CrimeMetric

Crime in Essex Village, Connecticut

Major crime in Essex Village is 81% below the U.S. rate per resident: 88% lower for persons crimes and 79% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 15.4% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
19
81% below the U.S. rate
71% below the Connecticut rate
down 15.4% in a year
Persons crimes
12
88% below the U.S. rate
63% below the Connecticut rate
down 19.1% in a year
Property crimes
21
79% below the U.S. rate
72% below the Connecticut rate
down 14.9% in a year
Social disorder
28
72% below the U.S. rate
51% below the Connecticut rate
down 21.2% in a year

Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.

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Crime by type

Every crime type in Essex Village is near or below the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Essex Village for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

Neighborhoods in Essex Village

Essex Village is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 14; the middle half of residents live where it is between 10 and 31.

Map of Essex Village, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the key's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–50100.0%
  • 50–1000.0%
  • 100–2000.0%
  • 200–4000.0%
  • 400+0.0%

Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.

When it happens

Highest on weekday daytimes

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm25
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am13
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm23
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am12
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 15.4% in a year; across Connecticut it fell 8.3%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-15.4%CT -8.3%-12.6%CT -11.6%
Persons crimes-19.1%CT -12.3%-1.9%CT -4.5%
Property crimes-14.9%CT -7.9%-13.9%CT -12.3%
Social disorder-21.2%CT -10.5%-8.4%CT -5.5%

Change in expected crimes, with Connecticut as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.

Similar-size places

Essex Village against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents

1,710 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Essex Village; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:

Warsaw, NC2,590178
Weed, CA2,59398
Essex Village, CT2,59019

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Essex Village has a higher major-crime index than 1 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Deep River Center (3 mi), is 5% below Essex Village's rate.

New London15 mi93
Waterford14 mi83
Clinton9 mi73
Niantic10 mi48
Groton17 mi41
Colchester16 mi23
Essex Village19

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Essex Village

What are the most common crimes in Essex Village?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 3 a year), shoplifting (about 2 a year) and motor vehicle theft (about 1 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 52% below the U.S. rate per resident.

How we calculated this

Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Essex Village's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Essex Village has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 0.0% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
  • Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
  • Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
  • Residents: 2,590. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Essex Village, Connecticut." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ct/essex-village

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100