Manchester, NH has a C safety grade (52/100) with a violent crime rate of 336 per 100,000, 5% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Manchester, NH Crime Rate & Safety
At 115,464 residents, Manchester is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against NH and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Manchester, NH carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 5% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Manchester, NH shows violent crime at 336 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,648.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 5% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
336/100K violent
1648.1/100K property
-5% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Manchester, NH
Position in the state cohort
Manchester reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable New Hampshire cities
At 336.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Manchester ranks 4 of 186 — above 182 of the 185 other New Hampshire cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +737.6% 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
Manchester's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the New Hampshire cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Manchester's 336.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Washington (330.9), Newport (372.3), Jaffrey (233.7), Winchester (443.4). 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 604.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 336.0 in 2024 (-44.4%). The highest observed value was 604.3 in 2020 and the lowest 336.0 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 16.9% of the 2,291 Part I offenses reported in Manchester for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Hampshire cities — a gap of 9.8 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.
Share of the state cohort
Manchester carries a large share of the reporting cohort’s total offenses
The 2,291 Part I offenses reported here are 16.4% of the 13,968 reported across all 186 comparable New Hampshire cities in 2024. A city this large moves the statewide municipal total on its own, so state-level changes should be read against its population of 115,464 rather than as a uniform shift.
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 33.1 Census sq mi, Manchester logged 57.5 property and 11.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Manchester's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (71% of 2,291 offenses; mix index 5,235).
Violent offenses are 17% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (33.1 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-13.6%
388.8 → 336/100K
Property Crime Rate
-4.6%
1727.5 → 1648.1/100K
Property offenses lead Manchester's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs NH
Property Crime
1,903
1648.1
927.6
Larceny-Theft
1,622
1404.8
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
174
150.7
-
Burglary
107
92.7
-
Arson
12
10.4
-
Violent Crime
388
336
111.9
Aggravated Assault
259
224.3
-
Robbery
67
58
-
Rape
60
52
-
Murder
2
1.7
-
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 2,291 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 New Hampshire
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the New Hampshire cities closest to Manchester in population. Their populations run from 26,974 to 90,938, against 115,464 here. Or use our
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Manchester at 336/100K violent and 1,648.1/100K property - matched below outside New Hampshire (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Manchester reported 388 violent crimes and 1,903 property crimes, for a total of 2,291 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Manchester?
From 2023 to 2024, Manchester's violent crime rate decreased by 13.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 4.6%.
What is the most common crime in Manchester?
The most common crime type in Manchester is larceny-theft, accounting for 70.8% of all reported crimes (1,622 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, NH rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.