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

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

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City Safety Score 28/100 Grade D Modeled estimate · 0 to 100, higher is safer
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Is Watervliet, NY safe?

Watervliet, New York has a CrimeScore Safety Score of 28 out of 100, grade D, below the New York statewide score of 46. Under 1% 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
28 / 100
Residents in A or B neighborhoods
<1%
Residents in D or F neighborhoods
94%
Scored neighborhoods
10

How Watervliet compares

Watervliet scores 18 points below the New York statewide score of 46. Both scores average neighborhood scores weighted by population, so they compare directly.

Watervliet lies in Albany County, which has a county Safety Score of 47, grade C.

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

Neighborhoods inside Watervliet

10 scored neighborhoods (Census block groups) with residents lie at least partly inside Watervliet, 9 of them mostly inside it. Among those 9, the lowest scores 17, the highest 49, and the middle 80% range from 21 to 37.

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

Watervliet

A 0% · B 0% · C 6% · D 78% · F 16%

New York

A 17% · B 17% · C 23% · D 23% · F 21%

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

ZIP codes where Watervliet residents live

Nearly all of Watervliet's estimated residents live in ZIP 12189 (Safety Score 41, grade C). An estimated 48% of that ZIP's residents live outside Watervliet, and the ZIP score includes them. See the ZIP 12189 profile.

Closest cities in New York

  1. Troy Safety Score 21 · grade D · 1.6 miles
  2. Cohoes Safety Score 35 · grade D · 3.3 miles
  3. Albany Safety Score 25 · grade D · 6.0 miles
  4. Schenectady Safety Score 26 · grade D · 13 miles
  5. Saratoga Springs Safety Score 38 · grade D · 25 miles

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

About Watervliet

Watervliet has an estimated 10,268 residents (2024 Census estimate) and 1.3 square miles of land inside its 2020 city limits. Its city score combines 10 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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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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