Crime & Safety
MAP: How Crime-Ridden Is Your Brooklyn Neighborhood?
A comprehensive ranking based on fresh NYPD data.

Map created by Ben Wellington. For an interactive version, click here.
People of New York City, rejoice. Ben Wellington — statistician, wizard, municipal treasure — has had his way with the NYPD’s unprecented public dump of incident-level crime data last week.
In a new post on his blog, I Quant NY — using police data from the first three quarters of 2015 and the city’s neighborhood census lines — Wellington has conveniently mapped and ranked NYC crime levels by neighborhood, as opposed to NYPD precinct, as they’ve always been mapped before.
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The rankings, according to Wellington, account for population density and give equal weight to each of six felony categories: robbery, murder, grand larceny auto, grand larceny of motor vehicle, burglary and assault.
For an extensive — and interactive! — ranking of NYC’s 188 neighborhoods, see Willington’s full post.
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And for Brooklyn’s inner-borough rankings, see below. Neighborhoods are listed from most crime-ridden to least. Patch neighborhoods are in bold.
1. Ocean Hill (east end of Bed-Stuy/Crown Heights)
2. East New York
3. East New York (west end)
4. North Crown Heights
5. DUMBO/Vinegar Hill/Downtown Brooklyn/Boerum Hill
6. Stuyvesant Heights
7. Williamsburg
8. South Bushwick
9. Brownsville
10. East Williamsburg
11. Fort Greene
12. Cypress Hills/City Line
13. Clinton Hill
14. Erasmus (east side of Flatbush)
15. Seagate/Coney Island
16. Bedford
17. Prospect-Lefferts Gardens
18. North Bushwick
19. Rugby/Remsen Village (between East Flatbush and Brownsville)
20. Prospect Heights
21. Gravesend
22. Carnarsie
23. South Crown Heights
24. Flatlands
25. Carroll Gardens/Columbia Waterfront/Red Hook
26. Park Slope/Gowanus
27. Greenpoint
28. Ditmas Park/Flatbush
29. East Flatbush
30. West Brighton
31. Sheepshead Bay/Gerritsen Beach/Manhattan Beach
32. West Sunset Park
33. Homecrest (between Midwood and Gravesend)
34. East Sunset Park
35. Starrett City
36. Brooklyn Heights/Cobble Hill
37. East Bensonhurst
38. Bay Ridge
39. Madison (between Midwood and Sheepshead Bay)
40. Kensington
41. Brighton Beach
42. Bath Beach
43. Midwood
44. Windsor Terrace
45. Dyker Heights
46. Borough Park
47. South Ocean Parkway (west side of Midwood)
48. West Bensonhurst
49. Georgetown/Marine Park/Bergen Beach/Mill Basin
50. Orthodox Jewish Williamsburg
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