Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn, NY Violent Crime Rates and Maps
Prospect Lefferts Gardens is a neighborhood of 8,420 residents in Brooklyn, about 3 miles southeast of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Prospect Lefferts Gardens?
Prospect Lefferts Gardens grades C+ for violent crime, with more of it than the neighborhoods where 84% of Americans live. Assaults make up 94% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. Brooklyn as a whole grades B- for violent crime.
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Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 536 of 1,000More violent crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
16% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Prospect Lefferts Gardens as a whole, and 84% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Prospect Lefferts Gardens scores 536.
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 Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn, NY at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Prospect Lefferts Gardens in Brooklyn, 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 about violent crime in Prospect Lefferts Gardens
Aggravated assaults run high. Prospect Lefferts Gardens has aggravated assaults at more than double the US rate: 7.3 a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.6 nationally.
Violent crime rates and types in Prospect Lefferts Gardens
CrimeGrade™ estimates Prospect Lefferts Gardens has about 44 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about triple the rate for the US as a whole and 69% more than Brooklyn 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 Prospect Lefferts Gardens, about 94% 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.
Where and when violent crime happens in Brooklyn
The New York City Police Department polices Prospect Lefferts Gardens; these figures cover New York as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In New York as a whole, 50% of aggravated assaults happen at a home, against 53% nationally. Robberies happen most often on streets and sidewalks: 45% of them.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
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.
Violent crime in Prospect Lefferts Gardens and nearby neighborhoods
Prospect Lefferts Gardens has less violent crime than 5 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Prospect Lefferts Gardens. 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, Prospect Lefferts Gardens has more violent crime than 53% of them.
Transit, tree cover and walkability in Prospect Lefferts Gardens
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, two set Prospect Lefferts Gardens apart: it has 86 buses and trains an hour at the evening rush, where most Americans have none nearby, and tree cover over 1% of the land where people live, against 21% nationally. Places like that tend to report more robbery, and it runs high here.
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Prospect Lefferts Gardens: B (57 of 100).86 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 95% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.1% where people liveUS: 21%Lower than for 92% 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. 100% of residents here live in walkable areas.A+ (90 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 92% 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.99% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 91% 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 Prospect Lefferts Gardens
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Prospect Lefferts Gardens about $19 million a year, or $2,248 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $5.3 million, or $633 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. Prospect Lefferts Gardens is a good example: many people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks worse 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
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.
