New York Crime Rate — 2025 in Review
A year of crime trends, summarized.
An annual companion to the monthly briefings: the anomalies that mattered, the structural shifts that emerged, and where the model got it right (or wrong). 12 briefings, condensed.
Seven chapters
The big picture
Citywide totals + monthly volume for 2025.
The five biggest crime stories
Five distinct anomalies that defined the year.
Crime by category
All ten categories, ranked by 2025 totals.
Crime by neighborhood
Neighborhoods sorted by total tracked signals.
Crime forecast scorecard
Month-by-month forecast accuracy against actuals.
Methodology updates
Threshold + bucket changes that landed during the year.
What we'll watch in 2026
Patterns we expect to keep moving.
The big picture
New York closed 2025 with 266,005 bucketed incidents — down 5.5% against 281,468 the year before. 1,500 tracked signals were raised across 12 briefings — 429 spikes, 1058 drops + sustained shifts, and 1 rare-event / streak-break signals.
The monthly volume chart at right shows where the year was busy and where it was quiet, against the prior-year monthly average (dashed line). The categories that moved most are broken out below.
The five biggest crime stories
Five distinct anomalies we'd point a 2025reader to. Recurring (neighborhood, category) stories collapse to one card so the list isn't five copies of the same spike.
Queens CD3 — Jackson Heights / East Elmhurst · Aggravated Assault
The past 12 months saw 576 incidents — about 69% above the 341 average from prior years.
Brooklyn CD2 — Brooklyn Heights / Fort Greene · Aggravated Assault
The past 12 months saw 624 incidents — about 64% above the 380 average from prior years.
Queens CD13 — Queens Village / Cambria Heights · Sexual Assault
The past 12 months saw 332 incidents — about 151% above the 133 average from prior years.
Bronx CD12 — Williamsbridge / Baychester · Sexual Assault
The past 12 months saw 309 incidents — about 75% above the 177 average from prior years.
Bronx CD10 — Throgs Neck / Co-op City · Burglary
The past 12 months saw 196 incidents — about 70% above the 115 average from prior years.
Crime by category
All ten categories, ranked by 2025 total volume.
Crime by neighborhood
12 neighborhoods led the year by total signal count. The note column is the dominant story for that neighborhood — its biggest single signal.
Crime forecast scorecard
Of 120 monthly point-estimate forecasts issued for 2025, 85 (71%) landed inside their 95% prediction intervals. Below: month by month.
Per-bucket coverage, MAPE, and bias details live on the methodology page.
Methodology updates
Logged inline with the code that runs the model.
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10-bucket NIBRS-aligned categories
Replaced an earlier 6-bucket scheme (which collapsed homicide, robbery, aggravated assault, and sexual assault into one “violent” bucket). Each bucket now maps to FBI UCR Part 1 / NIBRS Group A — the cross-city common denominator for adding new cities.
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Sustained-shift Poisson rate-ratio test
Added a Poisson Z-test (|Z|>2.576, ratio differs by ≥25%) for sustained shifts between recent vs prior 12-mo windows — distinct from the spike/drop signals which compare against the multi-year baseline.
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Prophet forecasts with low-count gating
Per-(neighborhood, bucket) forecasts now skip cells averaging <2 incidents/month over the trailing 24 months. Violent-bucket forecasts skip at the neighborhood level and surface via rare-event / streak-break signals instead.
What we'll watch in 2026
3 distinct patterns from 2025we expect to keep moving — drawn from the year's recurring sustained signals, not the single-month spikes already covered above.
- 01
Brooklyn CD14 — Flatbush / Midwood · sexual assault
The past 12 months saw 240 incidents — about 97% above the 122 average from prior years. Surfaced in 9 of 2025's 12 briefings — the persistence is what puts it on the watch list.
- 02
Brooklyn CD9 — South Crown Heights / Lefferts Gardens · aggravated assault
The past 12 months saw 419 incidents — about 34% above the 313 average from prior years. Surfaced in 3 of 2025's 12 briefings — the persistence is what puts it on the watch list.
- 03
Queens CD6 — Forest Hills / Rego Park · aggravated assault
The past 12 months saw 152 incidents — about 115% above the 71 average from prior years. Surfaced in 12 of 2025's 12 briefings — the persistence is what puts it on the watch list.
Cite as: Public Analyst.ai, “New York — 2025in review,” auto-generated annual report. Permanent URL: /new-york/2025/year-in-review.