Borough safety · New York City · data through June 2026

How safe is Bronx, New York?

Bronx, New York covers 37 neighborhoods in SafeRoute's New York City index. Its median safety index is 36/100 — below the citywide median of 53, so more is reported around a typical neighborhood here than across NYC. Riverdale-Spuyten Duyvil scores highest at 88/100; Mount Hope lowest at 19/100.

These figures describe reported crime around each neighborhood's center — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. 2 of 37 neighborhoods here rate low risk, 10 moderate, 20 elevated and 5 high risk.

Every neighborhood in Bronx, safest first

Neighborhood	Index	Band	Incidents
1 Riverdale-Spuyten Duyvil	88/100	Low risk	230
2 Pelham Bay-Country Club-City Island	80/100	Low risk	373
3 Throgs Neck-Schuylerville	67/100	Moderate	712
4 Morris Park	65/100	Moderate	946
5 Co-op City	63/100	Moderate	948
6 Hunts Point	62/100	Moderate	954
7 Pelham Gardens	58/100	Moderate	1,024
8 Castle Hill-Unionport	56/100	Moderate	1,216
9 Soundview-Clason Point	56/100	Moderate	1,161
10 Eastchester-Edenwald-Baychester	54/100	Moderate	1,245
11 Westchester Square	53/100	Moderate	1,273
12 Pelham Parkway-Van Nest	51/100	Moderate	1,397
13 Wakefield-Woodlawn	49/100	Elevated	1,527
14 Parkchester	45/100	Elevated	1,779
15 Kingsbridge-Marble Hill	43/100	Elevated	2,198
16 Allerton	41/100	Elevated	2,048
17 Kingsbridge Heights-Van Cortlandt Village	39/100	Elevated	2,464
18 Williamsbridge-Olinville	37/100	Elevated	2,468
19 West Farms	36/100	Elevated	2,535
20 Norwood	35/100	Elevated	2,545
21 Soundview-Bruckner-Bronx River	34/100	Elevated	2,731
22 Bedford Park	33/100	Elevated	2,821
23 Crotona Park East	31/100	Elevated	3,164
24 Highbridge	29/100	Elevated	3,303
25 Belmont	28/100	Elevated	3,654
26 Claremont Village-Claremont (East)	28/100	Elevated	3,730
27 University Heights (South)-Morris Heights	28/100	Elevated	3,614
28 Tremont	27/100	Elevated	3,805
29 Concourse-Concourse Village	26/100	Elevated	4,164
30 Longwood	26/100	Elevated	4,146
31 University Heights (North)-Fordham	26/100	Elevated	4,071
32 Mott Haven-Port Morris	25/100	Elevated	4,218
33 Morrisania	23/100	High risk	4,757
34 Mount Eden-Claremont (West)	21/100	High risk	5,234
35 Melrose	20/100	High risk	5,543
36 Fordham Heights	19/100	High risk	6,244
37 Mount Hope	19/100	High risk	5,805

How Bronx compares across NYC

Boroughs (safest first)	Median index	Neighborhoods
Staten Island	88/100	16
Queens	67/100	59
Brooklyn	51/100	53
Bronx (this page)	36/100	37
Manhattan	31/100	32

Common questions

What is the safest neighborhood in Bronx, New York?

Riverdale-Spuyten Duyvil has the highest SafeRoute safety index in Bronx, New York, at 88/100 (low risk), from 230 reported incidents within 1 km of its center. Pelham Bay-Country Club-City Island (80/100) and Throgs Neck-Schuylerville (67/100) follow.

Which neighborhood in Bronx, New York has the most reported crime?

Mount Hope has the lowest index in Bronx, New York, at 19/100, with 5,805 reported incidents within 1 km of its center. A low score means more is reported around that center, which busy commercial and transport areas produce simply by having more people in them — it is not a measure of how dangerous a resident's street is.

Is Bronx, New York safe?

Across its 37 neighborhoods the median SafeRoute safety index is 36/100, against 53 across NYC. 2 rate low risk, 10 moderate, 20 elevated and 5 high risk. These describe reported crime only and vary widely within the borough — check the individual neighborhood rather than reading one number for the whole of it.

How is the SafeRoute safety index calculated?

SafeRoute weights each incident reported to the NYPD by severity (violence weighs more than shoplifting), sums the last available period within 1 km of the neighborhood center, and normalizes against citywide crime rates onto a 0–100 scale — higher is safer. It describes reported crime only; it is not a guarantee of safety. The figure shown for Bronx, New York is the median of its 37 neighborhoods — the borough is not measured separately.

Methodology

Each incident reported to the NYPD (via NYC Open Data) is weighted by severity — violence counts for more than shoplifting. For every neighborhood we sum weighted incidents within 1 km of its center (2020 Neighborhood Tabulation Area centroids), and normalize against citywide crime rates onto a 0–100 index, higher = safer. Time-of-day charts use NYPD incident timestamps, severity-weighted. Pages regenerate as new data is published.

The index compares neighborhoods within New York City. It is not comparable between cities: each police force publishes a different set of offences over a different period — New York's figures cannot be read against another city's on the same 0–100 scale.