Are you finding it hard to locate that missing package?
A staggering $1.2 billion in deliveries vanished from New York residences due to porch piracy in 2025, positioning the Empire State as the second-highest in the nation for package theft, according to a recent study.
Across the country, an estimated 104.3 million packages left unattended were stolen from homes, apartment complexes, and mailrooms last year. New York accounted for 7,828,212 of these incidents, translating to approximately $1.29 billion in losses, as revealed by the 2025 US Package Theft Report from SafeWise.
New York also led SafeWise’s rankings for household incident rates, with 965 thefts occurring per 1,000 households.
California topped the list as the state with the highest number of package thefts, with thieves making off with $1.54 billion worth of goods in 2025 from 11,824,411 incidents, according to the study.
The Golden State also placed third in terms of household theft rates, with 837 thefts per 1,000 households, following Pennsylvania, which reported 944 thefts per 1,000 households.
Texas ranked third in the study with $1.19 billion in losses and 6,011,349 incidents, followed by Florida with $984 million and 6,417,831 snatchings, while Pennsylvania closed out the top five worst states with $661.9 million in losses and 5,231,008 capers.
Michigan, Ohio, Georgia, Illinois and North Carolina also rounded out the top 10, recording a combined total of more than $2.18 billion in losses across 15,448,384 reported cases.
SafeWise estimated that the staggering number of heists resulted in $14.9 billion in consumer losses and around 90.8 million theft incidents.
The 10 states with the highest estimated value lost to package theft were:
- California: $1,549,821,331 — 11,824,411 incidents
- New York: $1,290,071,402 — 7,828,212 incidents
- Texas: $1,187,166,154 — 6,011,349 incidents
- Florida: $984,168,232 — 6,417,831 incidents
- Pennsylvania: $661,896,167 — 5,231,008 incidents
- Michigan: $480,048,238 — 3,263,077 incidents
- Ohio: $470,278,751 — 3,145,906 incidents
- Georgia: $467,806,503 — 2,870,888 incidents
- Illinois: $401,581,152 — 3,590,650 incidents
- North Carolina: $368,631,412 — 2,577,863 incidents
Shane Margerson, owner of online retailer Ecigone, said digital sellers are also impacted by the eye-watering number of package theft and losses, noting that it triggers replacement requests, delivery disputes and additional customer service work.
“The safest delivery is one that is not left sitting in plain sight,” he said, advising customers to use tracking alerts, collection points, lockers or signed-for delivery when placing an order.
“For online retailers who deliver packages to customers, clear delivery choices matter. If a parcel is valuable, age-restricted or time-sensitive, shoppers should think about where it is going before they click buy,” Margerson continued.
“Sending it to a secure pickup point can be a lot less stressful than hoping it is still on the porch when they get home.”
