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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Amsterdam, NY
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Amsterdam, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Amsterdam. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Amsterdam, NY safe?
Amsterdam, New York has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 26 out of 100, grade D, below the New York statewide score of 46. An estimated 9% of its residents live in neighborhoods graded A or B, compared with 34% statewide. Safety Scores are modeled estimates, not official crime rates.
- Safety Score
- 26 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 9%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 71%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 16
How Amsterdam compares
Amsterdam scores 20 points below the New York statewide score of 46. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Amsterdam lies in Montgomery County, which has a county Safety Score of 41, grade C.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Amsterdam.
Neighborhoods inside Amsterdam
16 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Amsterdam, 16 of them mostly inside it. Among those 16, the lowest scores 3, the highest 61, and the middle 80% range from 6 to 47.
ZIP codes where Amsterdam residents live
Nearly all of Amsterdam's estimated residents live in ZIP 12010 (Safety Score 47, grade C). An estimated 40% of that ZIP's residents live outside Amsterdam, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 12010 profile.
Closest cities in New York
- Gloversville Safety Score 26 · grade D · 11 miles
- Schenectady Safety Score 26 · grade D · 16 miles
- Saratoga Springs Safety Score 38 · grade D · 22 miles
- Cohoes Safety Score 35 · grade D · 27 miles
- Albany Safety Score 25 · grade D · 28 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Amsterdam
Amsterdam has an estimated 18,169 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 5.9 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 16 scored Census block groups that lie at least partly within those limits.
How this page is built
ZIP codes are listed by the estimated share of the city's residents who live in them, from 2020 Census block-group population spread evenly over each block group's land. The city score is not an average of ZIP scores.
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