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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Jamestown, NY
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Jamestown, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Jamestown. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Jamestown, NY safe?
Jamestown, New York has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 26 out of 100, grade D, below the New York statewide score of 46. An estimated 11% 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
- 11%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 74%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 34
How Jamestown compares
Jamestown scores 20 points below the New York statewide score of 46. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Jamestown lies in Chautauqua County, which has a county Safety Score of 29, grade D.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Jamestown.
Neighborhoods inside Jamestown
34 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Jamestown, 34 of them mostly inside it. Among those 34, the lowest scores 0, the highest 71, and the middle 80% range from 3 to 52.
ZIP codes where Jamestown residents live
Nearly all of Jamestown's estimated residents live in ZIP 14701 (Safety Score 39, grade D). An estimated 27% of that ZIP's residents live outside Jamestown, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 14701 profile.
Closest cities in New York
- Dunkirk Safety Score 26 · grade D · 27 miles
- Olean Safety Score 25 · grade D · 41 miles
- Lackawanna Safety Score 30 · grade D · 54 miles
- Buffalo Safety Score 22 · grade D · 60 miles
- Lancaster Safety Score 57 · grade C · 62 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Jamestown
Jamestown has an estimated 27,699 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 8.9 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 34 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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