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New Hampshire Cities With The Highest Violent-Crime Pressure

Decision-support ranking comparing New Hampshire 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
25
Supported New Hampshire 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 Farmington
Violent Crime has declined 13% since 2021.
3.5 / 1k
2 Manchester
Violent Crime has declined 31% since 2021.
3.5 / 1k
3 Somersworth
Violent Crime has declined 3% since 2021.
3.1 / 1k
4 Laconia
Violent Crime has declined 7% since 2021.
2.7 / 1k
5 Claremont
Violent Crime has declined 21% since 2022.
2.7 / 1k
6 Keene
Violent Crime has increased 19% since 2021.
2.5 / 1k
7 Concord
Violent Crime has declined 12% since 2021.
2.3 / 1k
8 Lebanon
Violent Crime has declined 19% since 2021.
2.2 / 1k
9 Derry
Violent Crime has increased 24% since 2021.
2.1 / 1k
10 Portsmouth
Violent Crime has declined 29% since 2021.
2.0 / 1k
11 Nashua
Violent Crime has declined 10% since 2021.
1.8 / 1k
12 Salem
Violent Crime has increased 45% since 2021.
1.6 / 1k
13 Hampton
Violent Crime has declined 46% since 2021.
1.5 / 1k
14 Hudson
Violent Crime has declined 12% since 2021.
1.4 / 1k
15 Rochester
Violent Crime has declined 38% since 2021.
1.3 / 1k
16 Exeter
Violent Crime has declined 50% since 2021.
1.1 / 1k
17 Newmarket
Violent Crime has declined 31% since 2021.
1.1 / 1k
18 Hooksett
Violent Crime has declined 44% since 2021.
0.9 / 1k
19 Dover
Violent Crime moved up by 0.2 / 1k from 0.6 / 1k in 2021 to 0.8 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage.
0.8 / 1k
20 Boscawen
Violent Crime does not yet have a long enough history to describe a full trend.
0.7 / 1k
21 Goffstown
Violent Crime has declined 67% since 2021.
0.6 / 1k
22 Milford
Violent Crime has declined 54% since 2021.
0.6 / 1k
23 Sunapee
Violent Crime has declined 57% since 2021.
0.6 / 1k
24 Bedford
Violent Crime moved down by 0.6 / 1k from 0.9 / 1k in 2021 to 0.3 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage.
0.3 / 1k
25 Merrimack
Violent Crime moved down by 0.4 / 1k from 0.4 / 1k in 2021 to 0.0 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage.
0.0 / 1k
Research notes

How to read this ranking

Research note

What this ranking means

This page is useful for a current statewide pressure screen. It compares supported New Hampshire 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.