Crime in West Haven, Connecticut
Major crime in West Haven is 47% below the U.S. rate per resident: 79% lower for persons crimes and 39% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 5.8% 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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No crime type in West Haven is more than 10% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in West Haven 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 West Haven
The middle half of West Haven residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 31 and 65; the typical (median) resident's is 49.
- 0–5051.5%
- 50–10039.7%
- 100–2008.8%
- 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.
Highest on weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 5.8% 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.
West Haven against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
451 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than West Haven; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
West Haven has a lower major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Orange (3 mi), is 3.7 times West Haven's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in West Haven
What are the most common crimes in West Haven?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 138 a year), theft from vehicle (about 116 a year) and shoplifting (about 107 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder stands out most: 5% above 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. West Haven's figures add up its 43 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- West Haven has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 19.6% 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: 55,411. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in West Haven, Connecticut." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ct/west-haven
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Orange3 mi199
- New Haven3 mi192
- East Haven5 mi93
- Milford6 mi89
- Derby7 mi124
- Ansonia8 mi84
- Branford Center8 mi64
- North Haven9 mi110