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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Beacon, NY
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Beacon, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Beacon. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Beacon, NY safe?
Beacon, New York has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 30 out of 100, grade D, below the New York statewide score of 46. An estimated 8% 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
- 30 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 8%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 70%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 15
How Beacon compares
Beacon scores 16 points below the New York statewide score of 46. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Beacon lies in Dutchess County, which has a county Safety Score of 66, grade B.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Beacon.
Neighborhoods inside Beacon
15 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Beacon, 15 of them mostly inside it. Among those 15, the lowest scores 1, the highest 68, and the middle 80% range from 8 to 51.
ZIP codes where Beacon residents live
Nearly all of Beacon's estimated residents live in ZIP 12508 (Safety Score 33, grade D). An estimated 26% of that ZIP's residents live outside Beacon, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 12508 profile.
Closest cities in New York
- Newburgh Safety Score 20 · grade D · 2.8 miles
- Woodbury Safety Score 66 · grade B · 14 miles
- Poughkeepsie Safety Score 24 · grade D · 14 miles
- Peekskill Safety Score 57 · grade C · 15 miles
- Kiryas Joel Safety Score 6 · grade F · 15 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Beacon
Beacon has an estimated 15,292 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 4.7 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 15 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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