Vermont's comparable FBI window (2014–2024, 11 years) shows increases on both major offense rates — read the lead series charts before the secondary rate.
Rising-window verdict
Vermont's violent crime rate rose 122.0% from 2014 to 2024; its property crime rate rose 9.7%. The endpoints agree on the broad direction, but the intervening years still matter.
Vermont's violent rate rose 36.6% (+47.0 per 100K) from 2016 to 2017 (128.4 → 175.4) — the sharpest comparable year-to-year step in this window. The largest move the other way was dropped 10.5% from 2019 to 2020 (202.7 → 181.4).
Vermont's violent gap vs the US aggregate moved from 72.1% below in 2014 to 36.0% below in 2024 (+36.1 pp).
Recent direction check
From 2021 to 2024, the violent-crime rate rose 18.7%, compared with +122.0% across the full 2014-2024 window. That difference is why the latest few observations should be read separately from the decade-scale endpoints.
Full-window endpoints
Violent crime moved from 101.5 to 225.3 per 100,000 (+122.0%). Property crime moved from 1518.0 to 1664.8 (+9.7%). These are endpoint comparisons, not proof that every intervening year followed the same direction.
Peak and trough
The highest observed violent-crime rate was 225.3 in 2024; the lowest was 101.5 in 2014. The latest value lies 100% 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.
Latest national comparison
For 2024, the state rate was 225.3 per 100,000 versus 352.0 across the state records in this dataset, a gap of 36.0% below. This is a state-level benchmark, not a neighborhood-safety conclusion.
Year-to-year movement
The largest annual change ran from 2016 to 2017: +36.6%. Across the full sequence, 8 year-to-year steps rose by more than 1% and 2 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 626,562 to 648,493 (+3.5%). 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.
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent | Rate | YoY | Property | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Comparable | 648,493 | 1,461 | 225.3 | ↑ 4.4% | 10,796 | 1664.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 647,464 | 1,397 | 215.8 | ↓ 3.5% | 11,795 | 1821.7 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 647,064 | 1,447 | 223.6 | ↑ 17.8% | 11,056 | 1708.6 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 645,570 | 1,225 | 189.8 | ↑ 4.6% | 9,005 | 1394.9 |
| 2020 | Comparable | 623,347 | 1,131 | 181.4 | ↓ 10.5% | 7,958 | 1276.7 |
| 2019 | Comparable | 623,989 | 1,265 | 202.7 | ↑ 13.2% | 9,017 | 1445.1 |
| 2018 | Comparable | 626,299 | 1,122 | 179.1 | ↑ 2.1% | 8,249 | 1317.1 |
| 2017 | Comparable | 623,657 | 1,094 | 175.4 | ↑ 36.6% | 9,449 | 1515.1 |
| 2016 | Comparable | 624,594 | 802 | 128.4 | ↑ 5.2% | 9,265 | 1483.4 |
| 2015 | Comparable | 626,042 | 764 | 122 | ↑ 20.2% | 9,213 | 1471.6 |
| 2014 | Comparable | 626,562 | 636 | 101.5 | - | 9,511 | 1518 |
More in Vermont: overview, safest cities, most dangerous, compare. Methodology — FBI UCR / Crime Data Explorer rates per 100,000 for Vermont (2014–2024); Census population where FBI denominators are missing.