What is the crime rate in the Town of Poughkeepsie, NY?

In 2025, the Poughkeepsie Town Police Department reported 67 violent crimes and 757 property crimes to the FBI.

That is 163 violent and 1,847 property crimes per 100,000 of the 40,983 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: 163
Property per 100,000: 1,847
Violent crimes: 67
Property crimes: 757

Crime reported by the Poughkeepsie Town 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	63	153	1,091	2,650	41,164
2024	81	199	1,085	2,663	40,746
2025	67	163	757	1,847	40,983

Violent crimes reported went from 63 in 2023 to 67 in 2025.

Property crimes reported went from 1,091 in 2023 to 757 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.

The Town of Poughkeepsie against New York and the nation

Crimes per 100,000 residents, 2025
	Violent crime	Property crime
Town of Poughkeepsie	163	1,847
Dutchess County	116	606
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 the Town of Poughkeepsie, 2025

Each place’s own police department; rates per 100,000 residents served
Place	Distance	Violent per 100,000	Property per 100,000
Town of Poughkeepsie	—	163	1,847
Poughkeepsie	2.0 mi	560	1,108
Village of Wappingers Falls	4.8 mi	16	231
Town of Lloyd	5.4 mi	126	655
Town of Plattekill	8.5 mi	48	280
Village of Fishkill	9.2 mi	140	934
Town of Hyde Park	10 mi	65	224
Town of East Fishkill	10 mi	74	336

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

A New York town includes the villages and hamlets inside it, so the figures for the Town of Poughkeepsie include them.

The figures for the Town of Poughkeepsie include the places inside it that have pages of their own: Arlington, Crown Heights, Fairview (Dutchess County), MacDonnell Heights, Marist College, Red Oaks Mill, Spackenkill, Vassar College.

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