Fair Haven is a neighborhood of 18,800 residents in New Haven, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Fair Haven in New Haven safe?
Fair Haven is among the higher-crime places in the US: an overall CrimeGrade™ of D-, with more crime than the neighborhoods where 92% of Americans live. Violent crime grades D+ and property crime F. New Haven as a whole grades D+. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Fair Haven run from B+ to F, so check the map below.
D-
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 112 of 1,000Less safe than nearly all US neighborhoodsi What this means
8% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Fair Haven as a whole, and 92% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Fair Haven scores 112.
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 Fair Haven, New Haven, CT at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Fair Haven in New Haven, 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 Fair Haven
Thefts from cars happen on streets and sidewalks far more often than nationally. In New Haven as a whole, 57% of reported thefts from cars happen on streets and sidewalks, against 18% nationally.
Car thefts and simple assaults both run high. In Fair Haven, each runs at more than double the US rate: 6.1 car thefts and 22.4 simple assaults a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 and 9.7 nationally.
How Fair Haven compares within New Haven
In Fair Haven, 15% of residents live in areas graded A or B, 18% in areas graded C and 67% in areas graded D or F. Grades across Fair Haven run from B+ to F; every part of Fair Haven has more crime than the typical US neighborhood.
15%18%67%
A or B 15%C 18%D or F 67%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Fair Haven has less crime than 7 of the 17 neighborhoods in New Haven. It covers much of the Fair Haven area and the Annex and Mill River areas.
Is crime going up in New Haven?
Since 2019, reported violent crime in New Haven as a whole is down 41%, while property crime has held about steady. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 9.0 to 5.3 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 38 to 36 (US: 18). Neither changed much from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
New HavenUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve New Haven. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, New Haven
Violent, US
Property, New Haven
Property, US
2016
+4%
+4%
+10%
+15%
2017
-6%
+4%
+5%
+12%
2018
-4%
+0%
+4%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
-20%
+4%
-7%
-8%
2021
-31%
+6%
-16%
-10%
2022
-36%
+5%
-18%
-6%
2023
-36%
+2%
+1%
-7%
2024
-41%
-4%
-6%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Fair Haven
CrimeGrade™ estimates Fair Haven has about 72 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 93% more than the US as a whole and 19% less than New Haven 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 Fair Haven, about 35% of everything reported, and it also accounts for the largest share of what crime costs here.
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 New Haven
The New Haven Police Department polices Fair Haven; these figures cover New Haven as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In New Haven as a whole, 61% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (61%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (66%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Streets and sidewalks (57%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Vandalism
Streets and sidewalks (48%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Robbery
Streets and sidewalks (60%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Streets and sidewalks (49%)
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 Fair Haven compares with nearby neighborhoods
Fair Haven has more crime than 6 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods. Prospect Hill and Downtown New Haven have the least crime nearby.
One thing sets Fair Haven apart: it has 9 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. Places like that tend to report less theft and robbery, yet theft and robbery run higher here than that would suggest.
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.9 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 92% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.24% where people liveUS: 21%Higher than for 85% 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. 51% of residents here live in walkable areas.B- (55 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 68% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.0.4 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Lower than for 69% 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 Fair Haven
Crime costs Fair Haven about $2,007 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, 67% more than 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 $46 million a year, or $2,427 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 Fair Haven 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 Fair Haven, New Haven, CT average a SchoolGrade of F: 19% of students test proficient, against 20% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Fair Haven on SchoolGrade
