East Rock, New Haven, CT Violent Crime Rates and Maps
East Rock is a neighborhood of 10,300 residents in New Haven, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in East Rock?
East Rock grades B for violent crime, with more of it than the neighborhoods where 76% of Americans live. Assaults make up 90% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. New Haven as a whole grades C for violent crime.
B
Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 673 of 1,000More violent crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
24% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than East Rock as a whole, and 76% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. East Rock scores 673.
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 violent crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its violent crime with the people who spend time there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy downtown or nightlife strip can show red while the homes around it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a solid connection. Compare high speed internet in East Rock, New Haven, CT at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in East Rock 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 about violent crime in East Rock
Aggravated assaults are less common than the crime level suggests. Violent crime in East Rock runs 35% above the US rate, but aggravated assaults run 42% below it: 1.5 a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.6 nationally.
Robberies happen on streets and sidewalks far more often than nationally. In New Haven as a whole, 60% of reported robberies happen on streets and sidewalks, against 31% nationally.
How East Rock compares within New Haven
Most of East Rock grades well for violent crime: 86% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and 14% in areas graded D or F. Violent crime grades across East Rock run from A- to D.
86%14%
A or B 86%D or F 14%
Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
East Rock has less violent crime than 15 of the 17 neighborhoods in New Haven. It covers much of the East Rock and Dixwell areas and the Fair Haven area.
Is violent crime going up in New Haven?
Reported violent crime in New Haven as a whole has fallen 41% since 2019. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 9.0 to 5.3 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7). Violent crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Violent 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
2016
+4%
+4%
2017
-6%
+4%
2018
-4%
+0%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-20%
+4%
2021
-31%
+6%
2022
-36%
+5%
2023
-36%
+2%
2024
-41%
-4%
Violent crime rates and types in East Rock
CrimeGrade™ estimates East Rock has about 18 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 35% more than the US as a whole and 40% less than New Haven as a whole.
All violent crime
Assaults
Robbery
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Violent crime here includes simple assaults, which the FBI's violent crime rate leaves out.
Assault is the most common violent crime in East Rock, about 90% of the total.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a violent crime with the people who spend time in an area, not only the people who live there. 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 violent crime happens in New Haven
The New Haven Police Department polices East Rock; these figures cover New Haven as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In New Haven as a whole, 33% of aggravated assaults happen at a home, against 53% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
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.
Violent crime in East Rock and nearby neighborhoods
East Rock has less violent crime than 9 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods; only Downtown New Haven has less.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from East Rock. Beside each violent crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, East Rock is safer than 60% of them.
Tree cover, nightlife and walkability in East Rock
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, two set East Rock apart: it has 0.9 bars and nightlife spots for every 1,000 residents, against 0.6 nationally, and a Walk Grade of B (60 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole. Places like that tend to report more assault and robbery, and they run high here.
Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.20% where people liveUS: 21%Higher than for 79% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Bars and nightlifeBars, lounges, clubs and casinos. Places with more bars tend to report more assault and robbery.0.9 per 1,000 residentsUS: 0.6Higher than for 78% 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 assault.B (60 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 72% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery.83% of residentsUS: 24%Higher 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 violent crime costs East Rock
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs East Rock about $11 million a year, or $1,049 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $3.0 million, or $288 per resident.
Billed cost of violent crime per resident, per year
How CrimeGrade™ works
The violent crime CrimeGrade™ covers murder, rape, robbery and assault, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each violent crime against the people who spend time in an area, so a busy downtown is graded on its workers and visitors as well as its residents.
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.
