West Hartford, CT has a B safety grade (70/100) with a violent crime rate of 64 per 100,000, 82% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
West Hartford, CT Crime Rate & Safety
At 64,093 residents, West Hartford 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.
West Hartford, CT carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 82% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, West Hartford, CT shows violent crime at 64 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,732 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 82% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
B safety grade
64/100K violent
2732/100K property
-82% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for West Hartford, CT
Comparable rate records
West Hartford's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Connecticut cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to West Hartford's 64.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Stonington (65.0), East Windsor (62.6), Middletown (62.1), Southington (66.1). 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 49.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 64.0 in 2024 (+29.8%). The highest observed value was 76.4 in 2021 and the lowest 49.3 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
West Hartford sits mid-pack among comparable Connecticut cities
At 64.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, West Hartford ranks 42 of 94 — above 52 of the 93 other Connecticut cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +10.0% 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 West Hartford'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.
West Hartford's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 21.8 Census sq mi, West Hartford logged 80.2 property and 1.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
West Hartford's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (80% of 1,792 offenses; mix index 6,619).
Violent offenses are only 2% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (21.8 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
+21.2%
52.8 → 64/100K
Property Crime Rate
-11.2%
3078.1 → 2732/100K
Property offenses lead West Hartford's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs CT
Property Crime
1,751
2732
1396.7
Larceny-Theft
1,441
2248.3
-
Burglary
156
243.4
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
154
240.3
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
41
64
139
Robbery
28
43.7
-
Aggravated Assault
10
15.6
-
Rape
3
4.7
-
Murder
0
0
-
West Hartford Crime Trend (2020-2024)
West Hartford property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
West Hartford Police Department
Reporting agency for West Hartford NIBRS-participating
West Hartford Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind West Hartford's 1,792 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
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Connecticut cities closest to West Hartford in population. Their populations run from 54,598 to 74,528, against 64,093 here. Or use our
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West Hartford at 64/100K violent and 2,732/100K property - matched below outside Connecticut (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, West Hartford reported 41 violent crimes and 1,751 property crimes, for a total of 1,792 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in West Hartford?
From 2023 to 2024, West Hartford's violent crime rate increased by 21.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 11.2%.
What is the most common crime in West Hartford?
The most common crime type in West Hartford is larceny-theft, accounting for 80.4% of all reported crimes (1,441 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: West Hartford'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 West Hartford, CT rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.