East Side-Bridgeport is a neighborhood of 12,700 residents in Bridgeport, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
Is East Side-Bridgeport in Bridgeport safe?
Crime in East Side-Bridgeport is high, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of D-. Most US neighborhoods have far less: 92% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime than East Side-Bridgeport. Violent crime grades F and property crime D. Bridgeport as a whole grades C+. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within East Side-Bridgeport run from C to F, so check the map below.
D-
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 118 of 1,000Less safe than nearly all US neighborhoodsi What this means
8% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than East Side-Bridgeport as a whole, and 92% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. East Side-Bridgeport scores 118.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its crime with the people, homes and cars there, on one national scale, from green for the least crime to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in East Side-Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in East Side-Bridgeport in Bridgeport, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out in East Side-Bridgeport
Theft is a strength. East Side-Bridgeport grades D for property crime, but theft grades B.
Thefts from cars happen on streets and sidewalks far more often than nationally. In Bridgeport as a whole, 80% of reported thefts from cars happen on streets and sidewalks, against 18% nationally.
How East Side-Bridgeport compares within Bridgeport
High crime is widespread across East Side-Bridgeport: 81% of residents live in areas graded D or F, and the rest in areas graded C. Grades across East Side-Bridgeport run from C to F; every part of East Side-Bridgeport has more crime than the typical US neighborhood.
19%81%
C 19%D or F 81%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
East Side-Bridgeport has less crime than 0 of the 11 neighborhoods in Bridgeport. It covers much of the East Side-Bridgeport and Boston Avenue-Mill Hill areas.
Is crime going up in Bridgeport?
Reported crime in Bridgeport as a whole has fallen since 2019: violent crime is down 33% and property crime down 16%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 5.9 to 3.9 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 17 to 14 (US: 18). Neither changed much from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
BridgeportUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Bridgeport. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Bridgeport
Violent, US
Property, Bridgeport
Property, US
2016
+30%
+4%
+30%
+15%
2017
+54%
+4%
+38%
+12%
2018
+15%
+0%
+14%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
-4%
+4%
-0%
-8%
2021
-6%
+6%
-14%
-10%
2022
-28%
+5%
-27%
-6%
2023
-33%
+2%
-18%
-7%
2024
-33%
-4%
-16%
-15%
Crime rates and types in East Side-Bridgeport
CrimeGrade™ estimates East Side-Bridgeport has about 50 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 35% more than the US as a whole and 45% more than Bridgeport as a whole.
Overall crime
Violent crime
Property crime
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. These figures include simple assaults and vandalism, which the FBI's violent and property crime rates leave out.
Assault is the most common crime in East Side-Bridgeport, about 39% of everything reported.
Each CrimeGrade™ compares a crime with what it affects: people for assaults and robbery, homes for burglary, parked cars for vehicle theft. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Where and when crime happens in Bridgeport
The Bridgeport Police Department polices East Side-Bridgeport; these figures cover Bridgeport as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Bridgeport as a whole, 60% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (60%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (78%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Theft from cars
Streets and sidewalks (80%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Vandalism
Homes (40%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Robbery
Streets and sidewalks (69%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Streets and sidewalks (42%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
How East Side-Bridgeport compares with nearby neighborhoods
East Side-Bridgeport has the most crime of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from East Side-Bridgeport. Beside each overall CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, East Side-Bridgeport has more crime than 71% of them.
Nightlife, walkability and density in East Side-Bridgeport
Two things set East Side-Bridgeport apart: it has 1.0 bars and nightlife spots for every 1,000 residents, against 0.6 nationally, and a Walk Grade of A- (73 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole. It also combines many bars with dense blocks: places with both tend to report more assault and robbery than places with only one of them, and they run high here.
Bars and nightlifeBars, lounges, clubs and casinos. Places with more bars tend to report more assault and robbery.1.0 per 1,000 residentsUS: 0.6Higher than for 81% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft and assault. 71% of residents here live in walkable areas.A- (73 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 79% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.94% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 79% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.21 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 68% of residents of US city neighborhoods
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What crime costs East Side-Bridgeport
Crime costs East Side-Bridgeport about $2,459 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, about double the US figure of $1,205.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost comes to about $51 million a year, or $4,002 per resident.
How CrimeGrade™ works
A CrimeGrade™ shows how much crime an area has compared with the rest of the country, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most. Every neighborhood in the US is graded on the same scale, so a B in East Side-Bridgeport means the same as a B anywhere else.
CrimeGrade™ starts from the crimes people report to police and measures each kind of crime against what it affects: people for assaults, homes for burglaries, parked cars for car thefts.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
Schools in East Side-Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT average a SchoolGrade of F: 12% of students test proficient, against 11% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in East Side-Bridgeport on SchoolGrade
