North Side, Mount Vernon, NY Violent Crime Rates and Maps
North Side is a neighborhood of 32,300 residents in Mount Vernon, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in North Side?
Violent crime is high in North Side: a B+, with more violent crime than the neighborhoods where 70% of Americans live. Assaults make up 90% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. Mount Vernon as a whole grades B for violent crime.
B+
Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 738 of 1,000More violent crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
30% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than North Side as a whole, and 70% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. North Side scores 738.
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 violent crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its violent crime with the people who spend time there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy downtown or nightlife strip can show red while the homes around it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a solid connection. Compare high speed internet in North Side, Mount Vernon, NY at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in North Side in Mount Vernon, 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
How North Side compares within Mount Vernon
Low violent crime is the norm across North Side: 87% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and the rest in areas graded C. Violent crime grades across North Side run from A+ to C-.
87%13%
A or B 87%C 13%
Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
North Side has less violent crime than 1 of the 2 neighborhoods in Mount Vernon.
Is violent crime going up in Mount Vernon?
Reported violent crime in Mount Vernon as a whole has held about steady since 2019, within 6%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 5.7 to 5.3 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7). Violent crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Mount VernonUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Mount Vernon. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Mount Vernon
Violent, US
2016
+19%
+4%
2017
+14%
+4%
2018
-8%
+0%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-8%
+4%
2021
-15%
+6%
2022
-19%
+5%
2023
-9%
+2%
2024
-6%
-4%
Violent crime rates and types in North Side
CrimeGrade™ estimates North Side has about 12 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 11% less than the US as a whole and 24% less than Mount Vernon as a whole.
All violent crime
Assaults
Robbery
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Violent crime here includes simple assaults, which the FBI's violent crime rate leaves out.
Assault is the most common violent crime in North Side, about 90% of the total.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a violent crime with the people who spend time in an area, not only the people who live there. 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.
Violent crime in North Side and nearby neighborhoods
North Side has less violent crime than 5 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from North Side. Beside each violent crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, North Side is safer than 63% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, one sets North Side apart: it has 29 buses and trains an hour at the evening rush, where most Americans have none nearby. Places like that tend to report more robbery, and it runs high here.
Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.19% where people liveUS: 21%Higher than for 78% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for North Side: C (37 of 100).29 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 78% 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 assault.B (56 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 69% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery.83% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 69% 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 violent crime costs North Side
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs North Side about $32 million a year, or $993 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $7.5 million, or $231 per resident.
Billed cost of violent crime per resident, per year
How CrimeGrade™ works
The violent crime CrimeGrade™ covers murder, rape, robbery and assault, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each violent crime against the people who spend time in an area, so a busy downtown is graded on its workers and visitors as well as its residents.
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.
