Borough safety · New York City · data through June 2026

How safe is Manhattan, New York?

Manhattan, New York covers 32 neighborhoods in SafeRoute's New York City index. Its median safety index is 31/100 — below the citywide median of 53, so more is reported around a typical neighborhood here than across NYC. Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island scores highest at 48/100; Midtown-Times Square lowest at 17/100.

These figures describe reported crime around each neighborhood's center — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. 0 of 32 neighborhoods here rate low risk, 0 moderate, 26 elevated and 6 high risk.

Every neighborhood in Manhattan, safest first

Neighborhood	Index	Band	Incidents
1 Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island	48/100	Elevated	1,937
2 Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill	47/100	Elevated	2,014
3 Inwood	44/100	Elevated	1,901
4 Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village	43/100	Elevated	2,016
5 Upper East Side-Yorkville	43/100	Elevated	2,203
6 Upper West Side (Central)	43/100	Elevated	2,101
7 Financial District-Battery Park City	42/100	Elevated	2,435
8 Morningside Heights	41/100	Elevated	2,122
9 Upper West Side-Manhattan Valley	39/100	Elevated	2,446
10 Washington Heights (North)	39/100	Elevated	2,341
11 East Midtown-Turtle Bay	38/100	Elevated	2,677
12 Upper West Side-Lincoln Square	38/100	Elevated	2,648
13 West Village	37/100	Elevated	2,570
14 Murray Hill-Kips Bay	36/100	Elevated	2,733
15 Washington Heights (South)	36/100	Elevated	2,611
16 Hamilton Heights-Sugar Hill	31/100	Elevated	3,231
17 Manhattanville-West Harlem	29/100	Elevated	3,589
18 Chelsea-Hudson Yards	28/100	Elevated	3,837
19 East Harlem (South)	28/100	Elevated	3,718
20 East Village	28/100	Elevated	3,904
21 Tribeca-Civic Center	28/100	Elevated	4,129
22 Chinatown-Two Bridges	27/100	Elevated	4,010
23 Lower East Side	26/100	Elevated	4,200
24 Gramercy	25/100	Elevated	4,903
25 Harlem (North)	25/100	Elevated	4,506
26 Harlem (South)	25/100	Elevated	4,536
27 East Harlem (North)	24/100	High risk	4,443
28 SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square	24/100	High risk	5,110
29 Greenwich Village	23/100	High risk	5,509
30 Hell's Kitchen	22/100	High risk	5,427
31 Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square	19/100	High risk	6,989
32 Midtown-Times Square	17/100	High risk	7,504

How Manhattan compares across NYC

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

Common questions

What is the safest neighborhood in Manhattan, New York?

Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island has the highest SafeRoute safety index in Manhattan, New York, at 48/100 (elevated), from 1,937 reported incidents within 1 km of its center. Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill (47/100) and Inwood (44/100) follow.

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

Midtown-Times Square has the lowest index in Manhattan, New York, at 17/100, with 7,504 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 Manhattan, New York safe?

Across its 32 neighborhoods the median SafeRoute safety index is 31/100, against 53 across NYC. 0 rate low risk, 0 moderate, 26 elevated and 6 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 Manhattan, New York is the median of its 32 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.