Moriches has an overall crime rate of 11 per 1,000 residents, making the crime rate here near the average for all cities and towns of all sizes in America. According to our analysis of FBI crime data, your chance of becoming a victim of crime in Moriches is 1 in 95. How does Moriches fare compared to other communities in New York of all population sizes? Moriches's crime rate is lower than approximately 36% of New York communities.

How does the crime rate in Moriches compare to similar sized communities across America? When NeighborhoodScout compared Moriches with other communities its size, we found that the crime rate was near the average for all other communities of similar size. So, whether Moriches's crime rate is high or low compared to all places in the US, when we control for population size and compare it to places that are similar in size, it is near the middle of the pack in crime rate; not much more or less dangerous, and about what we would expect from the statistics.

Now let us turn to take a look at how Moriches does for violent crimes specifically, and then how it does for property crimes. This is important because the overall crime rate can be further illuminated by understanding if violent crime or property crimes (or both) are the major contributors to the general rate of crime in Moriches.

Importantly, our analysis shows that Moriches has one of the lowest violent crime rates in all of America, across cities and towns of all sizes. Murder, rape, armed robbery and aggravated assault happen far less frequently here than in most places. Your chance of becoming a victim? Just one in 10000. Moriches's violent crime rate is just 0 per 1,000 residents.

NeighborhoodScout's analysis also reveals that Moriches's rate for property crime is 11 per one thousand population. This makes Moriches a place where there is an above average chance of becoming a victim of a property crime, when compared to all other communities in America of all population sizes. Property crimes are motor vehicle theft, arson, larceny, and burglary. Your chance of becoming a victim of any of these crimes in Moriches is one in 95.