New Hampshire's comparable FBI window (2014–2024, 11 years) shows declines on both major offense rates — charts below keep the larger |endpoint| move first.
Declining-window verdict
New Hampshire's violent crime rate fell 40.5% from 2014 to 2024; its property crime rate fell 50.4%. The endpoints agree on the broad direction, but the intervening years still matter.
Full-window endpoints
Violent crime moved from 188.1 to 111.9 per 100,000 (-40.5%). Property crime moved from 1872.0 to 927.6 (-50.4%). These are endpoint comparisons, not proof that every intervening year followed the same direction.
Latest national comparison
For 2024, the state rate was 111.9 per 100,000 versus 352.0 across the state records in this dataset, a gap of 68.2% below. This is a state-level benchmark, not a neighborhood-safety conclusion.
Peak and trough
The highest observed violent-crime rate was 194.6 in 2017; the lowest was 111.9 in 2024. The latest value lies 0% of the way from that low to that peak, which shows whether the endpoint is close to an extreme or near the middle of the observed range.
Recent direction check
From 2021 to 2024, the violent-crime rate fell 13.7%, compared with -40.5% across the full 2014-2024 window. That difference is why the latest few observations should be read separately from the decade-scale endpoints.
Year-to-year movement
The largest annual change ran from 2018 to 2019: -12.5%. Across the full sequence, 3 year-to-year steps rose by more than 1% and 7 fell by more than 1%. A single sharp step can reflect participation or reporting changes as well as a real change in recorded offenses.
Rate denominator
The reported population changed from 1,326,813 to 1,409,032 (+6.2%). Rates account for that denominator change; raw offense counts do not. This is one reason a count and a per-100,000 rate can move by different percentages over the same years.
New Hampshire's property rate fell 13.2% (-224.0 per 100K) from 2015 to 2016 (1692.4 → 1468.4) — the sharpest comparable year-to-year step in this window.
New Hampshire's property gap vs the US aggregate moved from 25.7% below in 2014 to 45.8% below in 2024 (-20.0 pp).
| Year | Coverage | Population | Property | Rate | YoY | Violent | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Comparable | 1,409,032 | 13,070 | 927.6 | ↑ 1.1% | 1,577 | 111.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 1,402,054 | 12,864 | 917.5 | ↓ 12.0% | 1,635 | 116.6 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 1,395,231 | 14,551 | 1042.9 | ↑ 0.2% | 1,856 | 133 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 1,388,992 | 14,462 | 1041.2 | ↓ 3.8% | 1,802 | 129.7 |
| 2020 | Comparable | 1,366,275 | 14,790 | 1082.5 | ↓ 8.3% | 1,944 | 142.3 |
| 2019 | Comparable | 1,359,711 | 16,053 | 1180.6 | ↓ 4.7% | 2,067 | 152 |
| 2018 | Comparable | 1,356,458 | 16,809 | 1239.2 | ↓ 8.6% | 2,356 | 173.7 |
| 2017 | Comparable | 1,342,795 | 18,197 | 1355.2 | ↓ 7.7% | 2,613 | 194.6 |
| 2016 | Comparable | 1,334,795 | 19,600 | 1468.4 | ↓ 13.2% | 2,562 | 191.9 |
| 2015 | Comparable | 1,330,608 | 22,519 | 1692.4 | ↓ 9.6% | 2,582 | 194 |
| 2014 | Comparable | 1,326,813 | 24,838 | 1872 | - | 2,496 | 188.1 |
More in New Hampshire: overview, safest cities, most dangerous, compare. Methodology — FBI UCR / Crime Data Explorer rates per 100,000 for New Hampshire (2014–2024); Census population where FBI denominators are missing.