New Britain, CT has a C safety grade (41/100) with a violent crime rate of 421 per 100,000, 20% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 74,528 residents, New Britain 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
New Britain, CT carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 20% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, New Britain, CT shows violent crime at 421.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,925.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 20% above 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 421.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, New Britain ranks 4 of 94 — above 90 of the 93 other Connecticut cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +624.8% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to New Britain's 421.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Hamden (430.7), Bridgeport (392.9), Hartford (515.8), Waterbury (322.5). 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 18.0% of the 1,749 Part I offenses reported in New Britain for 2024, against a median of 4.7% across comparable Connecticut cities — a gap of 13.3 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 67.9% of reported property offenses in New Britain, against a cohort median of 76.5%. The remainder is burglary (97) and motor vehicle theft (363). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 435.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 421.3 in 2024 (-3.1%). The highest observed value was 506.6 in 2023 and the lowest 373.5 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate New Britain'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.
Across 13.4 Census sq mi, New Britain logged 107.1 property and 23.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
New Britain leans on larceny-theft at 56% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,752.
Violent offenses are 18% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
New Britain offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (13.4 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 | 1,435 | 1925.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 975 | 1308.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 363 | 487.1 |
| Burglary | 97 | 130.2 |
| Arson | 16 | 21.5 |
| Violent Crime | 314 | 421.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 228 | 305.9 |
| Robbery | 49 | 65.7 |
| Rape | 34 | 45.6 |
| Murder | 3 | 4 |
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 | 72,412 | 435 | 2530 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 72,093 | 418.9 | 2706.2 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 73,621 | 373.5 | 2095.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 74,609 | 506.6 | 2316.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 74,528 | 421.3 | 1925.5 |
New Britain Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind New Britain's 1,749 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 New Britain in population. Their populations run from 59,378 to 86,257, against 74,528 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
New Britain sits at 421.3/100K violent (grade C); the Connecticut cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
New Britain at 421.3/100K violent and 1,925.5/100K property - matched below outside Connecticut (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
421.3/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,925.5/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-16.8% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, New Britain reported 314 violent crimes and 1,435 property crimes, for a total of 1,749 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, New Britain's violent crime rate decreased by 16.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 16.9%.
The most common crime type in New Britain is larceny-theft, accounting for 55.7% of all reported crimes (975 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: New Britain'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 New Britain's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 New Britain, CT rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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