Borough safety · New York City · data through June 2026

How safe is Brooklyn, New York?

Brooklyn, New York covers 53 neighborhoods in SafeRoute's New York City index. Its median safety index is 51/100 — close to the citywide median of 53. Windsor Terrace-South Slope scores highest at 86/100; Brownsville lowest at 24/100.

These figures describe reported crime around each neighborhood's center — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. 1 of 53 neighborhoods here rates low risk, 26 moderate, 25 elevated and 1 high risk.

Every neighborhood in Brooklyn, safest first

Neighborhood	Index	Band	Incidents
1 Windsor Terrace-South Slope	86/100	Low risk	270
2 Mapleton-Midwood (West)	74/100	Moderate	535
3 Borough Park	73/100	Moderate	610
4 Dyker Heights	70/100	Moderate	684
5 Greenpoint	70/100	Moderate	680
6 Gravesend (East)-Homecrest	68/100	Moderate	709
7 Marine Park-Mill Basin-Bergen Beach	67/100	Moderate	852
8 Midwood	67/100	Moderate	755
9 Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach-Gerritsen Beach	67/100	Moderate	693
10 Flatlands	65/100	Moderate	849
11 Kensington	65/100	Moderate	827
12 Madison	64/100	Moderate	885
13 Gravesend (South)	62/100	Moderate	931
14 Bay Ridge	60/100	Moderate	1,017
15 East Williamsburg	60/100	Moderate	976
16 Park Slope	60/100	Moderate	1,056
17 Spring Creek-Starrett City	60/100	Moderate	1,070
18 Bath Beach	59/100	Moderate	973
19 Brighton Beach	58/100	Moderate	1,080
20 Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook	58/100	Moderate	1,085
21 Canarsie	57/100	Moderate	1,147
22 Gravesend (West)	57/100	Moderate	1,096
23 Sunset Park (West)	57/100	Moderate	1,099
24 Bensonhurst	56/100	Moderate	1,207
25 East Flatbush-Farragut	53/100	Moderate	1,342
26 Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville	51/100	Moderate	1,422
27 Sunset Park (East)-Borough Park (West)	51/100	Moderate	1,413
28 Clinton Hill	49/100	Elevated	1,541
29 Cypress Hills	49/100	Elevated	1,408
30 Prospect Heights	49/100	Elevated	1,567
31 South Williamsburg	48/100	Elevated	1,652
32 Williamsburg	47/100	Elevated	1,758
33 East Flatbush-Rugby	46/100	Elevated	1,813
34 Coney Island-Sea Gate	42/100	Elevated	2,112
35 Crown Heights (South)	42/100	Elevated	2,051
36 East New York-City Line	42/100	Elevated	2,097
37 Brooklyn Heights	41/100	Elevated	2,265
38 Sunset Park (Central)	41/100	Elevated	2,160
39 East New York-New Lots	39/100	Elevated	2,304
40 Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate	39/100	Elevated	2,238
41 Bedford-Stuyvesant (East)	38/100	Elevated	2,387
42 Flatbush	38/100	Elevated	2,444
43 Bushwick (East)	37/100	Elevated	2,443
44 East Flatbush-Remsen Village	36/100	Elevated	2,649
45 Bushwick (West)	34/100	Elevated	2,882
46 Crown Heights (North)	34/100	Elevated	2,853
47 Bedford-Stuyvesant (West)	33/100	Elevated	3,049
48 East Flatbush-Erasmus	33/100	Elevated	3,045
49 East New York (North)	30/100	Elevated	3,330
50 Fort Greene	29/100	Elevated	4,060
51 Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill	27/100	Elevated	4,157
52 Ocean Hill	26/100	Elevated	4,113
53 Brownsville	24/100	High risk	4,423

How Brooklyn compares across NYC

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

Common questions

What is the safest neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York?

Windsor Terrace-South Slope has the highest SafeRoute safety index in Brooklyn, New York, at 86/100 (low risk), from 270 reported incidents within 1 km of its center. Mapleton-Midwood (West) (74/100) and Borough Park (73/100) follow.

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

Brownsville has the lowest index in Brooklyn, New York, at 24/100, with 4,423 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 Brooklyn, New York safe?

Across its 53 neighborhoods the median SafeRoute safety index is 51/100, against 53 across NYC. 1 rates low risk, 26 moderate, 25 elevated and 1 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 Brooklyn, New York is the median of its 53 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.