Manchester, CT has a B safety grade (68/100) with a violent crime rate of 133 per 100,000, 62% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Manchester, CT Crime Rate & Safety
At 59,378 residents, Manchester 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.
Manchester, CT carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 62% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Manchester, CT shows violent crime at 133 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,115.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 62% 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.
B safety grade
133/100K violent
2115.3/100K property
-62% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Manchester, CT
Comparable rate records
Manchester's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Connecticut cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Manchester's 133.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Meriden (128.5), Putnam (117.7), Milford (116.8), Bloomfield (108.9). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Manchester reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Connecticut cities
At 133.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Manchester ranks 15 of 94 — above 79 of the 93 other Connecticut cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +128.9% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 166.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 133.0 in 2024 (-20.3%). The highest observed value was 166.9 in 2020 and the lowest 122.9 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Manchester'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.
Manchester's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 9.2 Census sq mi, Manchester logged 136 property and 8.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Manchester's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (75% of 1,335 offenses; mix index 5,759).
Violent offenses are only 6% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (9.2 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
+14.5%
1848.2 → 2115.3/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+8.2%
122.9 → 133/100K
Property offenses lead Manchester's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs CT
Property Crime
1,256
2115.3
1396.7
Larceny-Theft
995
1675.7
-
Burglary
136
229
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
125
210.5
-
Arson
3
5.1
-
Violent Crime
79
133
139
Aggravated Assault
35
58.9
-
Rape
25
42.1
-
Robbery
19
32
-
Murder
0
0
-
Manchester Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Manchester 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
Manchester Police Department
Reporting agency for Manchester NIBRS-participating
Manchester Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Manchester's 1,335 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 Manchester in population. Their populations run from 53,065 to 64,098, against 59,378 here. Or use our
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Manchester at 133/100K violent and 2,115.3/100K property - matched below outside Connecticut (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Manchester reported 79 violent crimes and 1,256 property crimes, for a total of 1,335 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Manchester?
From 2023 to 2024, Manchester's violent crime rate increased by 8.2%, and the property crime rate increased by 14.5%.
What is the most common crime in Manchester?
The most common crime type in Manchester is larceny-theft, accounting for 74.5% of all reported crimes (995 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Manchester'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 Manchester, CT rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.