Rockaway Park, Queens, NY Violent Crime Rates and Maps
Rockaway Park is a neighborhood of 21,200 residents in Queens, about 10 miles south of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Rockaway Park?
Violent crime is high in Rockaway Park: a B, with more violent crime than the neighborhoods where 75% of Americans live. Assaults make up 96% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. Queens as a whole grades B for violent crime.
B
Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 685 of 1,000More violent crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
25% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Rockaway Park as a whole, and 75% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Rockaway Park scores 685.
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 Rockaway Park, Queens, NY at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Rockaway Park in Queens, 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 Rockaway Park
More visitors than residents. Rockaway Park draws more people to work, shop or visit than live in it, so its crimes per resident run higher than its CrimeGrade™ suggests. The CrimeGrade™ weighs each crime against everyone who spends time here.
How Rockaway Park compares within Queens
Low violent crime is the norm across Rockaway Park: 81% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and the rest in areas graded C. Violent crime grades across Rockaway Park run from A to C-.
81%19%
A or B 81%C 19%
Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Rockaway Park has less violent crime than 19 of the 47 neighborhoods in Queens. It covers much of the Richmond Hill, South Ozone Park, and Arverne areas and the Woodhaven, Ozone Park, and Howard Beach areas.
Is violent crime going up in Queens?
Reported violent crime in Queens as a whole has risen 15% since 2019. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 5.7 to 6.6 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7). Violent crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
QueensUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Queens. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Queens
Violent, US
2016
+1%
+4%
2017
-4%
+4%
2018
-4%
+0%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-4%
+4%
2021
+10%
+6%
2022
+28%
+5%
2023
+15%
+2%
2024
+15%
-4%
Violent crime rates and types in Rockaway Park
CrimeGrade™ estimates Rockaway Park has about 21 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 56% more than the US as a whole and close to Queens 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 Rockaway Park, about 96% 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 Queens
The New York City Police Department polices Rockaway Park; 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 Rockaway Park and nearby neighborhoods
Rockaway Park has more violent crime than 6 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods. Breezy Point and Manhattan Beach have the least violent crime nearby.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Rockaway Park. 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, Rockaway Park is safer than 58% of them.
Tree cover, density and walkability in Rockaway Park
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, two set Rockaway Park apart: it has tree cover over 2% of the land where people live, against 21% nationally, and 94% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally. 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.2% where people liveUS: 21%Lower than for 89% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery.94% of residentsUS: 24%Higher 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 assault. 62% of residents here live in walkable areas.B+ (66 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 74% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Rockaway Park: C+ (42 of 100).28 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 77% 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 Rockaway Park
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Rockaway Park about $18 million a year, or $859 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $5.6 million, or $264 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
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.
