New York City recorded significant shifts in crime throughout 2022, with monthly totals fluctuating across all seven major crime categories. This page presents NYPD's citywide crime statistics for each month of 2022, offering a closer look at how murder, robbery, burglary, and other index crimes changed over the course of the year. Explore the table below to see monthly patterns, and use the interactive features to dig deeper into specific data points.
| Month | Murder
Murder: the willful killing of one human being by another.
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Rape
Rape: penetration, no matter how slight, without the consent of the victim.
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Robbery
Robbery: taking or attempting to take property from a person by force, threat, or violence.
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Felony Assault | Burglary | Grand Larceny | Grand Larceny Auto | Total |
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| January | 28 | 128 | 1,251 | 1,736 | 1,189 | 4,047 | 1,187 | 9,566 |
| February | 36 | 140 | 1,290 | 1,725 | 1,224 | 3,815 | 1,074 | 9,304 |
| March | 32 | 134 | 1,267 | 1,992 | 1,326 | 4,078 | 1,044 | 9,873 |
| April | 31 | 109 | 1,261 | 2,044 | 1,209 | 3,867 | 942 | 9,463 |
| May | 48 | 157 | 1,520 | 2,384 | 1,278 | 4,183 | 1,033 | 10,603 |
| June | 26 | 140 | 1,548 | 2,471 | 1,279 | 4,467 | 1,142 | 11,073 |
| July | 51 | 150 | 1,752 | 2,631 | 1,360 | 4,634 | 1,260 | 11,838 |
| August | 27 | 144 | 1,630 | 2,303 | 1,356 | 4,687 | 1,210 | 11,357 |
| September | 43 | 144 | 1,530 | 2,251 | 1,447 | 4,588 | 1,204 | 11,207 |
| October | 29 | 139 | 1,478 | 2,088 | 1,388 | 4,564 | 1,244 | 10,930 |
| November | 30 | 110 | 1,491 | 2,016 | 1,231 | 4,187 | 1,131 | 10,196 |
| December | 34 | 108 | 1,280 | 1,977 | 1,236 | 4,210 | 1,319 | 10,164 |
How to use this page
Hover over any row in the table above to highlight it, and click a Month cell to generate a plain-language summary below. Click on header for definition.
Glossary
- Index Crime
- A category of serious crimes (including murder, rape, robbery, felony assault, burglary, and larceny) that the NYPD and FBI track together as a standard measure of overall crime trends.
- Felony Assault
- A serious physical attack that causes significant injury or involves a weapon, distinguished from misdemeanor assault by the severity of harm or intent involved.
- Grand Larceny Auto
- The theft of a motor vehicle, tracked as its own category separate from other forms of grand larceny (theft of property).