CrimeMetric

Crime in Norwalk, Connecticut

Major crime in Norwalk is 32% below the U.S. rate per resident: 82% lower for persons crimes and 21% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 12.0% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
68
32% below the U.S. rate
about the Connecticut rate
up 12.0% in a year
Persons crimes
18
82% below the U.S. rate
42% below the Connecticut rate
down 7.6% in a year
Property crimes
79
21% below the U.S. rate
6% above the Connecticut rate
up 13.2% in a year
Social disorder
54
46% below the U.S. rate
7% below the Connecticut rate
up 4.1% 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 Norwalk is near or below the U.S. rate

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

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Norwalk

The middle half of Norwalk residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 33 and 76; the typical (median) resident's is 43. The citywide figure (68) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Norwalk, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Tap one to compare it. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5055.0%
  • 50–10026.8%
  • 100–20016.6%
  • 200–4001.5%
  • 400+0.2%

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 6pm93
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am42
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm84
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am37
Trend and outlook

Major crime rose 12.0% in a year; across Connecticut it fell 8.3%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime+12.0%CT -8.3%-10.7%CT -11.6%
Persons crimes-7.6%CT -12.3%-2.0%CT -4.5%
Property crimes+13.2%CT -7.9%-11.1%CT -12.3%
Social disorder+4.1%CT -10.5%-4.1%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

Norwalk against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents

384 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Norwalk; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:

Hemet, CA95,843164
El Cajon, CA96,322120
Reading, PA96,379115
Bryan, TX95,641106
Sandy, UT95,96794
Norwalk, CT95,52168
Indio, CA96,14952
Hoover, AL95,70949

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

Nearby places

Norwalk has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Noroton (5 mi), is 37% below Norwalk's rate.

Bridgeport13 mi77
Stamford7 mi69
Norwalk68
Long Hill15 mi59
Noroton5 mi43
Tashua14 mi35

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

Questions about crime in Norwalk

What are the most common crimes in Norwalk?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 397 a year), shoplifting (about 291 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 215 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: about 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. Norwalk's figures add up its 68 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Norwalk has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 14.5% 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: 95,521. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Norwalk, Connecticut." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ct/norwalk

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100