The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Hartford, CT
The Hartford metro area, the 47th-largest in the US, is home to 1.22 million residents; Hartford itself is the capital of Connecticut · Updated November 2026
Is Hartford, CT safe?
Yes. An overall CrimeGrade™ of A means crime in the Hartford area is low. Most US neighborhoods have little crime too, so the Hartford area sits near the middle: 54% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime, and 46% in neighborhoods with less. Violent crime grades A and property crime A-. The city of Hartford itself grades C-. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within the Hartford area run from A+ to F, so check the map or the safest and least safe places below.
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Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 855 of 1,000About as safe as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
54% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than the Hartford area as a whole, and 46% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. The Hartford area scores 855.
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 Hartford, CT at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in the Hartford area, 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 the Hartford area
Robberies run high in Upper Albany & Clay Arsenal. In this part of north Hartford, they run at more than double the rate in the rest of Hartford.
Aggravated assault runs low. The Hartford area has 0.75 aggravated assaults a year per 1,000 residents, a small fraction of the US rate of 2.6.
The safest and most dangerous places in the Hartford area
Low crime is the norm across the Hartford area: 88% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and 7% in areas graded D or F. Grades across the Hartford area run from A+ to F; 72% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
88%
A or B 88%C 5%D or F 7%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
7Barry Square, southThefts run at about double the rate in the rest of Hartford.D216
8North East, northeastCar thefts run at about half the rate in the rest of Hartford.F58
9Upper Albany & Clay Arsenal, northThefts run at about double the rate in the rest of Hartford.F0
Neighborhood areas of the city of Hartford, ranked by overall CrimeGrade™; beside each grade is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer). Each one combines several of the smaller areas on the map.
Cities and towns in the Hartford metro area with at least 1,000 residents. Ranked by overall CrimeGrade™; beside each grade is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer), and the other numbers are residents.
Across the area, the Clinton, East Hampton, and Old Saybrook areas have the least crime and the downtown Hartford area the most.
Crime rates and types in the Hartford area
CrimeGrade™ estimates the Hartford area has about 28 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 26% less than the US as a whole and close to Connecticut.
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.
Theft is the most common crime in the Hartford area, about 41% of everything reported, but assault costs more, because each one does more harm.
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 the Hartford area
These figures come from the reports of the police departments across the Hartford area, 2022 to 2024.
In the Hartford area, 53% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often at homes: 38% of them, against 34% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (53%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Car theft
Homes (35%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Theft from cars
Homes (38%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Vandalism
Homes (33%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (45%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Aggravated assault
Homes (50%)
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 the Hartford area compares with nearby metro areas
The Hartford area has less crime than 5 of its 10 nearest metro areas.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from the Hartford area. Beside each overall CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with metro areas of similar size and density, the Hartford area is safer than 82% of them.
Night lighting, transit and empty homes in the Hartford area
One thing sets the Hartford area apart: it has 10 buses and trains an hour at the evening rush, where most Americans have none nearby. Places like that tend to report more robbery; here robbery sits near the national middle.
Lit at nightSatellite images show which neighborhoods are lit at night, a sign of busy streets and businesses. Brightly lit places tend to report more theft and vandalism.68% where people liveUS: 78%Lower than for 87% of Americans in metro areas
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for the Hartford area: D (14 of 100).10 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 79% of Americans in metro areas
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary.5.4% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 68% of Americans in metro areas
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Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.17% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 60% of Americans in metro areas
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 the Hartford area
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs the Hartford area about $715 a year per household, 41% less than the US figure of $1,205. The total is about $349 million a year.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost rises to about $944 million a year, or $776 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$66 million
$55
Rape
$13 million
$11
Robbery
$13 million
$10
Assault
$79 million
$65
Burglary
$11 million
$9
Theft
$71 million
$58
Vehicle theft
$46 million
$38
Arson
$1.6 million
$1
Vandalism
$48 million
$39
Total
$349 million
$287
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 the Hartford area 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. These figures cover the whole Hartford metro area. 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 the Hartford area average a SchoolGrade of C+: 45% of students test proficient, against 43% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in the Hartford area on SchoolGrade
