West Haven, CT has a A safety grade (79/100) with a violent crime rate of 104 per 100,000, 70% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
West Haven, CT Crime Rate & Safety
At 54,598 residents, West Haven 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 Haven, CT is safer than most U.S. cities, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 70% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, West Haven, CT shows violent crime at 104.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,238.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 70% 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
104.4/100K violent
1238.1/100K property
-70% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for West Haven, CT
Comparable rate records
West Haven's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Connecticut cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to West Haven's 104.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Trumbull (104.0), Bloomfield (108.9), East Haven (98.4), Groton Town (93.1). 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
West Haven reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Connecticut cities
At 104.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, West Haven ranks 20 of 94 — above 74 of the 93 other Connecticut cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +79.6% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 150.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 104.4 in 2024 (-30.6%). The highest observed value was 206.5 in 2021 and the lowest 93.1 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 67.8% of reported property offenses in West Haven, against a cohort median of 76.5%. The remainder is burglary (67) and motor vehicle theft (151). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 7.8% of the 733 Part I offenses reported in West Haven for 2024, against a median of 4.7% across comparable Connecticut cities — a gap of 3.1 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.
Property counts dominate West Haven'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 Haven's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 10.8 Census sq mi, West Haven logged 62.9 property and 5.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
West Haven's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (62% of 733 offenses; mix index 4,434).
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (10.8 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-28.1%
1721.1 → 1238.1/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+12.1%
93.1 → 104.4/100K
Property offenses lead West Haven's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
676
1238.1
1711
Larceny-Theft
458
838.9
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
151
276.6
-
Burglary
67
122.7
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
57
104.4
352
Aggravated Assault
25
45.8
-
Robbery
22
40.3
-
Rape
8
14.7
-
Murder
2
3.7
-
West Haven Crime Trend (2020-2024)
West Haven 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 Haven Police Department
Reporting agency for West Haven NIBRS-participating
West Haven Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind West Haven's 733 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 Haven in population. Their populations run from 48,331 to 61,895, against 54,598 here. Or use our
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West Haven at 104.4/100K violent and 1,238.1/100K property - matched below outside Connecticut (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, West Haven reported 57 violent crimes and 676 property crimes, for a total of 733 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in West Haven?
From 2023 to 2024, West Haven's violent crime rate increased by 12.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 28.1%.
What is the most common crime in West Haven?
The most common crime type in West Haven is larceny-theft, accounting for 62.5% of all reported crimes (458 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: West Haven'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 Haven, CT rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.