City overview
Rochester
48 neighborhoods covered by the Rochester police open-data feed. Browse a specific area below or jump into the live app.
Citywide Safety Index
Rochester (citywide) reports higher per-capita rates than the FBI national rate. Use the cards below to see which category drives the gap.
persons: 551/100k vs FBI 379.5/100k (+45%)property: 2522/100k vs FBI 1934.1/100k (+30%)
Source: FBI UCR national rate per 100k (2023 revised, per CIUS 2024) · newest report Jun 18, 2026
Compare Rochester to another city
Pick a city to render its citywide safety card below — both compared to the FBI national average.
Neighborhoods
- 14621
- 19th Ward
- ABC Streets
- Azalea
- B.E.S.T.
- Beechwood
- Bensonhurst
- Brown Square
- Browncroft
- Central Business District
- Charlotte
- Cobbs Hill
- CONEA
- Corn Hill
- Culver Merchants
- Culver University East
- Durand Eastman Park
- Edgerton
- EMMA-ACE
- Genesee Valley Park
- Genesee-Jefferson
- High Falls
- Highland Park
- JOSANA
- Lilac
- Lock 66
- Lyell-Otis
- Maplewood
- Mayors Heights
- Neighborhood of the Arts
- NEMNU
- North Edge
- North Marketview Heights
- North Winton Village
- P.O.D.
- Park Central
- Park Meigs
- Pearl-Meigs-Monroe
- Plymouth-Exchange
- South Marketview Heights
- South Wedge
- Susan B. Anthony
- Swillburg
- U of R
- Upper Monroe
- Upper Mount Hope
- Wadsworth Square
- Westside
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How to read this: CommunitySafe summarizes publicly published police reports. Scores reflect historical reporting only — not predictions of future risk, and not a substitute for professional safety advice. These scores should not be used as the sole basis for housing, lending, insurance, or hiring decisions — verify each statistic with the cited official source before acting on it. See /methodology for how the index is computed.
About Rochester safety data
This overview aggregates Rochester's official police open-data feed across 48 neighborhoods and compares it to the FBI Crime Data Explorer 2023 national rate per 100,000 residents. Rochester currently carries a citywide Safety Index of D. Rochester (citywide) reports higher per-capita rates than the FBI national rate. Use the cards below to see which category drives the gap.
Use the neighborhood list above to drill into a specific area — every area has its own running incident timeline and category breakdown. Safety is local: a citywide grade smooths over real differences between neighborhoods, so we always recommend reading the area you actually care about rather than the headline number. For the full data sourcing, population normalization, and grade thresholds, see our methodology. To compare Rochester against another metro, use the comparison tool above.