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Safety in Willimantic · Not graded

Crime reported in Willimantic, CT

Willimantic has no FBI crime figures of its own for 2023–2025, so there is nothing to grade it on.

Violent crimes
17
reported to the FBI, 2025
Property crimes
97
reported to the FBI, 2025
Nearest graded town
8 mi
Coventry (A)
1,000 neighbors · one year

For every 1,000 residents, about 5 property crimes reported

And about 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.

Property crime (5.3)Violent crime (0.9)Everyone else

Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Willimantic0.9
Rest of CT1.2
U.S. (FBI)3.3

Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Willimantic5.3
Rest of CT12.6
U.S. (FBI)15.5

Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.

By year

The years Willimantic’s police reported

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents, against the rest of Connecticut. A year the department didn’t report in full is a gap, not a zero.

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YearWillimanticRest of ConnecticutWillimanticRest of Connecticut
20228.816.80.61.7
20239.717.21.21.7
20248.215.51.71.5
20255.312.60.91.2

Crimes per 1,000 residents

What gets reported

114 crimes reported in 2025

17 violent and 97 property, as reported to the FBI by Willimantic’s police.

2025 offenses reported

Larceny / theft87
Burglary3
Vehicle theft7
Aggravated assault11
Robbery2
Rape4
Homicide0
Arson0
17
violent crimes
97
property crimes

Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.

Nearest with figures

The nearest Connecticut towns with a Safety Grade

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

TownGradeDistanceViolentProperty
CoventryA8 mi0.55.0
NorwichB−13 mi2.111.9
VernonB+15 mi0.311.2
PlainfieldA+16 mi0.30.7
ManchesterC+17 mi1.218.9
GlastonburyB+18 mi0.310.2

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

On the roads

Three people died in crashes on Willimantic’s roads in 2019–2023

Willimantic had 3 fatal crashes in five years, in which three people died; 1 was a pedestrian.

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 Willimantic’s size would see about 7 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Willimantic’s own rate (3.3) is context, not a ranking.

3
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
1
pedestrian among them
0
cyclists among them
3.3
per 100,000 a year · Connecticut towns of 5,000–25,000: 7.5

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

Willimantic and its neighbors

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

A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty
Windham———
Mansfield———
CoventryA0.55.0
Columbia———
Lebanon———

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Windham, Mansfield, Columbia and Lebanon have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025.

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.
  • One number for all of Willimantic. 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 Willimantic’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
  • Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (18,463 in 2025); our figure for Willimantic is 18,096 (census survey, 2020–24).
  • 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 Willimantic

Is Willimantic, CT safe?

There is no Safety Grade for Willimantic. Willimantic has no FBI crime figures of its own for 2023–2025, so there is nothing to grade it on. The nearest Connecticut towns with a grade are Coventry (A, 8 mi), Norwich (B−, 13 mi), Vernon (B+, 15 mi).

Who polices Willimantic?

Willimantic’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Willimantic”. 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.