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Crime Map, Crime Rate and Safety Score in Saratoga Springs, NY

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

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City Safety Score 38/100 Grade D Modeled estimate · 0 to 100, higher is safer
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Is Saratoga Springs, NY safe?

Saratoga Springs, New York has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 38 out of 100, grade D, below the New York statewide score of 46. An estimated 15% 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
38 / 100
Residents in A or B neighborhoods
15%
Residents in D or F neighborhoods
59%
Scored neighborhoods
28

How Saratoga Springs compares

Saratoga Springs scores 8 points below the New York statewide score of 46. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.

Saratoga Springs lies in Saratoga County, which has a county Safety Score of 80, grade A.

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

Neighborhoods inside Saratoga Springs

28 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Saratoga Springs, 28 of them mostly inside it. Among those 28, the lowest scores 1, the highest 85, and the middle 80% range from 5 to 68.

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

Saratoga Springs

A 11% · B 4% · C 26% · D 41% · F 19%

New York

A 17% · B 17% · C 23% · D 23% · F 21%

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

ZIP codes where Saratoga Springs residents live

An estimated 99% of Saratoga Springs's residents live in ZIP 12866 (Safety Score 46, grade C). An estimated 28% of that ZIP's residents live outside Saratoga Springs, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 12866 profile.

Closest cities in New York

  1. Glens Falls Safety Score 42 · grade C · 18 miles
  2. Schenectady Safety Score 26 · grade D · 20 miles
  3. Cohoes Safety Score 35 · grade D · 21 miles
  4. Amsterdam Safety Score 26 · grade D · 22 miles
  5. Troy Safety Score 21 · grade D · 24 miles

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

About Saratoga Springs

Saratoga Springs has an estimated 28,741 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 28.1 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 28 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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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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