Borough safety · New York City · data through June 2026

How safe is Queens, New York?

Queens, New York covers 59 neighborhoods in SafeRoute's New York City index. Its median safety index is 67/100 — above the citywide median of 53, so a typical neighborhood here reads safer than a typical one across NYC. Douglaston-Little Neck scores highest at 92/100; Jamaica lowest at 30/100.

These figures describe reported crime around each neighborhood's center — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. 20 of 59 neighborhoods here rate low risk, 29 moderate, 10 elevated and 0 high risk.

Every neighborhood in Queens, safest first

Neighborhood	Index	Band	Incidents
1 Douglaston-Little Neck	92/100	Low risk	166
2 Bay Terrace-Clearview	89/100	Low risk	191
3 Breezy Point-Belle Harbor-Rockaway Park-Broad Channel	89/100	Low risk	175
4 Oakland Gardens-Hollis Hills	89/100	Low risk	183
5 Glen Oaks-Floral Park-New Hyde Park	86/100	Low risk	254
6 Bellerose	85/100	Low risk	245
7 Whitestone-Beechhurst	85/100	Low risk	285
8 Auburndale	82/100	Low risk	344
9 Glendale	82/100	Low risk	336
10 Howard Beach-Lindenwood	82/100	Low risk	339
11 Jamaica Estates-Holliswood	82/100	Low risk	329
12 East Flushing	80/100	Low risk	365
13 Fresh Meadows-Utopia	80/100	Low risk	396
14 Cambria Heights	79/100	Low risk	405
15 Maspeth	79/100	Low risk	417
16 Murray Hill-Broadway Flushing	79/100	Low risk	383
17 Bayside	78/100	Low risk	430
18 Middle Village	78/100	Low risk	440
19 Springfield Gardens (South)-Brookville	76/100	Low risk	482
20 Queensboro Hill	75/100	Low risk	484
21 Rockaway Beach-Arverne-Edgemere	73/100	Moderate	543
22 St. Albans	73/100	Moderate	541
23 College Point	72/100	Moderate	623
24 Laurelton	72/100	Moderate	599
25 Pomonok-Electchester-Hillcrest	72/100	Moderate	651
26 Rosedale	72/100	Moderate	516
27 Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway	71/100	Moderate	756
28 Kew Gardens Hills	71/100	Moderate	703
29 Queens Village	70/100	Moderate	640
30 Hollis	67/100	Moderate	710
31 Old Astoria-Hallets Point	64/100	Moderate	818
32 Sunnyside	64/100	Moderate	880
33 Woodhaven	64/100	Moderate	804
34 Baisley Park	63/100	Moderate	866
35 South Ozone Park	62/100	Moderate	875
36 Springfield Gardens (North)-Rochdale Village	61/100	Moderate	913
37 Ozone Park	60/100	Moderate	971
38 Kew Gardens	59/100	Moderate	1,027
39 Ozone Park (North)	59/100	Moderate	1,032
40 Richmond Hill	59/100	Moderate	973
41 Forest Hills	57/100	Moderate	1,277
42 South Richmond Hill	57/100	Moderate	1,119
43 Long Island City-Hunters Point	56/100	Moderate	1,233
44 East Elmhurst	55/100	Moderate	1,177
45 Rego Park	55/100	Moderate	1,338
46 Astoria (East)-Woodside (North)	54/100	Moderate	1,327
47 Jamaica Hills-Briarwood	54/100	Moderate	1,269
48 South Jamaica	54/100	Moderate	1,218
49 Woodside	51/100	Moderate	1,516
50 Ridgewood	48/100	Elevated	1,568
51 Astoria (Central)	47/100	Elevated	1,672
52 Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills	44/100	Elevated	1,923
53 Jackson Heights	43/100	Elevated	1,946
54 Corona	42/100	Elevated	1,895
55 Far Rockaway-Bayswater	42/100	Elevated	1,980
56 Elmhurst	39/100	Elevated	2,372
57 Flushing-Willets Point	39/100	Elevated	2,302
58 North Corona	38/100	Elevated	2,277
59 Jamaica	30/100	Elevated	3,484

How Queens compares across NYC

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

Common questions

What is the safest neighborhood in Queens, New York?

Douglaston-Little Neck has the highest SafeRoute safety index in Queens, New York, at 92/100 (low risk), from 166 reported incidents within 1 km of its center. Bay Terrace-Clearview (89/100) and Breezy Point-Belle Harbor-Rockaway Park-Broad Channel (89/100) follow.

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

Jamaica has the lowest index in Queens, New York, at 30/100, with 3,484 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 Queens, New York safe?

Across its 59 neighborhoods the median SafeRoute safety index is 67/100, against 53 across NYC. 20 rate low risk, 29 moderate, 10 elevated and 0 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 Queens, New York is the median of its 59 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.