8. Kirkland

Kirkland is a small town located in Oneida County, which is not far from Utica, New York. With a small population of about 10,000 residents, this is one of the best and safest places to live in New York.

With lots of restaurants on Main Street, you can try out regional dishes, which include sausage rolls, fried meatballs, tomato pizza pie, and a mildly spicy pasta dish called chicken riggies.

Here in Kirkland, locals enjoy a dense suburban vibe, and most of them own their houses. The small town boasts a property crime rate of just 0.5 and an impressive violent crime rate of 0.