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New York Queens North West

14 neighborhoods - a quarterly race to the lowest crime rate.

Crime Trends: Neighborhoods compared - each quarter from Q1 2022

New York as a whole averaged 16.5 crimes for every 1,000 residents per quarter in Q2 2026, while northwest Queens averaged 14.2 (leaving out 6 places with almost no residents), hence it is generally safer when all crimes are considered.

How do the 14 neighborhoods of northwest Queens compare? In Q2 2026 the police recorded 8,919 crimes across them, 14.2 for every 1,000 residents. That is 2.1% below a year earlier and 12.3% above Q1 2022, the first quarter we track.

Woodside has the lowest rate of the everyday neighborhoods (9.5 per 1,000), followed by Astoria (Central) (10.5) and Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway (11.3). Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills has the highest (28.9).

Use the RACE CHARTS below to watch all 14 NEW YORK QUEENS NORTH WEST NEIGHBORHOODs race across 18 quarter periods from Q1 2022 to Q2 2026 - one crime category at a time or all together. The race chart can be used to compare average crime rates by category against New York's average.

Neighborhood boundaries are defined by NYC Department of City Planning, 2020 Neighborhood Tabulation Areas.
Lowest rate (everyday)
lowest rateWoodside
9.5 crimes per 1,000 residents, Q2 2026
Highest rate
upQueensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills
28.9 per 1,000, Q2 2026
Whole area, Q2 2026
14.2 per 1,000
down 2.1% below a year earlier · up 12.3% above Q1 2022
Compared
14 neighborhoods
630,097 residents · 18 quarters

New York Queens North West neighborhood quarterly crime race

Press ▶︎ to watch Q1 2022 to Q2 2026. Tick one crime category or several; hover a bar for the neighborhood. Property crimes includes burglaries and thefts.

Crime categories
Indicated: crimes rate per 1000 residents per quarterAll · safest at the top · square-root scale · Q1 2022 to Q2 202601510255010010.6Astoria (Central)15.1Astoria (East)-Woodside (North)9.8Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway10.3Corona11.3East Elmhurst12.7Elmhurst12.5Jackson Heights13.1Long Island City-Hunters Point12.2North Corona13.3Old Astoria-Hallets Point28.3Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills11.2Sunnyside145Sunnyside Yards (North)10.1WoodsideNew York Q2 2026 average all crimes (16.5)Numbers are crimes per 1,000 residents per quarter. Zero-crime quarters show 0 and rank safest. Not included, no residents: Astoria Park; Calvary & Mount Zion Cemeteries; Flushing Meadows-Corona Park; LaGuardia Airport; St. Michael's Cemetery; SunnysideYards (South).
Astoria Houses NYCHA, Old Astoria-Hallets Point You checked the neighborhood.Now check an address ! Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

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69st Flushing IRT Platform, Woodside
Woodside · 69st Flushing IRT Platform
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
30th Avenue BMT Station, Astoria (Central)
Astoria (Central) · 30th Avenue BMT Station
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Astoria Energy, Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway
Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway · Astoria Energy
Photo: Jim.henderson, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
40th Street Lowery Street Station 046, Sunnyside
Sunnyside · 40th Street Lowery Street Station 046
Photo: Kidfly182, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
35th Avenue Scrabble Street Sign, Jackson Heights
Jackson Heights · 35th Avenue Scrabble Street Sign
Photo: Clark Gregor from St. Louis Park, MN, United States, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
34th Avenue 99 St School, North Corona
North Corona · 34th Avenue 99 St School
Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
3.7.20MidtownAstoriaByLuigiNovi1, Astoria (East)-Woodside (North)
Astoria (East)-Woodside (North) · 3.7.20MidtownAstoriaByLuigiNovi1
Photo: Luigi Novi, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
BPOE 878 Elmhurst, Elmhurst
Elmhurst · BPOE 878 Elmhurst
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

How neighborhoods moved each quarter

2022

Whole-area crime rate 12.6 to 14.7 per 1,000 (high: Q3 2022).

Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): moved down Woodside 2nd→6th (Q2) moved down North Corona 4th→11th (Q4)

2023

Whole-area crime rate 13.8 to 15.7 per 1,000 (high: Q4 2023).

Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): moved up Long Island City-Hunters Point 12th→5th (Q1) moved down Old Astoria-Hallets Point 7th→11th (Q1) moved down Long Island City-Hunters Point 5th→12th (Q2) moved up Old Astoria-Hallets Point 11th→7th (Q4) moved down East Elmhurst 6th→10th (Q4)

2024

Whole-area crime rate 14.9 to 16.9 per 1,000 (high: Q3 2024).

No neighborhood moved more than three places in a quarter.

2025

Whole-area crime rate 13.7 to 14.7 per 1,000 (high: Q3 2025).

Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): moved down Astoria (East)-Woodside (North) 6th→10th (Q1) moved up Astoria (East)-Woodside (North) 10th→6th (Q2)

2026

Whole-area crime rate 13.0 to 14.2 per 1,000 (high: Q2 2026). 2 quarters so far.

Big moves (4+ places in a quarter): moved up East Elmhurst 9th→5th (Q1)

Reported Safety Incidents

In Q2 2026: public order incidents were 40% (3,580), property incidents were 23% (2,019), violent incidents were 20% (1,792) and vehicle crimes were 12% (1,027).

Recorded crime here is grouped into violent crime, property crime (burglary and theft), vehicle crime and public order offences, so you can compare how safe each neighborhood is for the kind of crime that matters to you.

Read category comparisons with care. A category that jumps while the total hardly moves looks like a change in how offences are classified, not in what happened: Q3 2023: vehicle up 26% while the total moved 6%; Q1 2026: violent down 38% while the total moved 8%; Q2 2026: vehicle up 31% while the total moved 9%. The whole-area rate is the steadier guide.

Places we left out, and places to read with care

Left out: Astoria Park; Calvary & Mount Zion Cemeteries; Flushing Meadows-Corona Park; LaGuardia Airport; St. Michael's Cemetery; Sunnyside Yards (South). They have almost no residents: their crimes are against visitors, so a rate per resident says little about living there.

Sunnyside Yards (North) is a rail yard with only a few hundred residents (87.2 per 1,000 from 30 crimes among 344 residents), so it is not named as the lowest or highest.

The 14 neighborhoods on the map

Queens North West is made of 14 neighborhoods compared here, each in its own colour on the map. They are the City Planning “Neighborhood Tabulation Areas”: 630,097 residents between them.

  • Astoria (Central)
  • Astoria (East)-Woodside (North)
  • Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway
  • Corona
  • East Elmhurst
  • Elmhurst
  • Jackson Heights
  • Long Island City-Hunters Point
  • North Corona
  • Old Astoria-Hallets Point
  • Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills
  • Sunnyside
  • Sunnyside Yards (North)
  • Woodside

All 14 neighborhoods, Q2 2026

Crimes per 1,000 residents, Q2 2026, lowest first. The last two columns compare with Q1 2022.
#NeighborhoodResidentsAllViolentPropertyVehiclePublic orderRate vs Q1 2022Places gained
1Woodside46,9479.51.82.41.33.3down6%up1
2Astoria (Central)48,04410.52.52.51.13.9down1%up2
3Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway48,62011.31.52.51.55.3up15%down2
4Corona67,34111.33.22.51.43.8up10%down1
5Sunnyside46,87912.82.43.11.15.5up14%–
6East Elmhurst29,09313.32.33.22.25.2up18%–
7Jackson Heights93,97513.62.83.02.05.2up9%up1
8North Corona38,52114.54.62.72.53.8up19%down1
9Astoria (East)-Woodside (North)36,80514.52.12.71.96.8down3%up3
10Elmhurst100,01515.22.73.31.46.7up19%down1
11Old Astoria-Hallets Point13,99816.54.22.41.57.6up24%–
12Long Island City-Hunters Point30,46422.24.06.81.58.9up69%down2
13Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills29,05128.94.97.02.312.8up2%–
14Sunnyside Yards (North) †34487.217.414.523.332.0down40%–

† Sunnyside Yards (North) is a rail yard with only a few hundred residents. A rate on a very small number of residents or crimes is not comparable with the others.

Photographs

54 photographs of the 14 neighborhoods run along the reel; click one to see it full size. Each is credited here and under the large view.

All 54 photographs and their credits
  1. Woodside · 69st Flushing IRT Platform (IRT = Interborough Rapid Transit, a New York City subway division). Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
  2. Astoria (Central) · 30th Avenue BMT Station (BMT = Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit, a New York City subway division). Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
  3. Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway · Astoria Energy. Photo: Jim.henderson, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
  4. Sunnyside · 40th Street Lowery Street Station 046. Photo: Kidfly182, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
  5. Jackson Heights · 35th Avenue Scrabble Street Sign. Photo: Clark Gregor from St. Louis Park, MN, United States, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
  6. North Corona · 34th Avenue 99 St School. Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
  7. Astoria (East)-Woodside (North) · 3.7.20MidtownAstoriaByLuigiNovi1. Photo: Luigi Novi, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
  8. Elmhurst · BPOE 878 Elmhurst. Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
  9. Old Astoria-Hallets Point · Astoria Pablo UMC. Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
  10. Long Island City-Hunters Point · 21 St Ind Stair 2008. Photo: Jim.henderson at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
  11. Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills · Astoria, Queens, NY, USA. Photo: kajikawa, CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
  12. Sunnyside Yards (North) · AHRC Cyril Weinberg LIC. Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
  13. Astoria Park · Astoria Park Sign, Queens New York. Photo: Kenneth C. Zirkel, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
  14. Flushing Meadows-Corona Park · "We're Lonely" .... Photo: Jim Griffin, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
  15. LaGuardia Airport · Air Canada Express (Jazz) Embraer E175SU Landing at Laguardia Airport. Photo: Glenn Beltz, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
  16. St. Michael's Cemetery · 1 Bulova Avenue. Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
  17. Woodside · 69 Fisk IRT Station (IRT = Interborough Rapid Transit, a New York City subway division). Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
  18. Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway · Astoria-Ditmars Boulevard Station August 2025 2. Photo: 4300streetcar, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
  19. Sunnyside · 40th Street Lowery Street Station 045. Photo: Kidfly182, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
  20. Jackson Heights · 34th Avenue Open Streets, Jackson Heights, Queens, NYC, June 2026. Photo: CastIronSeasoner, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
  21. North Corona · Armstrong Museum 34-56 107 St Corona. Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
  22. Astoria (East)-Woodside (North) · 3.7.20MidtownAstoriaByLuigiNovi2. Photo: Luigi Novi, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
  23. Elmhurst · 82 Street. Photo: Doug Letterman from Berkeley, CA, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
  24. Old Astoria-Hallets Point · Astoria USPS 11102. Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
  25. Long Island City-Hunters Point · 21st Street IND Crosstown Line Station, December 2025 (IND = Independent Subway System, a New York City subway division). Photo: IliketrainsR211T, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
  26. Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills · 36th Avenue BMT Astoria (BMT = Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit, a New York City subway division). Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
  27. Astoria Park · Astoria Park. Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
  28. Flushing Meadows-Corona Park · 2013 US Open - Granstand Court. Photo: Daniel from Glasgow, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
  29. LaGuardia Airport · Air Canada A220-371, C-GNBE, MSN 55111 (03 2021), as AC 729 New York (LGA) - Montréal (YUL), Flight Time 0 54 (530249723. Photo: Charles from Port Chester, New York, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
  30. Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway · Acela on Hell Gate Bridge Approach August 2025. Photo: 4300streetcar, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
  31. Sunnyside · 40th Street Lowery Street Station 047. Photo: Kidfly182, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
  32. Astoria (East)-Woodside (North) · Al-Iman Mosque Steinway St. Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
  33. Old Astoria-Hallets Point · Astoria Houses NYCHA. Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
  34. Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills · 39th Avenue Astoria BMT (BMT = Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit, a New York City subway division). Photo: Jim.henderson (talk), Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
  35. Astoria Park · GCP Astoria Boulevard 31st St BMT (BMT = Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit, a New York City subway division). Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
  36. Flushing Meadows-Corona Park · Arthur Ashe Stadium. Photo: Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
  37. LaGuardia Airport · East Elmhurst, Queens, NY, USA. Photo: Eric Friedebach, CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
  38. Sunnyside · 7 Train Approaching 40th Street Lowery June 2026. Photo: 4300streetcar, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
  39. Old Astoria-Hallets Point · Bel Aire Diner II. Photo: Eden, Janine and Jim from New York City, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
  40. Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills · 21StR160F. Photo: AZacharyZ, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
  41. Astoria Park · Astoria Pool. Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
  42. LaGuardia Airport · An American 737 Departs LaGuardia for Orlando. Photo: Glenn Beltz from Goleta, CA, USA, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
  43. Sunnyside · 7 Train Approaching 40th Street Lowery June 2026 (Cropped). Photo: 4300streetcar, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
  44. Astoria Park · Astoria Park, Queens. Photo: Rsmn, CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
  45. LaGuardia Airport · American Airlines A319-112, N771XF, MSN 1980 (05 2003), as AA 2270 New York (LGA) - St Louis (STL), Flight Time 2 05 (53. Photo: Charles from Port Chester, New York, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
  46. Sunnyside · 7 Train Approaching 40th Street Lowery June 2026 2. Photo: 4300streetcar, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
  47. Astoria Park · 24th Avenue in Astoria, Queens. Photo: Fletcher, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
  48. Sunnyside · 7 Train Approaching 40th Street Lowery June 2026 3. Photo: 4300streetcar, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
  49. Sunnyside · 7 Train Approaching 40th Street Lowery June 2026 2 (Cropped). Photo: 4300streetcar, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
  50. Sunnyside · 33rd Street Rawson View 055. Photo: Kidfly182, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
  51. Sunnyside · 33rd Street Rawson View 056. Photo: Kidfly182, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
  52. Sunnyside · 33rd Street Rawson View 058. Photo: Kidfly182, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
  53. Sunnyside · 33rd Street Rawson View 059. Photo: Kidfly182, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
  54. Sunnyside · 33rd Street Rawson View 060. Photo: Kidfly182, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Sources and notes

CrimesLog sources crime incident data published by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) through the NYC Open Data Portal, containing public sector information governed by the NYC Open Data Law (Local Law 11 of 2012) and the NYC.gov Terms of Use.

Population: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (public domain).

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Neighborhood boundaries are defined by NYC Department of City Planning, 2020 Neighborhood Tabulation Areas (NYC Open Data), merged and simplified by CrimesLog. The photographs are credited under each picture.

Rates are recorded crimes per 1,000 residents, quarter by quarter; where a neighborhood has fewer than 100 residents the rate would be worked out on 100 (those places are left out of the race). A count of recorded crime is not a verdict on any neighborhood.

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