Is Brooklyn Safe? 2025 and 2026 Crime Data for All 23 Precincts

How Brooklyn Compares With the Rest of New York City

Brooklyn is below the city average on violent felonies, on all seven major felonies and on felony assault (319 per 100,000 residents in 2025 against 348), and above it on shootings.

As odds, Brooklyn recorded one violent felony for every 204 residents in 2025; the city, one for every 182. That is not a 1-in-204 chance of being a victim: some people are victims more than once, some victims live elsewhere, and crimes nobody reports are missing. Our NYC safety guide compares New York with other large US cities.

Which NYC borough has the most crime

The Bronx had the highest rate on both measures in 2025: 1,017 violent felonies and 2,170 major felonies per 100,000 residents, against 551 and 1,418 citywide. Manhattan was second for major felonies (1,823), 70% of them property crimes. Brooklyn ranked third-highest for violent felonies (490), third-highest for all seven (1,170) and second-highest for shootings. Staten Island was lowest on both (282 and 692). The Bronx guide breaks that borough down by precinct.

Is Crime in Brooklyn Going Up or Down?

Violent crime fell between 2006 and 2019 and has risen since. Brooklyn's violent-felony rate went from 600 per 100,000 residents in 2006 to 395 in 2019 and 490 in 2025, up 24% on 2019 and the highest since 2014 (492). In 2006 Brooklyn's rate was 14% above the city's (600 against 527). It is now 11% below it, partly because the city's rate rose faster after 2019 (+33% against Brooklyn's +24%).

Felony assaults carry the rise. Brooklyn recorded 6,101 in 2019 and 8,471 in 2025, 2,370 more, while violent felonies as a whole rose by 2,189 because robberies (down 4%) and murders (down 8%) fell. Strangulation complaints went from 1,051 to 1,339, 12% of the added assaults. Without them, felony assaults rose 41% (5,050 to 7,132), and nothing in the complaint data explains that part. Property felonies per resident were up 10% on 2019.

NYPD's CompStat reports reach back to 1990, before the open data. Brooklyn recorded 158,388 major felonies that year and 30,991 in 2025 (−80%).

Source: NYPD CompStat weekly reports for Patrol Borough Brooklyn North and South (Volume 33, Number 45), “Historical Perspective” tables, added together. Counts, not rates. *New York State broadened the legal definition of rape in September 2024, so 2025 rape counts are not comparable with earlier years. †2025 felony assaults include 1,339 strangulation complaints (open data), an offense that was not a felony before 2010.

January–September 2026 against the same months of 2025

January–September of each year. Source: NYPD complaint data and shooting incident data via NYC Open Data, through September 30, 2026; complaints by date reported, shootings by date of occurrence. Citywide, the seven major felonies fell 6% over the same months. *Rape rose 9% under the definition New York State broadened in September 2024. Citywide, the NYPD says 20.6% of the rapes reported in the first ten months of 2026 fall under the wider definition (NYPD, November 9, 2026); it publishes no Brooklyn figure.

NYPD's weekly CompStat report, preliminary and later revised, runs to November 8, 2026: 61 murders in Brooklyn since January 1, 2026 against 84 a year earlier, 180 shooting incidents against 219, and 24,967 major felonies against 26,826 (−7%).

Where in Brooklyn: All 23 Precincts Ranked

The 66th Precinct, which covers Borough Park, Midwood, Kensington, recorded 1.7 violent felonies per 1,000 residents in 2025. The 73rd Precinct (Brownsville, Ocean Hill) recorded 12.1, 7.2 times as many. 10 of the 23 precincts are above the Brooklyn rate of 4.8, and 19 recorded more violent felonies in 2025 than in 2019.

The 84th Precinct had the largest rise: 287 violent felonies in 2019 and 660 in 2025 (+130%). Felony assaults there went from 143 to 401 and robberies from 140 to 241; strangulation complaints, from 18 to 31, explain little of it. Its yearly count ranged from 276 to 402 between 2006 and 2019, then reached 417 in 2023, 589 in 2024 and 660 in 2025. The precinct covers Brooklyn Heights, Boerum Hill, Vinegar Hill and Downtown Brooklyn and has 65,597 residents. The complaint data does not say why its count more than doubled.

The five highest-rate precincts, then and now

The five hold 21% of Brooklyn's residents and recorded 38% of its violent felonies and 42% of its shooting incidents in 2025. Across the five, murders went from 328 in 1990 to 37.

1. 73rd Precinct: 12.1 violent / 1,000 in 2025

   Brownsville, Ocean Hill

   Violent 2019 → 2025

   946 → 1,193 (+26%)

   Assaults 2019 → 2025

   594 → 838

   Robberies 2019 → 2025

   294 → 304

   Murders 1990 → 2025

   60 → 7

   Shootings 2006 → 2025

   81 → 34

2. 84th Precinct: 10.1 violent / 1,000 in 2025

   Brooklyn Heights, Boerum Hill, Vinegar Hill, Downtown Brooklyn

   Violent 2019 → 2025

   287 → 660 (+130%)

   Assaults 2019 → 2025

   143 → 401

   Robberies 2019 → 2025

   140 → 241

   Murders 1990 → 2025

   18 → 3

   Shootings 2006 → 2025

   7 → 4

3. 75th Precinct: 8.4 violent / 1,000 in 2025

   East New York, Cypress Hills, Starrett City

   Violent 2019 → 2025

   1,731 → 1,696 (−2%)

   Assaults 2019 → 2025

   944 → 1,069

   Robberies 2019 → 2025

   684 → 530

   Murders 1990 → 2025

   109 → 14

   Shootings 2006 → 2025

   87 → 36

4. 77th Precinct: 6.7 violent / 1,000 in 2025

   Crown Heights (north), Prospect Heights

   Violent 2019 → 2025

   489 → 679 (+39%)

   Assaults 2019 → 2025

   256 → 463

   Robberies 2019 → 2025

   196 → 186

   Murders 1990 → 2025

   70 → 5

   Shootings 2006 → 2025

   54 → 14

5. 79th Precinct: 6.6 violent / 1,000 in 2025

   Bedford-Stuyvesant

   Violent 2019 → 2025

   660 → 704 (+7%)

   Assaults 2019 → 2025

   371 → 480

   Robberies 2019 → 2025

   264 → 197

   Murders 1990 → 2025

   71 → 8

   Shootings 2006 → 2025

   63 → 16

Sources: 2019 and 2025 counts and rates from NYPD complaint data via NYC Open Data and 2020 Census precinct population; 1990 counts from each precinct's NYPD CompStat report, week ending November 8, 2026; shootings from NYPD Shooting Incident Data. 2025 felony assaults include strangulation complaints: 117 in the 73rd, 31 in the 84th, 171 in the 75th, 91 in the 77th and 81 in the 79th.

What Is the Toughest Neighborhood in Brooklyn?

Counting murders, robberies and felony assaults per 1,000 residents over the 12 months to June 2026, the highest rates were in Downtown Brooklyn (13.5), Brownsville (11.4), Ocean Hill (9.4), East New York (8.5) and Coney Island (7.9), against 4.5 across the 37 Brooklyn neighborhoods DwellCheck tracks. By precinct, the 73rd Precinct (Brownsville, Ocean Hill) had the highest rate in 2025: 12.1 violent felonies per 1,000 residents.

Source: NYPD complaint data via NYC Open Data, June 30, 2025 to June 29, 2026, inside each neighborhood's boundary; 2020 Census population. *NYPD publishes every rape complaint in a precinct at one map point, so the neighborhood containing that point receives all of the precinct's rape complaints. Downtown Brooklyn holds the point for the 84th (16 complaints). Ocean Hill holds the point for the 73rd (33 complaints). East New York holds the point for the 69th and 75th (89 complaints). Coney Island holds the point for the 60th (33 complaints). The ranking leaves rape out for that reason.

Downtown Brooklyn has 40,968 residents and is the borough's main office, court and shopping district, so its rate divides crimes against everyone present by residents only. The rape point it holds moves its rate from 13.5 to 13.9, a small part of the total. Brownsville, which holds no rape point, has a rate of 11.4.

The Safest Parts of Brooklyn

By precinct, the lowest violent-felony rates in 2025 were in the 66th (Borough Park, Midwood, Kensington; 1.7 per 1,000), the 68th (Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights; 1.7 per 1,000), the 62nd (Bensonhurst, Mapleton, Bath Beach, Gravesend (part); 2.0 per 1,000), the 63rd (Marine Park, Flatlands; 2.6 per 1,000) and the 61st (Gravesend, Sheepshead Bay, Manhattan Beach, Kings Bay; 2.7 per 1,000). By neighborhood, the fewest murders, robberies and felony assaults per resident over the 12 months to June 2026 were in Windsor Terrace (0.5 per 1,000), Borough Park (0.9 per 1,000) and Dyker Heights (1.3 per 1,000). Counting every complaint category, Borough Park had the lowest rate, 14.9 per 1,000 residents.

Source: NYPD complaint data via NYC Open Data, June 30, 2025 to June 29, 2026; 2020 Census population by Neighborhood Tabulation Area. All complaint categories, so these rates are not comparable with the felony rates above. The violent column includes rape complaints, placed by precinct as noted above.

Google's AI Overview for “is brooklyn safe” names Brooklyn Heights, Park Slope and Bay Ridge as safe. On reported crimes per resident they rank 10th, 20th and 11th of 37, and their violent rates (2.0, 2.1 and 1.7 per 1,000) are below the 4.7 for all tracked neighborhoods. Our safest neighborhoods in Brooklyn ranking uses a third measure, complaints within a 300-meter walk, which does not depend on population; its lowest are Windsor Terrace-South Slope, Mapleton-Midwood (West) and Marine Park-Mill Basin-Bergen Beach.

Williamsburg, Bushwick, Bed-Stuy and Other Areas People Search For

Each area is matched to the precinct covering most of it, with that precinct's 2025 violent-felony rate (Brooklyn: 4.8) and every complaint inside the neighborhood's own boundary over the 12 months to June 2026. Downtown Brooklyn, Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, Crown Heights, Coney Island, Brownsville and East New York are in precincts above the Brooklyn rate. Williamsburg is in precincts below it.

Rank among 37 neighborhoods, lowest first. Sources: NYPD complaint data via NYC Open Data (2025 by precinct; June 30, 2025 to June 29, 2026 by neighborhood); 2020 Census population. Percentages show the share of an area in each precinct.

Longer reads: living in Williamsburg, living in Bushwick and living in Park Slope.

Is Brooklyn Safer Than Manhattan?

Per resident, Brooklyn has less violent and property crime; per person present, it has more violent crime. In 2025 Manhattan recorded 549 violent felonies per 100,000 residents against Brooklyn's 490, and 1,274 property felonies against 680. Crimes are counted where they happen, and Manhattan fills with commuters. The Census Bureau puts Manhattan's commuter-adjusted population at 3,212,003, 1.9 times its 1,660,664 residents (ACS 2024). Brooklyn's is 2,356,896, below its 2,617,631 residents (ACS 2024), because more Brooklynites work elsewhere than outsiders work in Brooklyn.

The two denominators give Manhattan a violent-felony rate 12% above Brooklyn's per resident and 48% below it per person present on a workday. Neither counts tourists or shoppers, and the workday figure overstates who is there at night, so neither is a bound on the true gap. Gun violence runs the other way: 9.2 shooting incidents per 100,000 residents in Brooklyn against 5.4 in Manhattan. Harlem has its own neighborhood deep-dive.

Shootings in Brooklyn, 2006 to 2025

Police recorded 673 shooting incidents in Brooklyn in 2006 and 245 in 2025, down 64%. The count jumped to 652 in 2020 and has fallen 62% since. 2025 was the lowest year in the series. 308 people were shot in 2025, 47 of them fatally. In the 73rd Precinct the count went from 81 to 34.

What Kind of Crime Is Reported in Brooklyn

Of the 162,387 complaints the NYPD recorded in Brooklyn in 2025, 68% were misdemeanors or violations and 8.0% violent felonies. The most common complaint types in our neighborhood files are second-degree harassment, petit larceny and third-degree (misdemeanor) assault. Among the seven major felonies, grand larceny leads (11,519, 37%). 45% of violent felonies were reported inside a residence and 29% on the street.

On the subway

NYPD recorded 12,092 complaints in 2025 with the premises given as the subway in Brooklyn, 7.4% of the borough's total. 571 of them (4.7%) were major felonies and 285 were violent felonies: 2.2% of Brooklyn's violent felonies, about 5 a week. The complaint data has no ridership figure, so it gives no rate per ride.

Is Brooklyn Safe at Night?

30% of Brooklyn's violent felonies in 2025 happened between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., a third of the day, so the night hours carry no more than their share. 50% happened between 3 p.m. and midnight, and the fewest between 6 and 7 a.m. All reported crime peaks around 6 to 7 p.m.; violent crime stays high later into the evening. Between midnight and 4 a.m., Saturday and Sunday mornings see 1.7 times as many violent felonies per hour as the other five mornings. The data does not count how many people are out at each hour, so it cannot give the risk per person on the street at night.

The busiest hour has 3.2 times the violent felonies of the quietest, a smaller gap than the 7.2 times between precincts.

Is Brooklyn a Good Area to Stay?

The Brooklyn neighborhoods nearest Manhattan sit in 3 precincts with different rates: the 84th (10.1 violent felonies per 1,000 residents in 2025), the 90th (4.0) and the 94th (3.8), against 4.8 for Brooklyn. By neighborhood, over the 12 months to June 2026, violent complaints per 1,000 residents were 13.9 in Downtown Brooklyn, 2.0 in Brooklyn Heights, 3.5 in Williamsburg and 2.8 in Greenpoint. Brooklyn Heights shares the 84th Precinct with Downtown Brooklyn; its own rate is the 8th-lowest of 37. Williamsburg is split between the 90th and the 94th, both below the Brooklyn rate.

Most major felonies there are thefts: 68% in the three precincts were property crimes, 47% grand larceny. They recorded 6 of Brooklyn's 92 murders and 13 of its 245 shooting incidents in 2025. See Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, Williamsburg and Greenpoint. Visitors also ask whether NYC tap water is safe.

Method, Sources and Limits

• Reported is not actual. Every figure is a crime reported to and recorded by the NYPD. Unreported crime is missing, and reporting rates differ by offense and place.
• Rates divide by residents. Areas with offices, stores, transit hubs or beaches have more people present than live there. Precinct populations are from the 2020 Census.
• An area rate is not a personal risk. The data does not say who the victims were or whether they lived in the area.

1. Crime counts. NYPD Complaint Data Historic (qgea-i56i) and Current (5uac-w243), by calendar year reported, 2006–2025, plus January–September 2026 against 2025. Violent felonies are murder and non-negligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and felony assault; property felonies are burglary, grand larceny and grand larceny auto. Pulled November 12, 2026; data through September 30, 2026.
2. Rates. Borough: count ÷ Census Bureau county population that year × 100,000. Precinct: 2025 count ÷ 2020 Census precinct population (John Keefe's block-level allocation; the 23 sum to 2,736,074) × 1,000. The Brooklyn reference on the precinct chart (4.8) uses that 2020 total, so it sits slightly below the borough's 490 per 100,000.
3. Strangulation. Felony-assault complaints whose offense description begins “STRANGULATION”, by year reported, from the same data.
4. Neighborhoods. The 37 Brooklyn neighborhood files DwellCheck publishes: every complaint inside each 2020 Neighborhood Tabulation Area, June 30, 2025 to June 29, 2026, per 1,000 residents (90% of Brooklyn's residents). A neighborhood is matched to a precinct (boundaries) holding at least 30% of its area, measured on a 50-meter grid. In all 23 Brooklyn precincts, rape complaints are published at a single point, which lands in 20 of the neighborhoods.
5. Shootings. NYPD Shooting Incident Data (5ucz-vwe8), incidents by year of occurrence.
6. 1990–2001 and the latest weeks. NYPD CompStat weekly reports for Brooklyn North and Brooklyn South, and each precinct's report, week ending November 8, 2026. The precinct reports sum exactly to the borough reports.
7. Workday population. Census Bureau commuter-adjusted population, American Community Survey 2024 1-year estimates.
8. Checked against NYPD's seven major felonies by precinct table. Brooklyn's open-data totals differ by at most 0.85% in any year 2006–2025; violent felonies by up to 2.41% in the earliest years, when robbery runs slightly low, so the 2006 rate is a slight undercount.

This page counts felonies per resident. The NYC crime rate guide and each neighborhood's safety page count every complaint category, and the Brooklyn roundup counts complaints within 300 meters. All use the same NYPD records.

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