Great Dane: NYC bite reports per 1,000 licensed dogs of this breed, all years combined

as of 2026-09-20 · license: public-domain

• One city only (NYC); breed labels are self-reported, not verified against a registry or genetic test.
• Licensed-dog counts are active-license snapshots per extract year, not a true owned-dog population.
• 'Unknown'/blank breed accounts for 27% of all NYC bite reports, not attributable to this or any named breed.
• The denominator is active licences, and NYC licence compliance is far from universal, so the absolute rate overstates bites per dog owned; read it against other breeds, not as a probability.
• Relative to all 34 mapped breeds combined: 1.53x.

Source

SwampLink (computed from NYC DOHMH open data) — NYC bite rate per 1,000 licensed dogs, by breed and year
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/
retrieved 2026-09-20

Method

bites / licensed dogs * 1000, summed across all extract years, joined via the committed breed-name map

n = 1003

from: data/nyc-bites.json, data/nyc-licenses.json, scripts/breed_name_map.py

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