Crime in Meriden, Connecticut
Major crime in Meriden is 6% above the U.S. rate per resident: 61% lower for persons crimes and 21% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are about flat 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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Intimidation stands out most, at 1.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Meriden 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 Meriden
The middle half of Meriden residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 58 and 110; the typical (median) resident's is 82. The citywide figure (106) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–509.0%
- 50–10062.7%
- 100–20024.9%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+3.4%
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 rose 0.3% 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.
Meriden against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
208 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Meriden; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Meriden has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Wallingford Center (6 mi), is 31% below Meriden's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Meriden
What are the most common crimes in Meriden?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 342 a year), shoplifting (about 282 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 249 a year). Compared with the U.S., intimidation stands out most: 1.6 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. Meriden's figures add up its 47 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Meriden has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 25.4% 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: 61,109. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Meriden, Connecticut." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ct/meriden
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Wallingford Center6 mi73
- Kensington7 mi53
- Durham7 mi15
- Middletown7 mi53
- Portland10 mi27
- New Britain10 mi126
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