North East, Hartford, CT Violent Crime Rates and Maps
North East is a neighborhood of 11,100 residents in Hartford, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in North East?
North East grades F for violent crime, with more of it than the neighborhoods where 98% of Americans live. Assaults make up 89% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. Hartford as a whole grades C- for violent crime.
F
Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 0 of 1,000More violent crime than nearly all US neighborhoodsi What this means
2% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than North East as a whole, and 98% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. North East scores 0.
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 North East, Hartford, CT at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in North East in Hartford, 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 North East
Crime per resident runs lower than the grade suggests. Few people come to North East to work or shop: it has only 11 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. With few visitors, its crime per resident looks lower than its CrimeGrade™ suggests. The CrimeGrade™ weighs each crime against the people, homes and parked cars actually here.
How North East compares within Hartford
Every part of North East grades D or F for violent crime on the national scale.
100%
D or F 100%
Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
North East has less violent crime than 0 of the 14 neighborhoods in Hartford. It covers much of the North East area and the Upper Albany and Clay Arsenal areas.
Is violent crime going up in Hartford?
Reported violent crime in Hartford as a whole has fallen 41% since 2019. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 8.6 to 5.1 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7). In 2024 alone, violent crime fell 15%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
HartfordUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Hartford. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Hartford
Violent, US
2016
+27%
+4%
2017
+27%
+4%
2018
+25%
+0%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+17%
+4%
2021
-12%
+6%
2022
-30%
+5%
2023
-30%
+2%
2024
-41%
-4%
Violent crime rates and types in North East
CrimeGrade™ estimates North East has about 18 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 32% more than the US as a whole and 17% more than Hartford 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 North East, about 89% 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 Hartford
The Hartford Police Department polices North East; these figures cover Hartford as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Hartford as a whole, 42% of aggravated assaults happen at a home, against 53% nationally. Robberies happen most often on streets and sidewalks: 45% of them.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Robbery
Streets and sidewalks (45%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (42%)
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 North East and nearby neighborhoods
North East has the most violent crime of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from North East. 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, North East has more violent crime than 92% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, two set North East apart: it has 11 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole, and 1.0 bars and nightlife spots for every 1,000 residents, against 0.6 nationally. Places with few jobs tend to report less robbery, yet robbery runs higher here than that would suggest.
Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.28% where people liveUS: 21%Higher than for 89% of residents of US city neighborhoods
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more robbery.11 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 87% 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- (56 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 68% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Bars and nightlifeBars, lounges, clubs and casinos. Places with more bars tend to report more assault and robbery.1.0 per 1,000 residentsUS: 0.6Higher than for 80% 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 North East
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs North East about $69 million a year, or $6,223 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $11 million, or $1,015 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.
