Dr. Andrew Castle House · Photo: Magicpiano · CC BY-SA 4.0For violent crime, Woodbridge beats 90% of U.S. towns per resident
Of the 6 towns on its borders with figures, one records less crime per resident. The crimes the grade counts held steady per resident from 2023 to 2025. Across all the graded crimes, Woodbridge lands on B+ (#35 of 90 graded towns in Connecticut): less crime per resident than 71% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Year on year, 0.3 violent crime and 9.9 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 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 Woodbridge
1 of the 6 graded towns next door reports less crime
Of the 7 Connecticut towns on Woodbridge’s borders, 6 have a Safety Grade: Seymour (A), Ansonia (B−), Derby (C−), Orange (C−), Hamden (D), New Haven (D). Bethany has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025. Neighbors ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Woodbridge’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
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| Year | Woodbridge | Rest of Connecticut | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.1 | 1.7 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.1 | 1.5 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Woodbridge’s police reported 9 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 Woodbridge 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.
How crime in Woodbridge has moved
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| Year | Woodbridge property | Rest of Connecticut property | Woodbridge violent | Rest of Connecticut violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 12.1 | 16.8 | 0.1 | 1.7 |
| 2023 | 9.6 | 17.2 | 0.7 | 1.7 |
| 2024 | 10.3 | 15.5 | 0.1 | 1.5 |
| 2025 | 9.7 | 12.6 | 0.2 | 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.
91 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.
2 violent and 89 property, as reported to the FBI by Woodbridge’s police.
10 people died in crashes on Woodbridge’s roads in 2019–2023
Woodbridge had 9 fatal crashes in five years, in which 10 people died; 1 was a pedestrian.
That is 22.0 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for Connecticut towns of 5,000–25,000 people (7.5, 123 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.
Woodbridge and its neighbors
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Bethany has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025.
Connecticut towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodbridge | B+ | 0.3 | 9.9 |
| Redding | A+ | 0.2 | 3.0 |
| Portland | A | 0.3 | 4.3 |
| Canton | A− | 0.2 | 6.1 |
| Putnam | B+ | 0.8 | 8.1 |
| Groton | B+ | 1.6 | 6.0 |
The five graded Connecticut towns closest to Woodbridge’s population (9,160), 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 Woodbridge. 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 Woodbridge’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (9,148 in 2025); our figure for Woodbridge is 9,160 (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 Woodbridge
Is Woodbridge, CT safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Woodbridge reports less crime per resident than 71% of U.S. towns, a B+ Safety Grade and #35 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 Woodbridge?
0.3 violent and 9.9 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 Woodbridge safer than New Haven?
New Haven reports more crime per resident than Woodbridge: New Haven grades D for safety and Woodbridge B+. New Haven’s police reported 4.9 violent and 34.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Woodbridge?
Woodbridge’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Woodbridge”. 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.