Photo: Daderot · CC BY-SA 3.0In Rocky Hill, the kinds of crime the grade counts fell 48% per resident from 2023 to 2025
Violent crime is lower than in 79% of U.S. towns; property crime, lower than in only 40%. Weighing it all, Rocky Hill earns B for safety (#52 of 90 graded towns in Connecticut), with close to the middle of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported over 2023 to 2025. What’s more, typical years here bring 0.7 violent crime plus 13.7 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, against 1.5 plus 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 Rocky Hill
1 of the 5 graded towns next door reports less crime
Of the 5 Connecticut towns on Rocky Hill’s borders, 5 have a Safety Grade: Glastonbury (B+), Wethersfield (B), Berlin (B−), Cromwell (C+), Newington (C+). Neighbors ↓
Among Connecticut towns, closer to the middle
Connecticut’s cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Rocky Hill’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 42% of the 90 Connecticut towns we grade, against 55% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A job center
Rocky Hill has 15,840 jobs based in town for 21,575 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
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 Rocky Hill’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds Rocky Hill’s grade up; property crime pulls it down. Its property rate (13.7) is below the FBI’s national estimate (17.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Rocky Hill property | Rest of Connecticut property | Rocky Hill violent | Rest of Connecticut violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 18.4 | 16.7 | 1.4 | 1.7 |
| 2023 | 19.0 | 17.1 | 0.9 | 1.7 |
| 2024 | 12.3 | 15.5 | 0.8 | 1.5 |
| 2025 | 9.9 | 12.6 | 0.4 | 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 | Rocky Hill | Rest of Connecticut | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.4 | 1.7 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.9 | 1.7 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.8 | 1.5 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.4 | 1.2 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Rocky Hill’s police reported 42 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.7 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 Rocky Hill 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.
222 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.
8 violent and 214 property, as reported to the FBI by Rocky Hill’s police.
Eight people died in crashes on Rocky Hill’s roads in 2019–2023
Rocky Hill had 8 fatal crashes in five years, in which eight people died; 1 was a pedestrian. Most of these deaths (4 of 8) were on an Interstate passing through, so they say more about through-traffic than about the town’s own streets.
That is about what is typical for Connecticut towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (7.5 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Rocky Hill’s size would see about 8 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Rocky Hill’s own rate (7.7) 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.
Rocky Hill and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rocky Hill | B | 0.7 | 13.7 |
| Wethersfield | B | 0.7 | 13.9 |
| Glastonbury | B+ | 0.3 | 10.2 |
| Cromwell | C+ | 0.7 | 20.4 |
| Berlin | B− | 0.7 | 16.4 |
| Newington | C+ | 0.7 | 22.6 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Connecticut towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rocky Hill | B | 0.7 | 13.7 |
| Bethel | A | 0.2 | 4.6 |
| New Canaan | A | 0.1 | 6.3 |
| Guilford | B+ | 0.2 | 9.3 |
| Watertown | B | 0.5 | 11.7 |
| Bloomfield | C+ | 0.8 | 21.4 |
The five graded Connecticut towns closest to Rocky Hill’s population (21,575), 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 Rocky Hill. 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 Rocky Hill’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (21,532 in 2025); our figure for Rocky Hill is 21,575 (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 Rocky Hill
Is Rocky Hill, CT safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Rocky Hill reports less crime per resident than 55% of U.S. towns, a B Safety Grade and #52 of 90 in Connecticut. Its police reported 0.7 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 Rocky Hill?
0.7 violent and 13.7 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 Rocky Hill safer than Wethersfield?
Wethersfield reports more crime per resident than Rocky Hill: Wethersfield grades B for safety and Rocky Hill B. Wethersfield’s police reported 0.7 violent and 13.9 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Rocky Hill?
Rocky Hill’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Rocky Hill”. 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.