Fairfield, CT has a A safety grade (85/100) with a violent crime rate of 23 per 100,000, 93% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 64,098 residents, Fairfield 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.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Fairfield, CT carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 93% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Fairfield, CT shows violent crime at 23.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,410.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 93% 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
Fairfield reported 15 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 64,098. 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Fairfield's 23.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are East Hampton (22.9), Ridgefield (24.1), Montville (22.6), Wolcott (24.4). 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
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 40.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 23.4 in 2024 (-41.7%). The highest observed value was 56.0 in 2021 and the lowest 23.4 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 23.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Fairfield ranks 69 of 94 — above 25 of the 93 other Connecticut cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -59.8% 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 86.7% of reported property offenses in Fairfield, against a cohort median of 76.3%. The remainder is burglary (36) and motor vehicle theft (84). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 1.6% of the 919 Part I offenses reported in Fairfield for 2024, against a median of 4.7% across comparable Connecticut cities — a gap of 3.1 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Property counts dominate Fairfield'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 15 reported violent incidents in a population of 64,098. 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.
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.
Across 29.9 Census sq mi, Fairfield logged 30.2 property and 0.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Fairfield's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (85% of 919 offenses; mix index 7,378).
Violent offenses are only 2% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Fairfield offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (29.9 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 | 904 | 1410.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 784 | 1223.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 84 | 131 |
| Burglary | 36 | 56.2 |
| Arson | 1 | 1.6 |
| Violent Crime | 15 | 23.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 9 | 14 |
| Robbery | 5 | 7.8 |
| Rape | 1 | 1.6 |
| Murder | 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 | 62,311 | 40.1 | 1903.4 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 62,473 | 56 | 1640.7 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 62,270 | 38.5 | 1763.3 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 63,588 | 29.9 | 1767.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 64,098 | 23.4 | 1410.3 |
Fairfield Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Fairfield's 919 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 Fairfield in population. Their populations run from 54,598 to 74,528, against 64,098 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Fairfield sits at 23.4/100K violent (grade A); the Connecticut cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Fairfield at 23.4/100K violent and 1,410.3/100K property - matched below outside Connecticut (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
23.4/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,410.3/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Fairfield reported 15 violent crimes and 904 property crimes, for a total of 919 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Fairfield's violent crime rate decreased by 21.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 20.2%.
The most common crime type in Fairfield is larceny-theft, accounting for 85.3% of all reported crimes (784 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Fairfield'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.
Large-city rate methodology for how Fairfield's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Fairfield, CT rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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