South Burlington, VT has a C safety grade (47/100) with a violent crime rate of 235 per 100,000, 33% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
South Burlington (21,300 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then VT and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
South Burlington, VT carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 33% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, South Burlington, VT shows violent crime at 234.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 4,385 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 33% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 147.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 234.7 in 2024 (+59.4%). The highest observed value was 290.5 in 2022 and the lowest 147.3 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to South Burlington's 234.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Woodstock (230.3), Thetford (244.6), Brandon (219.5), Wilmington (219.1). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 234.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, South Burlington ranks 16 of 53 — above 37 of the 52 other Vermont cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +62.3% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 5.1% of the 984 Part I offenses reported in South Burlington for 2024, against a median of 12.1% across comparable Vermont cities — a gap of 7.0 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 counts dominate South Burlington'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 16.4 Census sq mi, South Burlington logged 56.8 property and 3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
South Burlington's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (86% of 984 offenses; mix index 7,500).
Violent offenses are only 5% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
South Burlington offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (16.4 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 | 934 | 4385 |
| Larceny-Theft | 848 | 3981.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 72 | 338 |
| Burglary | 14 | 65.7 |
| Arson | 3 | 14.1 |
| Violent Crime | 50 | 234.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 41 | 192.5 |
| Robbery | 6 | 28.2 |
| Rape | 3 | 14.1 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 19,690 | 147.3 | 3087.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 19,748 | 248.1 | 2688.9 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 20,307 | 290.5 | 4171 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 20,794 | 254.9 | 5492 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 21,300 | 234.7 | 4385 |
South Burlington Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind South Burlington's 984 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 South Burlington in population. Their populations run from 10,071 to 22,347, against 21,300 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
South Burlington sits at 234.7/100K violent (grade C); the Vermont cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
South Burlington at 234.7/100K violent and 4,385/100K property - matched below outside Vermont (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
234.7/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
4,385/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, South Burlington reported 50 violent crimes and 934 property crimes, for a total of 984 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, South Burlington's violent crime rate decreased by 7.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 20.2%.
The most common crime type in South Burlington is larceny-theft, accounting for 86.2% of all reported crimes (848 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: South Burlington 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 South Burlington's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 South Burlington, VT rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. South Burlington is scored in the mid-size municipal band (21,300 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.