Swanzey, NH has a A safety grade (76/100) with a violent crime rate of 201 per 100,000, 43% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Swanzey is a small municipal reporter (7,478 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with NH and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Swanzey, NH carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 43% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Swanzey, NH shows violent crime at 200.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 441.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 43% 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.
2021–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 68.7 per 100,000 in 2021 to 200.6 in 2024 (+191.9%). The highest observed value was 266.6 in 2023 and the lowest 68.7 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
Swanzey reported 15 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 7,478. 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 31.3% of the 48 Part I offenses reported in Swanzey for 2024, against a median of 7.1% across comparable New Hampshire cities — a gap of 24.1 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 200.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Swanzey ranks 10 of 186 — above 176 of the 185 other New Hampshire cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +400.0% against the cohort median of 40.1. 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 Swanzey's 200.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Conway (201.1), Andover (205.0), Waterville Valley (192.7), Center Harbor (191.0). 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 75.8% of reported property offenses in Swanzey, against a cohort median of 85.4%. The remainder is burglary (5) and motor vehicle theft (3). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Swanzey'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 15 reported violent incidents in a population of 7,478. 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 45 Census sq mi, Swanzey logged 0.7 property and 0.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Swanzey leans on larceny-theft at 52% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,299.
Violent offenses are 31% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Swanzey offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (45 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 | 33 | 441.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 25 | 334.3 |
| Burglary | 5 | 66.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 3 | 40.1 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 15 | 200.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 8 | 107 |
| Rape | 6 | 80.2 |
| Robbery | 1 | 13.4 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2020 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2021-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Insufficient reporting | 7,219 | - | - |
| 2021 | Comparable | 7,275 | 68.7 | 357.4 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 7,468 | 227.6 | 495.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 7,501 | 266.6 | 399.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 7,478 | 200.6 | 441.3 |
Swanzey Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Swanzey's 48 reported offenses (4-year span 2021-2024).
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 New Hampshire cities closest to Swanzey in population. Their populations run from 6,880 to 7,926, against 7,478 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Swanzey sits at 200.6/100K violent (grade A); the New Hampshire cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Swanzey reported 15 violent crimes and 33 property crimes, for a total of 48 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Swanzey's violent crime rate decreased by 24.8%, and the property crime rate increased by 10.4%.
The most common crime type in Swanzey is larceny-theft, accounting for 52.1% of all reported crimes (25 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Swanzey 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 Swanzey's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Swanzey, NH 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. Swanzey is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (7,478 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.