East Hartford, CT has a A safety grade (77/100) with a violent crime rate of 89 per 100,000, 75% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
East Hartford, CT Crime Rate & Safety
At 50,584 residents, East Hartford is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against CT and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
East Hartford, CT carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 75% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, East Hartford, CT shows violent crime at 89 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,670.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 75% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
A safety grade
89/100K violent
1670.5/100K property
-75% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for East Hartford, CT
Comparable rate records
East Hartford's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Connecticut cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to East Hartford's 89.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Windsor Locks (87.9), Berlin (92.6), Norwalk (85.0), Groton Town (93.1). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 160.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 89.0 in 2024 (-44.7%). The highest observed value was 185.8 in 2022 and the lowest 89.0 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
East Hartford sits mid-pack among comparable Connecticut cities
At 89.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, East Hartford ranks 25 of 94 — above 69 of the 93 other Connecticut cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +53.0% against the cohort median of 58.1. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property counts dominate East Hartford's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
East Hartford's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 18 Census sq mi, East Hartford logged 46.9 property and 2.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
East Hartford's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (68% of 890 offenses; mix index 5,062).
Violent offenses are only 5% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (18 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-39.9%
148.1 → 89/100K
Property Crime Rate
-26.7%
2277.5 → 1670.5/100K
Property offenses lead East Hartford's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs CT
Property Crime
845
1670.5
1396.7
Larceny-Theft
604
1194.1
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
177
349.9
-
Burglary
64
126.5
-
Arson
1
2
-
Violent Crime
45
89
139
Aggravated Assault
21
41.5
-
Robbery
15
29.7
-
Rape
6
11.9
-
Murder
3
5.9
-
East Hartford Crime Trend (2020-2024)
East Hartford property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
East Hartford Police Department
Reporting agency for East Hartford NIBRS-participating
East Hartford Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind East Hartford's 890 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Similar-Size Cities in Connecticut
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Connecticut cities closest to East Hartford in population. Their populations run from 42,616 to 59,378, against 50,584 here. Or use our
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East Hartford at 89/100K violent and 1,670.5/100K property - matched below outside Connecticut (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, East Hartford reported 45 violent crimes and 845 property crimes, for a total of 890 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in East Hartford?
From 2023 to 2024, East Hartford's violent crime rate decreased by 39.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 26.7%.
What is the most common crime in East Hartford?
The most common crime type in East Hartford is larceny-theft, accounting for 67.9% of all reported crimes (604 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: East Hartford's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 East Hartford, CT rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.