Photo: ajay_suresh · CC BY 2.0Ridgefield reports less crime per resident than 97% of U.S. towns
On crimes reported to the FBI by Ridgefield’s police in 2023–2025, it grades A+ for safety: #3 of 90 graded towns in 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 Ridgefield
Ridgefield reports less crime than every graded town next door
Of the 3 Connecticut towns on Ridgefield’s borders, 3 have a Safety Grade: Redding (A+), Wilton (A), Danbury (B−). Neighbors ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Ridgefield’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.
Violent crime, by year and by type
Ridgefield’s police reported 8 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.1 per 1,000 residents a year, against 1.5 in the rest of Connecticut and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
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| Year | Ridgefield | Rest of Connecticut | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.0 | 1.7 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.0 | 1.7 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.2 | 1.5 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
For every 1,000 residents, about 2 property crimes reported
And no violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
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.
Reported crime is steady
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Connecticut.
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| Year | Ridgefield property | Rest of Connecticut property | Ridgefield violent | Rest of Connecticut violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.4 | 16.9 | 0.0 | 1.7 |
| 2023 | 2.0 | 17.3 | 0.0 | 1.7 |
| 2024 | 2.8 | 15.6 | 0.2 | 1.5 |
| 2025 | 1.6 | 12.7 | 0.0 | 1.2 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
41 crimes reported in 2025
1 violent and 40 property, as reported to the FBI by Ridgefield’s police.
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total. 2025 figures come from FBI Crime Data Explorer, which publishes violent crime, homicides, robberies and property crime only.
Five people died in crashes on Ridgefield’s roads in 2019–2023
Ridgefield had 5 fatal crashes in five years, in which five people died.
That is about what is typical for Connecticut towns of 25,000–100,000 people: at their median rate (6.8 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Ridgefield’s size would see about 9 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Ridgefield’s own rate (4.0) is context, not a ranking.
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.
Ridgefield and its neighbors
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ridgefield | A+ | 0.1 | 2.1 |
| Wilton | A | 0.2 | 6.3 |
| Redding | A+ | 0.2 | 3.0 |
| Danbury | B− | 2.1 | 11.4 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Connecticut towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ridgefield | A+ | 0.1 | 2.1 |
| Simsbury | A− | 0.1 | 6.9 |
| South Windsor | B | 0.5 | 14.7 |
| Wethersfield | B | 0.7 | 13.9 |
| East Haven | C+ | 1.0 | 21.0 |
| North Haven | C | 0.3 | 26.1 |
The five graded Connecticut towns closest to Ridgefield’s population (25,373), by grade.
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 Ridgefield. 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 Ridgefield’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (25,387 in 2025); our figure for Ridgefield is 25,373 (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 Ridgefield
Is Ridgefield, CT safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Ridgefield reports less crime per resident than 97% of U.S. towns, an A+ Safety Grade and #3 of 90 in Connecticut. Its police reported 0.1 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 Ridgefield?
0.1 violent and 2.1 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.
Is crime going up or down in Ridgefield?
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings.
How many homicides were there in Ridgefield in 2025?
Ridgefield’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 Ridgefield safer than Wilton?
Wilton reports more crime per resident than Ridgefield: Wilton grades A for safety and Ridgefield A+. Wilton’s police reported 0.2 violent and 6.3 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Ridgefield?
Ridgefield’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Ridgefield Police Department”. 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.