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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Newburgh, NY
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Newburgh, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Newburgh. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Newburgh, NY safe?
Newburgh, New York has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 20 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
- 20 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 8%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 84%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 26
How Newburgh compares
Newburgh scores 26 points below the New York statewide score of 46. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Newburgh lies in Orange County, which has a county Safety Score of 73, grade B.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Newburgh.
Neighborhoods inside Newburgh
26 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Newburgh, 26 of them mostly inside it. Among those 26, the lowest scores 0, the highest 87, and the middle 80% range from 4 to 52.
ZIP codes where Newburgh residents live
An estimated 99% of Newburgh's residents live in ZIP 12550 (Safety Score 44, grade C). An estimated 48% of that ZIP's residents live outside Newburgh, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 12550 profile.
Closest cities in New York
- Beacon Safety Score 30 · grade D · 2.8 miles
- Woodbury Safety Score 66 · grade B · 12 miles
- Kiryas Joel Safety Score 6 · grade F · 14 miles
- Poughkeepsie Safety Score 24 · grade D · 14 miles
- Peekskill Safety Score 57 · grade C · 16 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Newburgh
Newburgh has an estimated 28,181 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 3.8 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 26 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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