The 10 Most Dangerous Cities In Connecticut: 2020 Rankings

CONNECTICUT — We love to post and share stories about our state's safest communities, but we don't pay much attention to our most dangerous ones. Or maybe we do, and then turn away.

RoadSnacks, a website that analyzes cities and states using various data, recently released its newest ranking of the state's most dangerous cities — an assessment created using violent crimes and property crimes in cities with a population of 7,000 or more. There are 93 municipalities that match that criterion in Connecticut.

Connecticut is the 15th wealthiest state in the nation, so expectations regarding safety may be higher here than in other areas. Admirably, our crime numbers have been dropping at an impressive rate. Total violent crime in the Nutmeg State fell by ten percent, one of the steepest drops in the country. But the plunge has not been across the board: Bridgeport recorded the highest numbers of property crimes and violent crimes in the state's history.

This is the fifth year the website has released its analysis of the state's most dangerous cities. The same town has made the top slot two years in a row.

Here are the top 10 cities in Connecticut with the highest number of violent and property crimes, including robberies and burglaries, according to the analysis performed by RoadSnacks:

1. Hartford

• Rank Last Year: 1 (No Change)
• Violent Crimes Per 100k: (1st most dangerous)
• Property Crimes Per 100k: (3rd most dangerous)

Hartford is the most dangerous city in the state based on 2018 data, and its residents face a 1 in 93 chance of being the victim of violence.

2. New Haven

• Rank Last Year: 2 (No change)
• Violent Crimes Per 100k: (2nd most dangerous)
• Property Crimes Per 100k: (2nd most dangerous)

Residents of the second most populated city in Connecticut face a 1 in 118 chance of being the victim of a violent crime — that's more than four times more likely than anywhere else in the state.

3. Waterbury

• Rank Last Year: 3 (No change)
• Violent Crimes Per 100k: (5th most dangerous)
• Property Crimes Per 100k: (1st most dangerous)

You haven't imagined it: Waterbury has seen a rise in crime, compared to the previous year's reckoning. Residents of "The Brass City" now face a 1 in 25.5 chance of being the victim of a property crime, a number twice as bad as the state's average.

4. New Britain

• Rank Last Year: 4 (No change)
• Violent Crimes Per 100k: (6th most dangerous)
• Property Crimes Per 100k: (7th most dangerous)

Although it's rank in the survey is unchanged from the previous year, citizens of New Britain have seen both violent and property crime dropping at a rapid pace.

5. Plainville

• Rank Last Year: 6 (Up 1)
• Violent Crimes Per 100k: (16th most dangerous)
• Property Crimes Per 100k: (6th most dangerous)

Although not so much plagued by violent crime as other municipalities in this survey, the residents of Plainville, which was the smallest community to make the list, still face a 1 in 34.8 chance of being the victim of property crime.

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6. Bloomfield

• Rank Last Year: 11 (Up 5)
• Violent Crimes Per 100k: (12th most dangerous)
• Property Crimes Per 100k: (10th most dangerous)

Residents of Bloomfield have every right to be alarmed: Although their city has seen a 12 percent drop in property crime in recent years, it is rapidly climbing the overall list, up five pegs from the previous rankings.

7. Derby

• Rank Last Year: 9 (Up 2)
• Violent Crimes Per 100k: (9th most dangerous)
• Property Crimes Per 100k: (16th most dangerous)

Like Waterbury, Derby's crime stats have been trending in the wrong direction. Violent crime went up from 2017-2018, and property crime is also climbing.

8. New London

Rank Last Year: 5 (Down 3)
Violent Crimes Per 100k: (4th most dangerous)
Property Crimes Per 100k: (22nd most dangerous)

New London's violent crime rate is just behind that of Hartford. One out of 221 residents are the victims of violence, a rate that is four times the state average.

9. East Windsor

• Rank Last Year: 20 (Up 11)
• Violent Crimes Per 100k: (22nd most dangerous)
• Property Crimes Per 100k: (5th most dangerous)

Property crime has dropped of late in East Windsor, but there has not been much let-up in the rate of violent crime.

10. East Hartford

Rank Last Year: 10 (No Change)
Violent Crimes Per 100k: (15th most dangerous)
Property Crimes Per 100k: (13th most dangerous)

East Hartford claims the 10th slot on the list, unchanged from the previous ranking, an unfortunately there has not been much change in its crimes stats.

You can see the complete analysis here from RoadSnacks.

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