Newport, VT has a F safety grade (20/100) with a violent crime rate of 628 per 100,000, 78% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Newport is a small municipal reporter (4,300 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with VT and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Newport, VT carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 78% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Newport, VT shows violent crime at 627.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,046.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 78% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 627.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Newport ranks 4 of 53 — above 49 of the 52 other Vermont cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +334.1% against the cohort median of 144.7. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Small-count caution
Newport reported 27 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 4,300. 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Newport's 627.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Brattleboro (645.1), Barre (646.1), Lyndonville (490.6), Burlington (479.1). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 23.5% of the 115 Part I offenses reported in Newport for 2024, against a median of 11.9% across comparable Vermont cities — a gap of 11.6 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 757.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 627.9 in 2024 (-17.2%). The highest observed value was 902.3 in 2022 and the lowest 524.9 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Newport'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 27 reported violent incidents in a population of 4,300. 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 5.9 Census sq mi, Newport logged 15 property and 4.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Newport's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (69% of 115 offenses; mix index 5,058).
Violent offenses are 23% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Newport offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (5.9 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 | 88 | 2046.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 79 | 1837.2 |
| Burglary | 7 | 162.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 2 | 46.5 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 27 | 627.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 19 | 441.9 |
| Robbery | 5 | 116.3 |
| Rape | 3 | 69.8 |
| Murder | 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 | 4,222 | 757.9 | 1373.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 4,181 | 550.1 | 1674.2 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 4,433 | 902.3 | 2436.3 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 4,382 | 524.9 | 1962.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 4,300 | 627.9 | 2046.5 |
Newport Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Newport's 115 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 Vermont cities closest to Newport in population. Their populations run from 3,763 to 4,875, against 4,300 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Newport sits at 627.9/100K violent (grade F); the Vermont cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Newport reported 27 violent crimes and 88 property crimes, for a total of 115 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Newport's violent crime rate increased by 19.6%, and the property crime rate increased by 4.3%.
The most common crime type in Newport is larceny-theft, accounting for 68.7% of all reported crimes (79 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Newport 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 Newport's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Newport, VT rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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