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

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City Safety Score 23/100 Grade D Modeled estimate · 0 to 100, higher is safer
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Is Watertown, NY safe?

Watertown, New York has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 23 out of 100, grade D, below the New York statewide score of 46. An estimated 9% 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
23 / 100
Residents in A or B neighborhoods
9%
Residents in D or F neighborhoods
86%
Scored neighborhoods
24

How Watertown compares

Watertown scores 23 points below the New York statewide score of 46. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.

Watertown lies in Jefferson County, which has a county Safety Score of 54, grade C.

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

Neighborhoods inside Watertown

24 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Watertown, 24 of them mostly inside it. Among those 24, the lowest scores 0, the highest 68, and the middle 80% range from 5 to 44.

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

Watertown

A 0% · B 9% · C 5% · D 37% · F 48%

New York

A 17% · B 17% · C 23% · D 23% · F 21%

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

ZIP codes where Watertown residents live

Nearly all of Watertown's estimated residents live in ZIP 13601 (Safety Score 38, grade D). An estimated 33% of that ZIP's residents live outside Watertown, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 13601 profile.

Closest cities in New York

  1. Oswego Safety Score 32 · grade D · 47 miles
  2. Fulton Safety Score 21 · grade D · 52 miles
  3. Rome Safety Score 40 · grade C · 57 miles
  4. Oneida Safety Score 35 · grade D · 62 miles
  5. Syracuse Safety Score 20 · grade D · 65 miles

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

About Watertown

Watertown has an estimated 24,038 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 9 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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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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