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Washington County: adult DWI arrest data

Washington County (Capital Region) had 159 arrests of adults for fingerprintable DWI offenses in 2025, as the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services counts them. In 2025 it was tied for 47th of the 62 New York counties by count and made up 0.6% of the state’s 28,628 adult DWI arrests. This page has the county’s counts year by year, and sets them beside the other seven counties of the Capital Region.

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Washington County adult DWI arrests by year

Year by year, as the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services counts them.

The count was highest in 2015 (252 adult DWI arrests) and lowest in 2022 (100); 2025 is 36.9% below the 2015 figure. That is up 24.2% from 128 in 2024. Of the 159 arrests in 2025, 20 (12.6%) were felonies and 139 misdemeanors.

Counted by the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services · 2015–2025

159 adult DWI arrests in 2025

−36.9% from 252 in 2015, the highest year in 2015–2025

Source: New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services, as of Oct 20, 2026. Arrests of people 18 or older for DWI (felony and misdemeanor), by county, from the Division of Criminal Justice Services table 'Adult Arrests 18 and Older by County: Beginning 1970'. The Division counts arrests for fingerprintable offenses only. Population: U.S. Census Bureau, county population estimates, Vintage 2025 (July 1, 2025), all residents and residents 18 or older.

  • Counts are arrests, not people, and only people 18 or older. Because the table counts adults only, a rate per 100,000 should divide by the number of residents 18 or older, not by all residents.
  • Fingerprintable offenses only, by the Division's definition: a lesser impaired-driving charge that is only a traffic infraction is not in the table, so this is narrower than every impaired-driving arrest.
  • County is where the arrest was recorded, not where the person lives.
  • The five New York City counties together had 3,386 DWI arrests in 2025; the New York City Police Department's own arrests for intoxicated and impaired driving are within 1.3% to 2.5% of the Division's count in every year 2019 to 2025.
  • The table does not say whether the latest year can still change.
  • Population is the Census Bureau's estimate for July 1, 2025 (county population estimates, Vintage 2025), not a Division number. The same figure is used for every year, so a rate for an earlier year is only approximate, and the further back, the less so.
The numbers, year by year
Adult DWI arrests in Washington County by year, and the felony and misdemeanor arrests they are made of
YearAdult DWI arrestsFelonyMisdemeanor
201525240212
201622322201
201724748199
201825247205
201917933146
202015722135
202113318115
20221002179
202313618118
202412817111
202515920139

Washington County among every New York countyAll New York counties by year

Counts are arrests of people 18 or older for fingerprintable DWI offenses as the Division of Criminal Justice Services counts them: arrests, not people, and a lesser impaired-driving charge that is only a traffic infraction is not among them. They are not a measure of how much impaired driving there is: enforcement effort shapes them. A county is where the arrest was recorded, not where the person lives, so a county’s count says more about where police stop drivers than about who lives there, and no county gets a rate.

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Capital Region, county by county

The State of New York groups its 62 counties into ten regions, each with a Regional Economic Development Council. The Capital Region is Albany, Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Warren and Washington counties.
Capital Region: adult DWI arrests by county in 2025 and 2015, the change between, and each county’s share of the Capital Region
County20252015Change since 2015Share of the Capital Region
Saratoga County842832+1.2%26.7%
Albany County8381,334−37.2%26.6%
Rensselaer County315520−39.4%10%
Greene County298356−16.3%9.5%
Columbia County248191+29.8%7.9%
Schenectady County241323−25.4%7.6%
Warren County212313−32.3%6.7%
Washington County this page159252−36.9%5%
All eight counties3,1534,121−23.5%100%

Together the eight counties were 11% of the state’s 28,628 adult DWI arrests in 2025. Counts are where the arrest was recorded, not where the person lives, and they are counts, not rates: the table does not adjust for how many people live in each county. The regions are the State of New York’s own: Regional Economic Development Councils: the ten regions (2024 guidebook, page 4).

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Data note: The counts are arrests of adults for fingerprintable DWI offenses as the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services counts them, with the caveats listed under the figure. This page is general information for data analysis, not legal advice. See the Disclaimer.