Across the board, New York’s levels of concern don’t match up with the reality of crime in the Empire State. Both violent and property crime rates in New York are lower than national rates.

New York has a violent crime rate of 3.5, compared to 3.7 nationwide, and the property crime rate is 14.4, compared to 22.0 across the country.

Despite the lower violent crime rate, New Yorkers reported a slightly higher rate of personal experience with violent crime—13% versus the national average of 12%. But they do better when it comes to property crime, coming in twelve points below the national average of 26%.