Photo: John Phelan · CC BY-SA 4.0Reported crime per resident in Glastonbury fell 59% from 2023 to 2025
Next door, 2 of 6 towns with figures record less crime per resident. Across all the graded crimes, Glastonbury lands on B+ (#36 of 90 graded towns in Connecticut): less crime per resident than 70% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Violence and property crime split as 0.3 violent crime and 10.2 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 1.5 and 15.1 in the rest of Connecticut.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of CT” is every other Connecticut city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in Glastonbury
2 of the 6 graded towns next door report less crime
Of the 8 Connecticut towns on Glastonbury’s borders, 6 have a Safety Grade: Portland (A), East Hampton (A), Wethersfield (B), Rocky Hill (B), East Hartford (C+), Manchester (C+). Marlborough and Bolton have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025. Neighbors ↓
Reported crime is falling
Crime reported per resident fell from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Glastonbury’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are lower than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the stronger of the two.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Glastonbury property | Rest of Connecticut property | Glastonbury violent | Rest of Connecticut violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 13.6 | 16.8 | 0.4 | 1.7 |
| 2023 | 15.1 | 17.2 | 0.2 | 1.7 |
| 2024 | 9.6 | 15.5 | 0.3 | 1.5 |
| 2025 | 6.0 | 12.7 | 0.3 | 1.2 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Connecticut.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Glastonbury | Rest of Connecticut | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.4 | 1.7 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.2 | 1.7 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.3 | 1.5 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.3 | 1.2 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Glastonbury’s police reported 28 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.3 per 1,000 residents a year, against 1.5 in the rest of Connecticut and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Glastonbury per 1,000 residents
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And fewer than 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
224 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
10 violent and 214 property, as reported to the FBI by Glastonbury’s police.
13 people died in crashes on Glastonbury’s roads in 2019–2023
Glastonbury had 11 fatal crashes in five years, in which 13 people died; 2 were pedestrians.
That is 7.4 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, about the same as the median for Connecticut towns of 25,000–100,000 people (6.8, 47 towns).
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.
Glastonbury and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glastonbury | B+ | 0.3 | 10.2 |
| Manchester | C+ | 1.2 | 18.9 |
| Wethersfield | B | 0.7 | 13.9 |
| East Hartford | C+ | 1.1 | 17.6 |
| Marlborough | — | — | — |
| Rocky Hill | B | 0.7 | 13.7 |
| Portland | A | 0.3 | 4.3 |
| East Hampton | A | 0.2 | 5.3 |
| Bolton | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Marlborough and Bolton have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025.
Connecticut towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glastonbury | B+ | 0.3 | 10.2 |
| Groton | B+ | 0.7 | 9.5 |
| Naugatuck | B | 0.7 | 10.7 |
| Torrington | B | 1.0 | 11.9 |
| Trumbull | C+ | 0.8 | 21.0 |
| Newington | C+ | 0.7 | 22.6 |
The five graded Connecticut towns closest to Glastonbury’s population (35,503), by grade.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
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.
- One number for all of Glastonbury. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Glastonbury’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (35,676 in 2025); our figure for Glastonbury is 35,503 (2025 Census estimate).
- 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 Glastonbury
Is Glastonbury, CT safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Glastonbury reports less crime per resident than 70% of U.S. towns, a B+ Safety Grade and #36 of 90 in Connecticut. Its police reported 0.3 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 1.5 in the rest of Connecticut and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Glastonbury?
0.3 violent and 10.2 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Connecticut reports 1.5 and 15.1; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
How many homicides were there in Glastonbury in 2025?
Glastonbury’s police reported 0 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 0.0 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Is Glastonbury safer than Manchester?
Manchester reports more crime per resident than Glastonbury: Manchester grades C+ for safety and Glastonbury B+. Manchester’s police reported 1.2 violent and 18.9 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Glastonbury?
Glastonbury’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Glastonbury”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, 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.