Analytics built by: Location, Inc.
Raw data sources: 18,000 local law enforcement agencies in the U.S.
Date(s) & Update Frequency: Reflects 2022 calendar year; released from FBI in Oct. 2023 (latest available). Updated annually. Where is 2023 data?
Methodology: Our nationwide meta-analysis overcomes the issues inherent in any crime database, including non-reporting and reporting errors. This is possible by associating the 9.4 million reported crimes in the U.S, including over 2 million geocoded point locations…. Read more about Scout's Crime Data
Lake Grove has an overall crime rate of 12 per 1,000 residents, making the crime rate here near the average for all cities and towns of all sizes in America. According to our analysis of FBI crime data, your chance of becoming a victim of crime in Lake Grove is 1 in 82. How does Lake Grove fare compared to other communities in New York of all population sizes? Lake Grove's crime rate is lower than approximately 30% of New York communities.
How does the crime rate in Lake Grove compare to similar sized communities across America? When NeighborhoodScout compared Lake Grove with other communities its size, we found that the crime rate was near the average for all other communities of similar size. So, whether Lake Grove's crime rate is high or low compared to all places in the US, when we control for population size and compare it to places that are similar in size, it is near the middle of the pack in crime rate; not much more or less dangerous, and about what we would expect from the statistics.
Now let us turn to take a look at how Lake Grove does for violent crimes specifically, and then how it does for property crimes. This is important because the overall crime rate can be further illuminated by understanding if violent crime or property crimes (or both) are the major contributors to the general rate of crime in Lake Grove.
For Lake Grove, NeighborhoodScout found that the violent crime rate is well below the national average for all communities of all population sizes. Violent crimes such as assault, rape, murder and armed robbery happen less often in Lake Grove than in most of America. One's chance of becoming a victim of a violent crime here is one in 1577, which is a violent crime rate of 1 per one thousand inhabitants.
NeighborhoodScout's analysis also reveals that Lake Grove's rate for property crime is 12 per one thousand population. This makes Lake Grove a place where there is an above average chance of becoming a victim of a property crime, when compared to all other communities in America of all population sizes. Property crimes are motor vehicle theft, arson, larceny, and burglary. Your chance of becoming a victim of any of these crimes in Lake Grove is one in 87.
(100 is safest)
Violent | Property | Total | |
---|---|---|---|
Number of Crimes |
7 |
127 |
134 |
Crime Rate
|
0.63 |
11.50 |
12.14 |
Murder | Rape | Robbery | Assault | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Report Total | Unreported | Unreported | Unreported | Unreported |
Rate per 1,000 | Unreported | Unreported | Unreported | Unreported |
Murder | Rape | Robbery | Assault | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Report Total | 21,156 | 133,294 | 220,450 | 893,980 |
Rate per 1,000 | 0.06 | 0.40 | 0.66 | 2.68 |
burglary | theft | motor vehicle theft | |
---|---|---|---|
Report Total | Unreported | Unreported | Unreported |
Rate per 1,000 | Unreported | Unreported | Unreported |
burglary | theft | motor vehicle theft | |
---|---|---|---|
Report Total | 899,293 | 4,672,363 | 942,173 |
Rate per 1,000 | 2.70 | 14.02 | 2.83 |