Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Westport records less violent crime per head than 95% of U.S. towns
Among its 4 neighbors with figures, 2 record less crime per resident. Across all the graded crimes, Westport lands on B+ (#42 of 90 graded towns in Connecticut): less crime per resident than 66% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025. What’s more, the yearly rates were 0.2 violent crime and 12.0 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 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 Westport
2 of the 4 graded towns next door report less crime
Of the 4 Connecticut towns on Westport’s borders, 4 have a Safety Grade: Weston (A+), Wilton (A), Fairfield (B), Norwalk (B). Neighbors ↓
Among Connecticut towns, closer to the middle
Connecticut’s cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Westport’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 53% of the 90 Connecticut towns we grade, against 66% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Westport’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds Westport’s grade up; property crime pulls it down. Its property rate (12.0) 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.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Westport | Rest of Connecticut | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.1 | 1.7 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.2 | 1.7 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.3 | 1.2 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Westport’s police reported 15 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.2 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 Westport 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.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Westport property | Rest of Connecticut property | Westport violent | Rest of Connecticut violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 16.2 | 16.8 | 0.1 | 1.7 |
| 2023 | 11.8 | 17.2 | 0.2 | 1.7 |
| 2024 | 11.3 | 15.5 | 0.0 | 1.5 |
| 2025 | 12.8 | 12.6 | 0.3 | 1.2 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
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.
369 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.
9 violent and 360 property, as reported to the FBI by Westport’s police.
11 people died in crashes on Westport’s roads in 2019–2023
Westport had 11 fatal crashes in five years, in which 11 people died; 3 were pedestrians. 4 died in crashes on an Interstate.
That is 8.0 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, above 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.
Westport and its neighbors
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Connecticut towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westport | B+ | 0.2 | 12.0 |
| New Milford | A− | 0.4 | 5.6 |
| Farmington | B− | 0.3 | 16.0 |
| Branford | B− | 0.6 | 14.9 |
| New London | C+ | 2.0 | 13.5 |
| East Haven | C+ | 1.0 | 21.0 |
The five graded Connecticut towns closest to Westport’s population (28,301), 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 Westport. 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 Westport’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (28,233 in 2025); our figure for Westport is 28,301 (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 Westport
Is Westport, CT safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Westport reports less crime per resident than 66% of U.S. towns, a B+ Safety Grade and #42 of 90 in Connecticut. Its police reported 0.2 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 Westport?
0.2 violent and 12.0 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 Westport in 2025?
Westport’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 Westport safer than Fairfield?
Fairfield reports more crime per resident than Westport: Fairfield grades B for safety and Westport B+. Fairfield’s police reported 0.2 violent and 14.0 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Westport?
Westport’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Westport”. 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.