Is the Bronx Safe? What the NYPD Data Shows, Precinct by Precinct

How the Bronx compares with the rest of New York City

The Bronx has had the highest violent-felony rate of the five boroughs in every year since 2006; in 2025 Manhattan was second at 5.5 per 1,000. The gap is widest for violence: the Bronx's property-felony rate is 1.3 times the citywide rate, its violent-felony rate 1.8 times. For the city as a whole, see is NYC safe.

The Bronx crime rate in 2025

In 2025 the Bronx recorded 30,522 major felonies for about 1.41 million residents (2025 Census estimate): 21.7 per 1,000, against 14.2 citywide. 14,299 of them were violent felonies (10.2 per 1,000; citywide 5.5). Counting every complaint, including misdemeanors and violations, the rate was 92.7 per 1,000, against 67.5 citywide.

Population: Census Bureau estimate for July 1, 2025. Major felonies: the seven offenses NYPD tracks in CompStat.

Is the Bronx dangerous? The record from 1990 to 2026

NYPD's CompStat reports count 653 murders in the Bronx in 1990; the complaint data has 101 in 2025, down 85%. Major felonies went from 79,825 to 30,522 (down 62%).

Felony assault fell least. NYPD counted 9,538 in 1990 and the complaint data has 8,949 in 2025, 6% fewer. 1,483 of 2025's were strangulation, which New York made a felony on November 11, 2010; without them, 2025 had 7,466, 22% below 1990.

Sources: 1990, 1993, 1998, NYPD CompStat; 2001, NYPD precinct table; 2025, NYPD complaint data. Counts, not rates. *Rape was redefined more broadly in September 2024 (NYPD). †Includes strangulation from 2010.

The last 20 years, and 2026 so far

The Bronx had 6.9 violent felonies per 1,000 residents in 2008, 6.4 at the low in 2018 and 10.2 in 2025, the highest of the series. NYPD's precinct table agrees back to 2000: 14,094 violent felonies in 2025, more than any year since 2000 (the next highest was 13,902 in 2024).

Felony assault drove the rise: 4,087 complaints in 2008, its lowest year in that table, and 8,949 in 2025 (+119%). Part of that is a change in the law. Strangulation became a felony on November 11, 2010 and NYPD files it as felony assault: 0 complaints in 2008, 1,483 in 2025 (17% of that year's felony assaults). That accounts for 31% of the rise. Nothing in the data explains the other 3,379 complaints (69%); without strangulation, felony assaults rose 83%.

Without strangulation, 2025 was still the highest year since 2006, by a hair: 9.11 per 1,000 against 9.08 in 2024. Rape complaints rose from 445 to 557 in 2025, the first full year under the wider definition; leaving rape out too, 2025 (8.72) was slightly below 2024 (8.77). The estimated population also fell 5% after 2020, which raises any rate.

NYPD complaint data, by date reported. *2024 straddles the September 2024 change in the rape definition.

In January–September 2026, the Bronx recorded 20,783 major felonies, down 12% from the same months of 2025 (23,569); violent felonies were down 6% (11,042 to 10,398) and shooting incidents down 8% (208 to 192). NYPD's preliminary CompStat count through November 8, 2026 shows 87 Bronx murders against 94 a year earlier.

Where in the Bronx: 12 precincts, a 5-fold range

In 2025 the 12 precincts ran from 3.4 violent felonies per 1,000 residents in the 50th Precinct (Riverdale, Kingsbridge, Fieldston) to 17.2 in the 40th Precinct (Mott Haven, Melrose, Port Morris). The two below the citywide 5.4 hold 16% of the borough's residents.

Shootings: incidents in 2025. Major felonies 1990–2025: NYPD CompStat precinct reports, both years; every precinct is down at least 48%.

Safest neighborhoods in the Bronx, by reported crime per resident

Over the 12 months to June 29, 2026, Riverdale had the lowest rate of the 22 Bronx neighborhoods DwellCheck tracks, 31.1 complaints per 1,000 residents, and seven were below the citywide 62.2 on the same basis: Riverdale, Parkchester, Pelham Bay, Co-op City, Throgs Neck, Norwood and Morris Park. The full ranking of every Bronx tabulation area, by complaints within a 300-meter walk, is on safest neighborhoods in the Bronx.

This chart counts all complaints and the precinct chart violent felonies only, so their scales differ. Adjusted neighborhoods show a lower rate here than on their own safety page, which still counts the precinct point.

Is the South Bronx safe?

The South Bronx (community districts 1 to 4; NYPD precincts 40, 41, 42 and 44) has the highest reported violent-crime rates in the borough. In 2025 its four precincts recorded 5,418 violent felonies, 13.6 per 1,000 residents, against 8.2 in the rest of the Bronx and 5.4 citywide; they hold 27% of the borough's residents and 38% of its violent felonies. NYPD counted 259 murders in those precincts in 1990 and 33 in 2025. Violent felonies there rose from 3,415 in 2008 to 5,418 in 2025 (+59%).

The four precincts had 97 shooting incidents in 2025, against 226 in 2021. Their neighborhoods are near the top of the chart above. Definition: our South Bronx page; for daily life there, see living in the South Bronx.

Is Pelham Parkway safe?

Pelham Parkway sits in the middle of the Bronx range. The neighborhood (32,425 residents) had 69.6 NYPD complaints per 1,000 residents in the 12 months to June 29, 2026, 11th lowest of the 22 Bronx neighborhoods DwellCheck tracks and above the citywide 62.2. The 49th Precinct, which covers it, had the 4th lowest violent-felony rate of the 12 Bronx precincts in 2025 (7.4 per 1,000 against 5.4 citywide) and 8 of the borough's 252 shooting incidents.

See Pelham Parkway and its crime data, or neighboring Morris Park.

What kind of crime, and where it happens

Of the 130,360 complaints NYPD recorded in the Bronx in 2025, 30,522 (23%) were major felonies; the rest were lesser felonies, misdemeanors and violations. Among the major felonies, grand larceny was the most common (9,103), then felony assault (8,949). 47% of Bronx major felonies were violent, against 39% citywide.

45% of the borough's violent felonies were recorded inside a residence (an apartment building, a house or public housing), 32% on the street and 1% in the subway.

Is the Bronx safe at night? When violent crime is reported

More violent crime is reported in the Bronx in the afternoon and evening than late at night. Of the 14,299 violent felonies reported in 2025, 42% happened between 1 p.m. and 9 p.m., 34% between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. and 24% between 5 a.m. and 1 p.m. The busiest single hour of the week was Thursday at 3 p.m. (141 over the year) and the quietest Friday at 6 a.m. (23). These are counts of crimes, not odds: the data has no count of how many people are out at each hour.

Summed over the week, the busiest hour (6 p.m.) had 3.3 times as many violent felonies as the quietest (6 a.m.). Sunday had the most and Tuesday the fewest.

Shootings in the Bronx, 2006 to 2026

NYPD recorded 252 shooting incidents in the Bronx in 2025, with 314 people shot, 58 of them killed. That is down 50% from 508 in 2021, the highest year in the series. The Bronx has 16% of the city's residents and had 37% of its shooting incidents in 2025: 0.18 per 1,000 residents against 0.08 citywide.

In 2025, 37% of the borough's incidents were in three precincts: the 43rd (Parkchester, Castle Hill, Soundview; 32), the 47th (Eastchester, Woodlawn, Wakefield; 32) and the 42nd (Morrisania, Claremont, Crotona Park East; 30). The fewest were in the 50th (Riverdale, Kingsbridge, Fieldston; 7), the 49th (Morris Park, Pelham Parkway, Allerton; 8) and the 45th (Pelham Bay, Co-op City, Throgs Neck; 11).

Can tourists go to the Bronx? Yankee Stadium, the zoo, the Botanical Garden, Arthur Avenue and City Island

Yes. Each card gives the place's precinct, that precinct's 2025 violent-felony rate and what NYPD recorded at or around the place in 2025. In the Bronx subway, NYPD recorded 6,313 complaints of all kinds in 2025, 311 of them major felonies and 172 violent felonies (1.2% of the borough's violent felonies).

• Yankee Stadium

  44th Precinct: 10.2 violent felonies per 1,000 residents, 6th lowest of 12

  2025: 1,330 complaints within 400 m; 441 in the subway or on buses; 134 robberies, felony assaults or murders

• Bronx Zoo

  52nd Precinct: 10.3 violent felonies per 1,000 residents, 6th highest of 12

  2025: 39 complaints tagged to Bronx Park (zoo and garden together); 16 robberies

• New York Botanical Garden

  52nd Precinct: 10.3 violent felonies per 1,000 residents, 6th highest of 12

  2025: Same park as the Bronx Zoo; counted together

• Arthur Avenue

  48th Precinct: 13.9 violent felonies per 1,000 residents, 3rd highest of 12

  2025: 1,387 complaints within 400 m of the Arthur Avenue Retail Market; 623 inside residences; 181 robberies, felony assaults or murders

• City Island

  45th Precinct: 4.7 violent felonies per 1,000 residents, 2nd lowest of 12

  2025: 161 complaints on the whole island; 80 inside residences; 17 robberies, felony assaults or murders

Place counts leave out rape and other sex-crime complaints, which NYPD publishes at one point per precinct.

Yankee Stadium

Yankee Stadium is in the 44th Precinct. In 2025 NYPD recorded 1,330 complaints within 400 meters of the stadium, an area that also holds the 161 St.-Yankee Stadium subway station and apartment buildings: 441 were logged in the subway or on buses, 321 inside residences and 427 on the street. The largest category was "other offenses related to theft" (267), 258 of them coded "theft of services". There were 65 robberies and 69 felony assaults, about 2.6 a week between them, and no murders.

The counts do not separate game days and are not a rate: the data has no count of how many people pass through. The 44th Precinct also covers Highbridge, Concourse and Mount Eden.

The Bronx Zoo and the New York Botanical Garden

Both sit inside Bronx Park, in the 52nd Precinct by both the city's boundary map and NYPD's precinct page. In 2025 NYPD tagged 39 complaints to Bronx Park: 16 robberies, 6 misdemeanor assaults and 6 petit larcenies among them. The park name covers the public parkland around the two institutions as well as their grounds, and the data does not say which side of a fence an incident was on.

Arthur Avenue

Arthur Avenue is in Belmont, in the 48th Precinct, whose NYPD page says that "the famous Arthur Avenue runs down the center". Within 400 meters of the Arthur Avenue Retail Market NYPD recorded 1,387 complaints in 2025: 623 (45%) inside residences and 488 on the street. There were 61 robberies and 117 felony assaults.

City Island

City Island is in the 45th Precinct, which also covers Pelham Bay, Co-op City and Throgs Neck. The island itself (2,141 homes in the city's tax-lot file) had 161 complaints of every kind in 2025, including 2 robberies, 15 felony assaults and 9 car thefts.

What this data cannot tell you

• Reported is not actual. Every figure here is a crime reported to or recorded by NYPD. Crimes nobody reports are missing, and reporting rates differ by offense and by neighborhood.
• A rate per resident is not your personal risk. Crimes are counted where they occur, whoever is involved, so areas that draw workers and visitors (Hunts Point's food market, the blocks around Yankee Stadium) show more reported crime per resident than residents alone would generate.
• Definitions change. Felony assault includes strangulation from 2010 and rape widened in September 2024, so long comparisons of those two offenses are not like for like.

Method and sources

• Counts, 2006–2026: NYPD Complaint Data Historic (qgea-i56i) and Current (5uac-w243), by year reported and precinct of occurrence. Violent felonies = murder, rape, robbery, felony assault; major felonies add burglary, grand larceny and car theft.
• Earlier years: 1990, 1993 and 1998 from NYPD CompStat, Bronx North + Bronx South (week ending November 8, 2026); 2000–2005 from NYPD's table by precinct, precincts 40–52 summed. Each year comes from one source only.
• Strangulation: felony-assault complaints described "STRANGULATION", from the same file. Strangulation in the second and first degree became felonies under New York Penal Law 121.12 and 121.13 on November 11, 2010.
• Rape definition: NYPD's November 9, 2026 press release dates the wider legal definition (the Rape is Rape Act) to September 2024.
• Shootings: 5ucz-vwe8, incidents by year of occurrence. Population: boroughs, Census counts (2010, 2020) and July 1 estimates for other years; precincts and neighborhoods, 2020 Census.
• Neighborhoods: complaints inside each neighborhood's 2020 tabulation areas, the 12 months to June 29, 2026, from its safety file, minus the rape and sex-crime complaints NYPD placed at a precinct point inside it (Throgs Neck 123, Norwood 246, Morris Park 179, Soundview 190, Kingsbridge 112, Mount Eden 438, Mott Haven 257 and Hunts Point 229; all 2,451 Bronx ones sit at those 12 points), against the citywide rate minus all 10,851 such complaints.
• Places: neighborhood-to-precinct by homes in the tax-lot file (PLUTO); visitor sites' precincts from the Facilities Database, checked against the precinct boundaries; site counts within 400 meters, tagged Bronx Park, or inside City Island's census tract (516.01).

CompStat, precinct pages and site counts pulled November 12, 2026. Page updated November 13, 2026.

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