The city saw a 5.6% drop in overall crime last month, driven in part by a decline in murders and burglaries, newly released crime statistics show.

The NYPD logged 31 homicides in September, down 27.9% from the 43 recorded in September of last year, the department said in a news release.

Burglaries were down 27%, from 1,447 in September 2022 to 1,057 last month; robberies were down 7.3%, from 1,530 to 1,419; grand larcenies were down 9.4%, from 4,588 to 4,155; and reported rapes were down 16.7%, from 144 to 120, the NYPD said.

Shooting incidents, meanwhile, dropped by 34.2% year-over-year last month, from 117 to 77, the department said.

“And the success is not only limited to certain areas of our city either,” NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban said at a news briefing. “In the third quarter of this year, shootings have fallen in every New York City borough.”

The city did record a 19.5% jump in grand larcenies auto year-over-year last month — from 1,204 to 1,439 — as well as a 4.5% increase in felony assaults, from 2,251 to 2,353, the NYPD’s statistics show.

But crime in transit dropped by 12.5%, from 200 reported incidents in September 2022 to 175 last month, the department said.

The number of reported hate crimes also declined by 14% year-over-year last month, from 50 to 43.

And police officers made 2.5% more major crime category arrests last month than they did in September 2022, the NYPD said — and took about 550 illegal guns off the streets.

“None of this happens by accident,” Caban said at the briefing. “These public safety gains are a direct result of relentless, intelligence-driven work by your NYPD officers.”