Hanover, NH has a A+ safety grade (96/100) with a violent crime rate of 0 per 100,000, .
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Hanover (12,421 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then NH and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Hanover, NH FBI UCR crime rates and PlainCrime safety grade
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Hanover, NH shows violent crime at 0 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 450.8 per 100,000. 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
Hanover reported 0 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 12,421. 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 52.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024 (-100.0%). The highest observed value was 84.9 in 2022 and the lowest 0.0 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
At 0.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Hanover ranks 134 of 186 — above 0 of the 185 other New Hampshire cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -100.0% against the cohort median of 40.3. 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 Hanover's 0.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Bath (0.0), Bethlehem (0.0), Bradford (0.0), Candia (0.0). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 0.0% of the 56 Part I offenses reported in Hanover for 2024, against a median of 7.3% across comparable New Hampshire cities — a gap of 7.3 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 Hanover'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 0 reported violent incidents in a population of 12,421. 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 4.5 Census sq mi, Hanover logged 12.4 property and 0 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Hanover's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (93% of 56 offenses; mix index 8,651).
Violent offenses are only 0% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Hanover offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4.5 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 | 56 | 450.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 52 | 418.6 |
| Burglary | 2 | 16.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 2 | 16.1 |
| Arson | 1 | 8.1 |
| Violent Crime | 0 | 0 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
| Aggravated Assault | 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 | 11,498 | 52.2 | 521.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 11,586 | 17.3 | 586.9 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 11,778 | 84.9 | 517.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 9,682 | 31 | 743.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 12,421 | 0 | 450.8 |
Hanover Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Hanover's 56 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 New Hampshire cities closest to Hanover in population. Their populations run from 9,625 to 14,718, against 12,421 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Hanover sits at 0/100K violent (grade A+); the New Hampshire cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Hanover reported 0 violent crimes and 56 property crimes, for a total of 56 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Hanover's violent crime rate decreased by 100%, and the property crime rate decreased by 39.4%.
The most common crime type in Hanover is larceny-theft, accounting for 92.9% of all reported crimes (52 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Hanover 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 Hanover's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Hanover, NH rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Hanover is scored in the mid-size municipal band (12,421 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.