The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Plainville, CT
Plainville is a town of 17,100 in Capitol Planning Region, about 12 miles southwest of downtown Hartford · Updated November 2026
Is Plainville, CT safe?
Yes, crime in Plainville is low, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of A. Because most US neighborhoods are safe as well, Plainville sits near the middle: safer than the neighborhoods where 60% of Americans live. Violent and property crime both grade A here. Its neighborhoods are much alike, from A to A-; see the map below.
A
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 878 of 1,000About as safe as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
60% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Plainville as a whole, and 40% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Plainville scores 878.
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 Plainville, CT at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Plainville, 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 Plainville
Simple assault is the exception. Plainville grades A for violent crime, but simple assault grades B-, worse than in the neighborhoods where 79% of Americans live.
Car thefts happen in the morning far more often than nationally. In Plainville, 49% of reported car thefts happen in the morning (6 am to noon), against 23% nationally.
The safest and least safe parts of Plainville
Every part of Plainville where people live grades A or B on the national scale. Grades across Plainville run from A to A-; 89% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
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A or B 100%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Within Plainville, the northwest side has the least crime and the center the most.
Is crime going up in Plainville?
Reported property crime in Plainville has fallen 26% since 2019. Too few violent crimes are reported here each year for a reliable violent crime trend. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 20 to 15 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime fell 42%.
Property crime, change since 2019
PlainvilleUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Plainville. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Plainville
Property, US
2016
+38%
+15%
2017
+70%
+12%
2018
+46%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+10%
-8%
2021
+27%
-10%
2022
-3%
-6%
2023
+27%
-7%
2024
-26%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Plainville
CrimeGrade™ estimates Plainville has about 32 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 14% less than the US as a whole and 18% more than 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.
The largest share of crime reported in Plainville is assault, about 42% of the total. It also makes up 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 Plainville
Plainville has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Plainville, 32% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often at homes: 51% of them, against 34% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Stores and businesses (60%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Car theft
Homes (49%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Theft from cars
Homes (51%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Vandalism
Parking lots and garages (45%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
How Plainville compares with nearby cities
Plainville has more crime than 7 of its 10 nearest cities. Farmington and River Glen have the least crime nearby.
Two things set Plainville apart: it has 15.4 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally, and 3.0 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally. Places like that tend to report more theft; here theft sits near the national middle.
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft.15.4 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 89% of US city residents
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.3.0 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 84% of US city residents
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. 81% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D+ (18 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 54% of US city residents
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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.4% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 78% of US city residents
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.53 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 67% of US city residents
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft and robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Plainville: D (15 of 100).3 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 62% of US city residents
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 Plainville
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Plainville about $587 a year per household, 51% less 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 $7.4 million a year, or $436 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$200,000
$12
Rape
$170,000
$10
Robbery
$49,000
$3
Assault
$1.8 million
$108
Burglary
$73,000
$4
Theft
$1.1 million
$63
Vehicle theft
$580,000
$34
Arson
$7,600
under $1
Vandalism
$410,000
$24
Total
$4.4 million
$258
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 Plainville 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 Plainville, CT average a SchoolGrade of D: 34% of students test proficient, against 34% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Plainville on SchoolGrade
