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

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City Safety Score 51/100 Grade C Modeled estimate · 0 to 100, higher is safer
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Is Tonawanda, NY safe?

Tonawanda, New York has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 51 out of 100, grade C, above the New York statewide score of 46. An estimated 36% 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
51 / 100
Residents in A or B neighborhoods
36%
Residents in D or F neighborhoods
29%
Scored neighborhoods
15

How Tonawanda compares

Tonawanda scores 5 points above the New York statewide score of 46. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.

Tonawanda lies in Erie County, which has a county Safety Score of 24, grade D.

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

Neighborhoods inside Tonawanda

15 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Tonawanda, 15 of them mostly inside it. Among those 15, the lowest scores 15, the highest 76, and the middle 80% range from 28 to 76.

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

Tonawanda

A 0% · B 36% · C 35% · D 25% · F 4%

New York

A 17% · B 17% · C 23% · D 23% · F 21%

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

ZIP codes where Tonawanda residents live

Nearly all of Tonawanda's estimated residents live in ZIP 14150 (Safety Score 55, grade C). An estimated 64% of that ZIP's residents live outside Tonawanda, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 14150 profile.

Closest cities in New York

  1. North Tonawanda Safety Score 55 · grade C · 2.5 miles
  2. Kenmore Safety Score 54 · grade C · 3.2 miles
  3. Buffalo Safety Score 22 · grade D · 7.0 miles
  4. Niagara Falls Safety Score 27 · grade D · 9.0 miles
  5. Depew Safety Score 64 · grade B · 11 miles

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

About Tonawanda

Tonawanda has an estimated 14,984 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 3.8 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.

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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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