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Connecticut Cities With The Highest Violent-Crime Pressure

Decision-support ranking comparing Connecticut cities by current violent crime per 1,000 using the currently published coarse crime context, then routing readers into each city brief for tract context and caveats.

Cities ranked
59
Supported Connecticut cities with tract-backed crime context.
Leaderboard

Current order from the latest data

Ranked rows are precomputed and served as static HTML from R2.

#PlaceMetric
1 New Haven
Violent Crime has declined 16% since 2021.
5.7 / 1k
2 Hartford
Violent Crime has increased 10% since 2021.
5.4 / 1k
3 Bridgeport
Violent Crime has declined 25% since 2021.
4.2 / 1k
4 New Britain
Violent Crime has declined 11% since 2021.
3.9 / 1k
5 Hamden
Violent Crime has declined 5% since 2021.
3.5 / 1k
6 Waterbury
Violent Crime has declined 5% since 2021.
3.5 / 1k
7 Norwich
Violent Crime has declined 24% since 2021.
2.9 / 1k
8 Danbury
Violent Crime has increased 108% since 2021.
2.7 / 1k
9 Groton
Violent Crime has declined 23% since 2021.
2.4 / 1k
10 Derby
Violent Crime has declined 42% since 2021.
2.2 / 1k
11 New London
Violent Crime has declined 43% since 2021.
2.0 / 1k
12 Enfield
Violent Crime has increased 13% since 2021.
1.7 / 1k
13 Stamford
Violent Crime has declined 27% since 2021.
1.6 / 1k
14 Willimantic
Violent Crime has increased 33% since 2021.
1.6 / 1k
15 Manchester
Violent Crime has declined 17% since 2021.
1.5 / 1k
16 Meriden
Violent Crime has declined 64% since 2021.
1.4 / 1k
17 Milford
Violent Crime has increased 8% since 2021.
1.3 / 1k
18 East Hartford
Violent Crime has declined 39% since 2021.
1.1 / 1k
19 Trumbull
Violent Crime has been relatively flat over the tracked period.
1.1 / 1k
20 Cromwell
Violent Crime moved up by 0.3 / 1k from 0.7 / 1k in 2021 to 1.0 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage.
1.0 / 1k
21 East Haven
Violent Crime has declined 38% since 2021.
1.0 / 1k
22 Torrington
Violent Crime has been relatively flat over the tracked period.
1.0 / 1k
23 West Haven
Violent Crime has declined 50% since 2021.
1.0 / 1k
24 Norwalk
Violent Crime moved up by 0.2 / 1k from 0.7 / 1k in 2021 to 0.9 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage.
0.9 / 1k
25 Bloomfield
Violent Crime has declined 50% since 2021.
0.9 / 1k
Research notes

How to read this ranking

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What this ranking means

This page is useful for a current statewide pressure screen. It compares supported Connecticut cities by aggregate violent-crime rate before you open the deeper city briefs. Outside Colorado, this remains statewide fallback context rather than local incident-feed depth.

Research note

What this ranking can miss

A current city rate does not tell you whether conditions are improving, how concentrated the pressure is, or which neighborhoods are driving it. Open the city brief and neighborhood pages next.