What is the crime rate in Rensselaer, NY?

In 2025, the Rensselaer City Police Department reported 16 violent crimes and 87 property crimes to the FBI.

That is 168 violent and 914 property crimes per 100,000 of the 9,516 residents it serves.

Across New York the rates were 368 and 1,566.

Nationally they were 330 and 1,552.

Figures last updated on November 12, 2026.

Violent per 100,000: 168
Property per 100,000: 914
Violent crimes: 16
Property crimes: 87

Crime reported by the Rensselaer City Police Department, 2023 to 2025

Offenses known to law enforcement, reported to the FBI; rates per 100,000 residents of the area the department serves
Year	Violent crimes	Violent per 100,000	Property crimes	Property per 100,000	Residents served
2023	16	173	132	1,424	9,267
2024	5	54	116	1,242	9,343
2025	16	168	87	914	9,516

Violent crimes reported went from 16 in 2023 to 16 in 2025.

Property crimes reported went from 132 in 2023 to 87 in 2025.

In a small town a handful of incidents moves these numbers a long way, so one year’s change says little on its own.

Rensselaer against New York and the nation

Crimes per 100,000 residents, 2025
	Violent crime	Property crime
Rensselaer	168	914
Rensselaer County	135	1,132
New York	368	1,566
United States	330	1,552

These are rates per resident; they are not adjusted for visitors, commuters or the size of the area, which raise or lower a town’s figures without changing anybody’s risk.

Crime reported in places near Rensselaer, 2025

Each place’s own police department; rates per 100,000 residents served
Place	Distance	Violent per 100,000	Property per 100,000
Rensselaer	—	168	914
Village of Menands	3.2 mi	200	1,537
Town of East Greenbush	3.3 mi	30	1,488
Albany	3.6 mi	832	2,714
Town of North Greenbush	3.7 mi	81	1,059
Watervliet	5.6 mi	224	1,825
Town of Bethlehem	6.4 mi	51	997
Troy	6.9 mi	345	2,306
Town of Colonie	7.1 mi	149	2,884

Neighboring departments count the same offenses the same way, but their areas, populations and visitors differ, so a difference between two towns is a starting point for a question, not an answer.

How to read these numbers

These are offenses known to the police and reported to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program: crimes nobody reported, or that a department did not record, are not in them.

Violent crime is murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault; property crime is burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft and arson.

A department reports the crimes in the area it polices, which can differ from the town’s boundaries, and the FBI estimates the population it serves.

The FBI asks that these figures not be used to rank places or to judge how safe a neighborhood is: crime depends on many local factors, and the counts describe a whole town, not any street or home.

A year is shown only when the department reported all twelve months.

FBI: Uniform Crime Reporting statistics and their proper use

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