These Are Connecticut's Safest Communities: 2018 Study

While virtually no community is perfect when it comes to security, many residents of Connecticut can rest at night knowing that their town or city is rather safe. Five Connecticut communities rank among the top 100 safest in the United States, according to the home security experts at the website SafeWise, and several more are considered among the safest places in the nation to raise a child.

But within the Constitution State itself, which communities are the safest? SafeWise recently analyzed the latest statistics from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program and other sources to come up with a ranking of Connecticut's 20 safest communities. Click here to read the website's methodology.

Darien is Connecticut's safest community, with a violent crime rate of .05 per 1,000 residents, SafeWise writes. The statistic is from 2016, the most recent year of data. Next are Ridgefield (.08 per 1,000), Newtown (.11 per 1,000), Cheshire (.14 per 1,000) and South Windsor (.16 per 1,000). All five are in the national ranking mentioned above.

In addition to the Connecticut communities that appear among the national rankings, the state boasts other positive elements when it comes to fighting crime, according to SafeWise.

"Equally impressive, no city on our list reported more than one violent crime per 1,000 people in 2016," writes author Alexia Chianis. "And the average property crime rate among these cities was 50 percent less than the US norm, with safe cities such as Greenwich and Simsbury experiencing substantially lower rates of property crime."

Because we want you to support SafeWise in its efforts, Patch is going to list the top 10. You'll have to click on over to the SafeWise site to see which communities are in the remaining 10 spots.

Below are the top 10 safest communities in Connecticut for 2018, according to SafeWise:

1. Darien (#54 nationally)
   Population: 21,995
   Violent crimes per 1,000: 0.05
   Property crimes per 1,000: 11.00
   Total crime: 0.41% violent, 99.59% property
2. Ridgefield (#61)
   Population: 25,358
   Violent crimes per 1,000: 0.08
   Property crimes per 1,000: 2.84
   Total crime: 2.78% violent, 97.22% property
3. Newtown (#67)
   Population: 28,105
   Violent crimes per 1,000: 0.11
   Property crimes per 1,000: 2.95
   Total crime: 3.61% violent, 96.39% property
4. Cheshire (#83)
   Population: 29,295
   Violent crimes per 1,000: 0.14
   Property crimes per 1,000: 8.34
   Total crime: 1.64% violent, 98.36% property
5. South Windsor (#100)
   Population: 25,803
   Violent crimes per 1,000: 0.16
   Property crimes per 1,000: 13.76
   Total crime: 1.13% violent, 98.87% property
6. Greenwich
   Population: 62,970
   Violent crimes per 1,000: 0.22
   Property crimes per 1,000: 6.40
   Total crime: 3.47% violent, 96.53% property
7. Westport
   Population: 28,198
   Violent crimes per 1,000: 0.25
   Property crimes per 1,000: 8.79
   Total crime: 2.82% violent, 97.18% property
8. Simsbury
   Population: 24,519
   Violent crimes per 1,000: 0.29
   Property crimes per 1,000: 6.77
   Total crime: 4.22% violent, 95.78% property
9. Branford
   Population: 28,168
   Violent crimes per 1,000: 0.36
   Property crimes per 1,000: 19.28
   Total crime: 1.84% violent, 98.16% property
10. Guilford
    Population: 22,343
    Violent crimes per 1,000: 0.36
    Property crimes per 1,000: 8.95
    Total crime: 4.00% violent, 96.00% property

To view the remaining 10 safest Connecticut communities, click here.

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