The city recorded a drop in murders and shootings year-over-year last month, but its overall crime index remained stagnant, NYPD statistics released Thursday show.

The NYPD logged 31 homicides in March, down 11.4% from the 35 it logged in March 2022, newly released data shows. Shooting incidents were down 26.1% year-over-year, from 115 in March 2022 to 85 last month, the department said.

The change in the city’s overall crime index, however, was “virtually flat” between March of last year and March of this year, ticking up by 0.1%, the agency said in a press release.

While the city saw a 0.8% drop in the number of reported rapes, a 1.4% decline in robberies and a 12.5% decrease in burglaries year-over-year last month, felony assaults and grand larcenies ticked up by 1.9% and 0.4%, respectively, and grand larcenies auto jumped by 14.3%.

At a news briefing Thursday afternoon, NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell acknowledged the lack of change in overall crime year-over-year, but emphasized the drop in murders and shootings.

“We’re dramatically at a different place than we were last year. Even though that number is static, where we were last year, at the end of 2021, before this administration came in, we were fighting the number of high shootings, homicides,” Sewell said.

“And now we’ve kind of significantly changed that dynamic, where we’re at a point where we’re fighting a number of property crimes,” she said. “So we made a commitment to address gun violence, address illegal firearm possession and we did that.”

All seven major felony crime categories — including homicides and felony assaults — saw increases between February’s 28 days and March’s 31, NYPD data shows.

Thirty-one murders were reported last month compared to 26 in February, and 130 rapes were reported last month compared to 109 in February, according to the data.

The city also saw 1,253 robberies in March, up from 1,155 in February; 2,102 felony assaults, up from 1,808; 1,185 burglaries, up from 1,040; 4,129 grand larcenies, up from 3,539; and 1,178 grand larcenies auto, up from 1,108, the statistics show.

Year-over-year, the city recorded 13.9% and 11.3% increases in transit and housing crimes, respectively, in March, the NYPD said.

Hate crimes, meanwhile, fell by 11% overall year-over-year last month, according to the department.

And in the first three months of the year, the city did see a drop in reported murders, rapes, robberies burglaries and grand larcenies compared to last year, Sewell noted.

"While we are encouraged that five of the seven index crime categories decreased in the first quarter, felony assaults and grand larceny autos remain persistent issues," she said in a statement. "The NYPD will continue to address these conditions while also remaining focused on further driving down violence."