Stratford, CT has a A safety grade (76/100) with a violent crime rate of 67 per 100,000, 81% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Stratford, CT Crime Rate & Safety
At 52,531 residents, Stratford 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.
Stratford, CT carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 81% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Stratford, CT shows violent crime at 66.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,985.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 81% 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.
A safety grade
66.6/100K violent
1985.5/100K property
-81% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Stratford, CT
Comparable rate records
Stratford's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Connecticut cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Stratford's 66.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Southington (66.1), Ansonia (68.2), Stonington (65.0), Winchester (68.3). 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 104.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 66.6 in 2024 (-36.0%). The highest observed value was 152.9 in 2021 and the lowest 66.6 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Stratford sits mid-pack among comparable Connecticut cities
At 66.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Stratford ranks 39 of 94 — above 55 of the 93 other Connecticut cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +14.6% 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.
Property counts dominate Stratford'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.
Stratford's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 17.5 Census sq mi, Stratford logged 59.7 property and 2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Stratford's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (76% of 1,078 offenses; mix index 6,050).
Violent offenses are only 3% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (17.5 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
-44.4%
119.8 → 66.6/100K
Property Crime Rate
+2.3%
1941.2 → 1985.5/100K
Property offenses lead Stratford's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs CT
Property Crime
1,043
1985.5
1396.7
Larceny-Theft
821
1562.9
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
155
295.1
-
Burglary
67
127.5
-
Arson
4
7.6
-
Violent Crime
35
66.6
139
Robbery
15
28.6
-
Aggravated Assault
13
24.7
-
Rape
7
13.3
-
Murder
0
0
-
Stratford Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Stratford property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Stratford Police Department
Reporting agency for Stratford NIBRS-participating
Stratford Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Stratford's 1,078 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 Connecticut
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In 2024, Stratford reported 35 violent crimes and 1,043 property crimes, for a total of 1,078 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Stratford?
From 2023 to 2024, Stratford's violent crime rate decreased by 44.4%, and the property crime rate increased by 2.3%.
What is the most common crime in Stratford?
The most common crime type in Stratford is larceny-theft, accounting for 76.2% of all reported crimes (821 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Stratford'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 Stratford, CT rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.