New Canaan, CT has a A+ safety grade (92/100) with a violent crime rate of 10 per 100,000, 97% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
New Canaan (20,973 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then CT and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
New Canaan, CT carries a PlainCrime A+ safety grade with violent crime 97% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, New Canaan, CT shows violent crime at 9.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 777.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 97% below the U.S. average. 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
New Canaan reported 2 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 20,973. 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 9.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, New Canaan ranks 87 of 94 — above 7 of the 93 other Connecticut cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -83.6% against the cohort median of 58.2. 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 Canaan's 9.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Bethel (9.6), East Lyme (10.5), Plymouth (8.5), Woodbridge (11.1). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 65.6% of reported property offenses in New Canaan, against a cohort median of 76.5%. The remainder is burglary (16) and motor vehicle theft (40). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 1.2% of the 165 Part I offenses reported in New Canaan for 2024, against a median of 4.7% across comparable Connecticut cities — a gap of 3.5 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 9.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 9.5 in 2024 (-3.3%). The highest observed value was 14.9 in 2021 and the lowest 4.8 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate New Canaan'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 2 reported violent incidents in a population of 20,973. 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 22.2 Census sq mi, New Canaan logged 7.3 property and 0.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
New Canaan's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (65% of 165 offenses; mix index 4,888).
Violent offenses are only 1% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
New Canaan offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (22.2 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 163 | 777.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 107 | 510.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 40 | 190.7 |
| Burglary | 16 | 76.3 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 2 | 9.5 |
| Rape | 1 | 4.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 1 | 4.8 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 20,281 | 9.9 | 675.5 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 20,147 | 14.9 | 804.1 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 20,924 | 4.8 | 822 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 20,897 | 9.6 | 636.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 20,973 | 9.5 | 777.2 |
New Canaan Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind New Canaan's 165 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 Canaan in population. Their populations run from 19,913 to 22,337, against 20,973 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
New Canaan sits at 9.5/100K violent (grade A+); the Connecticut cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
New Canaan at 9.5/100K violent and 777.2/100K property - matched below outside Connecticut (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
9.5/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
777.2/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, New Canaan reported 2 violent crimes and 163 property crimes, for a total of 165 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, New Canaan's violent crime rate decreased by 1%, and the property crime rate increased by 22.1%.
The most common crime type in New Canaan is larceny-theft, accounting for 64.8% of all reported crimes (107 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: New Canaan 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 New Canaan's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 New Canaan, CT rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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