Vale and Eastern Avenue is a neighborhood of 3,430 residents in Schenectady, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Vale and Eastern Avenue in Schenectady safe?
Crime in Vale and Eastern Avenue is high, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of D. Most US neighborhoods have far less: 90% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime than Vale and Eastern Avenue. Violent crime grades D and property crime D+. Schenectady as a whole grades B. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Vale and Eastern Avenue run from B- to F, so check the map below.
D
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 216 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
10% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Vale and Eastern Avenue as a whole, and 90% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Vale and Eastern Avenue scores 216.
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 Vale and Eastern Avenue, Schenectady, NY at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Vale and Eastern Avenue in Schenectady, 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 Vale and Eastern Avenue
Thefts and aggravated assaults both run high. In Vale and Eastern Avenue, each runs at more than double the US rate: 30.3 thefts and 6.4 aggravated assaults a year per 1,000 residents, against 13.1 and 2.6 nationally.
Crime rates and types in Vale and Eastern Avenue
CrimeGrade™ estimates Vale and Eastern Avenue has about 97 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, more than double the rate for the US as a whole and 86% more than Schenectady 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 Vale and Eastern Avenue, 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 Schenectady
The Schenectady Police Department polices Vale and Eastern Avenue; these figures cover Schenectady as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Schenectady as a whole, 66% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often on streets and sidewalks: 40% of them, against 18% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (66%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (44%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Streets and sidewalks (40%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (52%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Robbery
Streets and sidewalks (41%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (53%)
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 Vale and Eastern Avenue compares with nearby neighborhoods
Vale and Eastern Avenue has more crime than 8 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods. Campus Area and Buckingham Lake-Crestwood have the least crime nearby.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Vale and Eastern Avenue. Beside each overall CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Vale and Eastern Avenue has more crime than 69% of them.
Jobs, tree cover and walkability in Vale and Eastern Avenue
Two things set Vale and Eastern Avenue apart: it has 82 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole, and 5.8 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery, and theft runs high here.
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.82 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 84% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.21% where people liveUS: 21%Higher than for 80% 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.B (58 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 70% 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.5.8 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Lower than for 72% 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 Vale and Eastern Avenue
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Vale and Eastern Avenue about $3,041 a year per household, more than double 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 $3,646 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 Vale and Eastern Avenue 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
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 Vale and Eastern Avenue, Schenectady, NY average a SchoolGrade of F: 35% of students test proficient, against 46% projected for schools like them. Overall, they underperform expectations. See schools in Vale and Eastern Avenue on SchoolGrade
