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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Kingston, NY

Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Kingston, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.

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City Safety Score 36/100 Grade D Modeled estimate · 0 to 100, higher is safer
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Is Kingston, NY safe?

Kingston, New York has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 36 out of 100, grade D, below the New York statewide score of 46. An estimated 21% 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
36 / 100
Residents in A or B neighborhoods
21%
Residents in D or F neighborhoods
67%
Scored neighborhoods
24

How Kingston compares

Kingston scores 10 points below the New York statewide score of 46. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.

Kingston lies in Ulster County, which has a county Safety Score of 38, grade D.

County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Kingston.

Neighborhoods inside Kingston

24 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Kingston, 24 of them mostly inside it. Among those 24, the lowest scores 9, the highest 92, and the middle 80% range from 17 to 76.

Safety Score, 0–100 · shaded band: 10th–90th percentiles · whiskers: lowest and highest

Kingston

A 4% · B 17% · C 13% · D 39% · F 27%

New York

A 17% · B 17% · C 23% · D 23% · F 21%

Estimated share of residents living in neighborhoods of each grade, in Kingston and across New York.

ZIP codes where Kingston residents live

Nearly all of Kingston's estimated residents live in ZIP 12401 (Safety Score 44, grade C). An estimated 33% of that ZIP's residents live outside Kingston, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 12401 profile.

Closest cities in New York

  1. Poughkeepsie Safety Score 24 · grade D · 16 miles
  2. Beacon Safety Score 30 · grade D · 29 miles
  3. Newburgh Safety Score 20 · grade D · 29 miles
  4. Middletown Safety Score 46 · grade C · 40 miles
  5. Woodbury Safety Score 66 · grade B · 41 miles

Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.

About Kingston

Kingston has an estimated 23,748 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 7.5 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 24 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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Scores as of

Safety Scores compare areas on a 0–100 scale; higher is safer. Scores are modeled estimates, not official crime rates or reported incident counts.

City scores combine the scored neighborhoods that lie at least partly within city limits, weighted by their estimated residents inside the limits. They are not an average of the ZIP scores listed for a city.

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