Safety · New Castle
New Castle, NY crime & safety
New Castle's reported crime rate is well below New York's. Most reported incidents are property crimes, mainly thefts. Violent crime is rare: 2 reported in 2023.
Crime reported to police, trends and how New Castle compares with the towns next door, from FBI data.
Reported crime, 2023
New Castle at a glance
Violent crime
0.1
per 1,000 residents · New York 4
Property crime
3.6
per 1,000 residents · New York 18.7
Incidents reported
65
2 violent · 63 property
Violent crime per 1,000
Property crime per 1,000
Trend
Reported crime per 1,000 residents, 2022–2023
New CastleNew York
Solid lines: property crime · dashed: violent crime.
Show as a table
| Year | New Castle property | New York property | New Castle violent | New York violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 4.3 | 17.4 | 0.1 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 3.6 | 18.7 | 0.1 | 4 |
What gets reported
2023, by type
Larceny / theft
54
Burglary
5
Vehicle theft
4
Aggravated assault
2
Robbery
0
Rape
0
Homicide
0
Arson
3
Offenses reported to police, not convictions.
Who keeps New Castle safe
Local public safety
👮 New Castle Police DepartmentReports its crime counts to the FBI — the figures on this page.
🚨 EmergenciesCall 911. For non-emergency numbers, alerts and preparedness, see the town guide.
Next door
New Castle and its neighbors
Reported crime per 1,000 residents in each town's latest year. * = a count, for towns under 1,000 people.
| Town | Violent | Property | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Castle | 0.1 | 3.6 | 2023 |
| Mount Pleasant | 0.6 | 7.1 | 2023 |
| Yorktown | 0.5 | 5.4 | 2025 |
| North Castle | 0.6 | 6.2 | 2025 |
| Bedford | 0.1 | 3 | 2025 |
No town figures in the FBI's data: Mount Kisco, Somers, Chappaqua, Ossining, Armonk, Cortlandt.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can't tell you
- It's reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many thefts and some assaults are never reported.
- Small numbers swing. In a town of about 17,600, a handful of incidents moves the rate noticeably from year to year. The trend matters more than any one year.
- Visitors count too. Towns with a campus, highway, beach or shopping center see incidents involving people who don't live there, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn't report a full year, not that nothing happened.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2023, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. This isn't an official statement of public safety — in an emergency, call 911.