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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Oswego, NY
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores in Oswego, see which ZIP codes its residents live in, and compare the closest cities.
Explore neighborhood Safety Scores around Oswego. The map can include areas outside the city limits.
Is Oswego, NY safe?
Oswego, New York has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 32 out of 100, grade D, below the New York statewide score of 46. An estimated 18% 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
- 32 / 100
- Residents in A or B neighborhoods
- 18%
- Residents in D or F neighborhoods
- 73%
- Scored neighborhoods
- 15
How Oswego compares
Oswego scores 14 points below the New York statewide score of 46. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.
Oswego lies in Oswego County, which has a county Safety Score of 37, grade D.
County Safety Scores describe whole counties and are measured differently, so they are not an average of the neighborhoods inside Oswego.
Neighborhoods inside Oswego
15 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Oswego, 15 of them mostly inside it. Among those 15, the lowest scores 4, the highest 93, and the middle 80% range from 8 to 71.
ZIP codes where Oswego residents live
Nearly all of Oswego's estimated residents live in ZIP 13126 (Safety Score 44, grade C). An estimated 52% of that ZIP's residents live outside Oswego, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 13126 profile.
Closest cities in New York
- Fulton Safety Score 21 · grade D · 10 miles
- Syracuse Safety Score 20 · grade D · 34 miles
- Auburn Safety Score 24 · grade D · 36 miles
- Watertown Safety Score 23 · grade D · 47 miles
- Geneva Safety Score 23 · grade D · 47 miles
Distances are measured between the population-weighted centers of each city's scored neighborhoods.
About Oswego
Oswego has an estimated 17,047 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 7.6 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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