79%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Streets and sidewalks (79%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Streets and sidewalks (40%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Robbery
Streets and sidewalks (45%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (50%)
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 Great Kills compares with nearby neighborhoods
Great Kills has less crime than 7 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Two things set Great Kills apart: it has 39 buses and trains an hour at the evening rush, where most Americans have none nearby, and 15 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft and robbery, and theft runs 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 Great Kills: C (38 of 100).39 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 82% of residents of US city neighborhoods
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.15 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower 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. 64% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.C (33 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 52% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft and car theft.5.0 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Lower than for 79% 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 Great Kills
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Great Kills about $518 a year per household, 57% 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 $6.2 million a year, or $346 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 Great Kills 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.
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
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 Great Kills, Staten Island, NY average a SchoolGrade of A+: 75% of students test proficient, against 60% projected for schools like them. Overall, they greatly exceed expectations. See schools in Great Kills on SchoolGrade
