Decision-support ranking comparing Vermont 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.
Ranked rows are precomputed and served as static HTML from R2.
| # | Place | Metric | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barre Violent Crime has declined 13% since 2021. |
6.0 / 1k | → |
| 2 | Brattleboro Violent Crime has increased 94% since 2021. |
6.0 / 1k | → |
| 3 | Burlington Violent Crime has increased 24% since 2021. |
4.2 / 1k | → |
| 4 | Bennington Violent Crime has increased 80% since 2021. |
3.6 / 1k | → |
| 5 | Winooski Violent Crime has declined 3% since 2021. |
3.5 / 1k | → |
| 6 | Hartford Violent Crime has declined 23% since 2021. |
3.1 / 1k | → |
| 7 | South Burlington Violent Crime has increased 5% since 2021. |
2.2 / 1k | → |
| 8 | Colchester Violent Crime has increased 25% since 2021. |
2.0 / 1k | → |
| 9 | Essex Violent Crime has declined 35% since 2021. |
1.1 / 1k | → |
| 10 | Williston Violent Crime moved up by 0.4 / 1k from 0.7 / 1k in 2021 to 1.1 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage. |
1.1 / 1k | → |
This page is useful for a current statewide pressure screen. It compares supported Vermont 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.
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.