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Safety in Buffalo

Buffalo ranks #98 of 134 US cities for staying safe, with a safety score of 27 — Quiet. That puts it in the 28th percentile nationally and #2 of 2 in New York.

safety score
27
Quiet
National rank
#98 of 134
In New York
#2 of 2
Percentile
28th

The typical city scores 50 for staying safe; Buffalo sits 23 points below the median.

How safety is measured

Reported violent and property crime rates.

The safety score is the flip side of our crime measure — 100 minus the raw crime score — so a city with less of it scores higher.

Data sources: FBI Crime Data Explorer and city open-data crime portals.

Full methodology → Glossary The raw measurement is part of the Data plan →

Ranked around Buffalo

  1. T#95 Washington, DC 29
  2. #97 Atlanta, GA 28
  3. #98 Buffalo, NY — this page 27
  4. T#99 Tulsa, OK 26
  5. T#99 Wilmington, DE 26

See the full leaderboard — The safest cities in America →

Top US cities for staying safe

  1. #1 Jackson, WY 100
  2. #2 Gilbert, AZ 99
  3. T#3 Boise, ID 98
  4. T#3 Santa Clarita, CA 98
  5. #5 Irvine, CA 97

More about Buffalo

Buffalo scores 77 overall (Very Fun) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: