The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Yonkers, NY
Yonkers is the third-largest city in New York, with 190,100 residents in Westchester County, about 14 miles northeast of Midtown Manhattan · Updated November 2026
Is Yonkers, NY safe?
Crime in Yonkers is moderate, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of B+. Most US neighborhoods have little crime: 65% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime than Yonkers. Violent crime grades A- and property crime B. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Yonkers run from A+ to D-, so check the map or the safest and least safe neighborhoods below.
B+
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 743 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
35% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Yonkers as a whole, and 65% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Yonkers scores 743.
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 Yonkers, NY at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters 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 Yonkers
Car thefts run high in Getty Square & Downtown Yonkers. In this part of west Yonkers, they run at more than triple the rate in the rest of Yonkers.
Thefts from cars happen on streets and sidewalks far more often than nationally. In Yonkers, 58% of reported thefts from cars happen on streets and sidewalks, against 18% nationally.
Burglary runs low. Yonkers has 1.2 burglaries a year per 1,000 residents, about half the US rate of 2.4.
The safest and most dangerous neighborhoods in Yonkers
Most of Yonkers grades well: 72% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and 7% in areas graded D or F. Grades across Yonkers run from A+ to D-; 26% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
72%21%
A or B 72%C 21%D or F 7%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
1Colonial Heights & Cedar Knolls, northeastCar thefts run at a small fraction of the rate in the rest of Yonkers.A914
2Lawrence Park, eastCar thefts run at about half the rate in the rest of Yonkers.A861
3Homefield & Nepera Park, northCar thefts run at about half the rate in the rest of Yonkers.A859
4Northwest Yonkers, northwestAggravated assaults run about 40% lower here than in the rest of Yonkers.A-827
5Lincoln Park & Woodlawn, southAggravated assaults run about 40% lower here than in the rest of Yonkers.A-778
6Bryn Mawr, centralThefts run about 30% lower here than in the rest of Yonkers.A-772
7Southeast Yonkers, southeastThefts run about 50% higher here than in the rest of Yonkers.B+745
8Ludlow & Park Hills, southwestRobberies run at more than double the rate in the rest of Yonkers.B-615
Neighborhood areas of Yonkers, ranked by overall 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.
Is crime going up in Yonkers?
Since 2019, reported violent crime in Yonkers 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 department that serves 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 Yonkers
CrimeGrade™ estimates Yonkers has about 25 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 32% less than the US as a whole and 37% less than New York.
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 Yonkers, about 37% 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
Yonkers has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Yonkers, 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 Yonkers compares with nearby cities
Yonkers has more crime than 9 of its 10 nearest cities. Hastings-on-Hudson and Eastchester have the least crime nearby.
Two things set Yonkers apart: it has 43 buses and trains an hour at the evening rush, where most Americans have none nearby, and 0.4 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally. Places with busy transit 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 Yonkers: C (37 of 100).43 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 97% of US city residents
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.0.4 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Lower than for 93% of US city residents
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- (54 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 93% of US city residents
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Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.83% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 93% of US city residents
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.100% where people liveUS: 78%Higher than for 92% of US city residents
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.3.8% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 76% of US city residents
BestNeighborhood, a sister site of CrimeGrade™, ranks the neighborhoods of Yonkers on shops, parks, home prices, getting around and more.
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 Yonkers
Crime costs Yonkers about $786 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, 35% less than the US figure of $1,205. The total is about $56 million a year.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost rises to about $169 million a year, or $891 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$7.1 million
$38
Rape
$1.1 million
$6
Robbery
$4.0 million
$21
Assault
$23 million
$121
Burglary
$2.0 million
$11
Theft
$7.3 million
$39
Vehicle theft
$4.7 million
$25
Arson
$540,000
$3
Vandalism
$6.3 million
$33
Total
$56 million
$295
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 Yonkers 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. Yonkers 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 Yonkers, NY average a SchoolGrade of C: 53% of students test proficient, against 48% projected for schools like them. Overall, they exceed expectations. See schools in Yonkers on SchoolGrade
