Jaffrey, NH has a B safety grade (68/100) with a violent crime rate of 234 per 100,000, 34% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Jaffrey is a small municipal reporter (5,562 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with NH and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Jaffrey, NH carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 34% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Jaffrey, NH shows violent crime at 233.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 988.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 34% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Jaffrey reported 13 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 5,562. 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 233.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Jaffrey ranks 6 of 186 — above 180 of the 185 other New Hampshire cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +482.6% against the cohort median of 40.1. 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 Jaffrey's 233.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Chichester (213.8), Andover (205.0), Conway (201.1), Swanzey (200.6). 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 19.1% of the 68 Part I offenses reported in Jaffrey for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Hampshire cities — a gap of 12.0 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 190.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 233.7 in 2024 (+22.9%). The highest observed value was 327.6 in 2022 and the lowest 144.1 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 74.5% of reported property offenses in Jaffrey, against a cohort median of 85.4%. The remainder is burglary (12) and motor vehicle theft (2). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Jaffrey'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 13 reported violent incidents in a population of 5,562. 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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 3.4 Census sq mi, Jaffrey logged 16.2 property and 3.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Jaffrey's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (60% of 68 offenses; mix index 4,115).
Violent offenses are 19% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Jaffrey offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3.4 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 | 55 | 988.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 41 | 737.1 |
| Burglary | 12 | 215.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 2 | 36 |
| Arson | 1 | 18 |
| Violent Crime | 13 | 233.7 |
| Rape | 6 | 107.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 6 | 107.9 |
| Robbery | 1 | 18 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 5,258 | 190.2 | 456.4 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 5,271 | 151.8 | 398.4 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 5,495 | 327.6 | 455 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 5,552 | 144.1 | 270.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 5,562 | 233.7 | 988.9 |
Jaffrey Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Jaffrey's 68 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 Jaffrey in population. Their populations run from 5,314 to 5,998, against 5,562 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Jaffrey sits at 233.7/100K violent (grade B); the New Hampshire cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Jaffrey reported 13 violent crimes and 55 property crimes, for a total of 68 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Jaffrey's violent crime rate increased by 62.2%, and the property crime rate increased by 266%.
The most common crime type in Jaffrey is larceny-theft, accounting for 60.3% of all reported crimes (41 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Jaffrey is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Jaffrey's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Jaffrey, NH rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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