Crime in Hartford, Connecticut
Major crime in Hartford is 31% above the U.S. rate per resident: 31% higher for persons crimes and 31% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 14.4% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
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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Weapons violations stand out most, at 4.2 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Hartford for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Hartford
The middle half of Hartford residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 81 and 142; the typical (median) resident's is 108. The citywide figure (131) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–509.0%
- 50–10037.0%
- 100–20044.5%
- 200–4006.5%
- 400+3.1%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 14.4% in a year; across Connecticut it fell 8.3%
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.
Hartford against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
94 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Hartford; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Hartford has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, West Hartford (3 mi), is 8% below Hartford's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Hartford
What are the most common crimes in Hartford?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 646 a year), theft from vehicle (about 640 a year) and motor vehicle theft (about 528 a year). Compared with the U.S., weapons violations stands out most: 4.2 times 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. Hartford's figures add up its 93 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Hartford's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 76.8% 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: 122,877. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Hartford, Connecticut." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ct/hartford
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- West Hartford3 mi120
- East Hartford4 mi89
- Wethersfield4 mi99
- Newington6 mi109
- Glastonbury Center6 mi76
- New Britain8 mi126
- Manchester9 mi87
- Kensington10 mi53