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Safety in Blue Hills · Not graded

Safety in Blue Hills: figures, but no grade

There are 14 graded towns within 10 miles. The nearest town with a Safety Grade is Bloomfield, 3 miles away, graded C+. Blue Hills has no FBI crime figures of its own for 2023–2025, so there is nothing to grade it on.

Nearest with figures

The nearest Connecticut towns with a Safety Grade

TownGradeDistanceViolentProperty
BloomfieldC+3 mi0.821.4
HartfordD3 mi5.125.8
WindsorB−4 mi0.517.6
West HartfordC4 mi0.525.8
East HartfordC+6 mi1.117.6
South WindsorB6 mi0.514.7

Straight-line distance from the center of Blue Hills. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Blue Hills.

Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

On the roads

Two people died in crashes on Blue Hills’s roads in 2019–2023

Blue Hills had 2 fatal crashes in five years, in which two people died; 1 was a pedestrian.

That is about what is typical for Connecticut towns of 2,500–5,000 people: at their median rate (5.5 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Blue Hills’s size would see about 0 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Blue Hills’s own rate (23.9) is context, not a ranking.

2
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
1
pedestrian among them
0
cyclists among them
23.9
per 100,000 a year · Connecticut towns of 2,500–5,000: 5.5

Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.

Next door

Blue Hills and its neighbors

A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty
BloomfieldC+0.821.4
HartfordD5.125.8
WindsorB−0.517.6

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
  • A county agency covers a wide area. Its totals mix many communities, so they say little about any one of them.
  • Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.

How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →

Questions about safety in Blue Hills

Is Blue Hills, CT safe?

There is no Safety Grade for Blue Hills. The nearest Connecticut towns with a grade are Bloomfield (C+, 3 mi), Hartford (D, 3 mi), Windsor (B−, 4 mi).

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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.