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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Cortland, NY
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Cortland, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Cortland. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Cortland, NY safe?
Cortland, New York has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 21 out of 100, grade D, below the New York statewide score of 46. Under 1% 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
- 21 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- <1%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 82%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 18
How Cortland compares
Cortland scores 25 points below the New York statewide score of 46. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Cortland lies in Cortland County, which has a county Safety Score of 59, grade C.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Cortland.
Neighborhoods inside Cortland
18 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Cortland, 18 of them mostly inside it. Among those 18, the lowest scores 2, the highest 44, and the middle 80% range from 7 to 42.
ZIP codes where Cortland residents live
Nearly all of Cortland's estimated residents live in ZIP 13045 (Safety Score 41, grade C). An estimated 37% of that ZIP's residents live outside Cortland, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 13045 profile.
Closest cities in New York
- Ithaca Safety Score 16 · grade F · 19 miles
- Auburn Safety Score 24 · grade D · 30 miles
- Syracuse Safety Score 20 · grade D · 31 miles
- Endicott Safety Score 23 · grade D · 35 miles
- Johnson City Safety Score 35 · grade D · 35 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Cortland
Cortland has an estimated 17,459 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 3.9 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 18 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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