Hill is a neighborhood of 15,100 residents in New Haven, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Hill?
Violent crime is high in Hill: an F, with more violent crime than the neighborhoods where 94% of Americans live. Assaults make up 93% 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.
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Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 26 of 1,000More violent crime than nearly all US neighborhoodsi What this means
6% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Hill as a whole, and 94% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Hill scores 26.
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 Hill, New Haven, CT at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Hill 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 Hill
Aggravated assaults are less common than in most neighborhoods graded F for violent crime. Hill has 4.6 aggravated assaults a year per 1,000 residents; for the typical resident of a US neighborhood graded F for violent crime, the figure is 9.5.
Robberies and simple assaults both run high. In Hill, each runs at about triple the US rate: 2.1 robberies and 29.1 simple assaults a year per 1,000 residents, against 0.62 and 9.7 nationally.
How Hill compares within New Haven
High violent crime is widespread across Hill: 91% of residents live in areas graded D or F, and 3% in areas graded A or B. Violent crime grades across Hill run from B+ to F.
91%
A or B 3%C 6%D or F 91%
Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Hill has less violent crime than 2 of the 17 neighborhoods in New Haven. It covers much of the Hill and West River areas and the Downtown New Haven and Wooster Square areas.
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 Hill
CrimeGrade™ estimates Hill has about 36 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, more than double the rate for the US as a whole and 21% more 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 Hill, about 93% 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 Hill; 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. Robberies happen most often on streets and sidewalks: 60% of them.
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 Hill and nearby neighborhoods
Of the 10 neighborhoods closest to Hill, 9 have less violent crime. Downtown New Haven and East Rock have the least.
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, two set Hill apart: it has 68 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole, and 24 buses and trains an hour at the evening rush, where most Americans have none nearby. Places with both tend to report more robbery than places with only one of them, and it runs high here.
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more robbery.68 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 79% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Hill: C (34 of 100).24 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 74% 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+ (65 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 74% 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.85% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 71% 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 Hill
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Hill about $54 million a year, or $3,596 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $12 million, or $774 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.
