East Lyme, CT has a A+ safety grade (95/100) with a violent crime rate of 11 per 100,000, 97% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
East Lyme (19,094 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then CT and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
East Lyme, CT carries a PlainCrime A+ safety grade with violent crime 97% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, East Lyme, CT shows violent crime at 10.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 413.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 97% 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.
Small-count caution
East Lyme reported 2 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 19,094. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 87.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 10.5 in 2024 (-88.0%). The highest observed value was 87.0 in 2020 and the lowest 10.5 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
At 10.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, East Lyme ranks 85 of 94 — above 9 of the 93 other Connecticut cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -82.0% against the cohort median of 58.2. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to East Lyme's 10.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Woodbridge (11.1), Bethel (9.6), New Canaan (9.5), Redding (11.5). 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.
Property counts dominate East Lyme'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.
Based on 2 reported violent incidents in a population of 19,094. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 34 Census sq mi, East Lyme logged 2.3 property and 0.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
East Lyme's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (77% of 81 offenses; mix index 6,084).
Violent offenses are only 2% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
East Lyme offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (34 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 79 | 413.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 62 | 324.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 9 | 47.1 |
| Burglary | 8 | 41.9 |
| Arson | 1 | 5.2 |
| Violent Crime | 2 | 10.5 |
| Murder | 1 | 5.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 1 | 5.2 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 18,391 | 87 | 565.5 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 18,467 | 32.5 | 417 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 18,984 | 52.7 | 368.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 18,952 | 36.9 | 575.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 19,094 | 10.5 | 413.7 |
East Lyme Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind East Lyme's 81 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Connecticut cities closest to East Lyme in population. Their populations run from 17,730 to 19,913, against 19,094 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
East Lyme sits at 10.5/100K violent (grade A+); the Connecticut cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
East Lyme at 10.5/100K violent and 413.7/100K property - matched below outside Connecticut (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
10.5/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
413.7/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, East Lyme reported 2 violent crimes and 79 property crimes, for a total of 81 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, East Lyme's violent crime rate decreased by 71.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 28.1%.
The most common crime type in East Lyme is larceny-theft, accounting for 76.5% of all reported crimes (62 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: East Lyme figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Mid-size rate methodology for how East Lyme's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 East Lyme, CT rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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