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Safety in Hartford City · Not graded

Crime reported in Hartford City, IN

Without FBI crime figures of its own for 2023–2025, Hartford City has nothing to grade it on. Gas City, 12 miles away, is the nearest town with a Safety Grade (A−). Within a 25-mile drive lie 4 towns that have a grade.

Violent crimes
23
reported to the FBI, 2022
Property crimes
13
reported to the FBI, 2022
Nearest graded town
12 mi
Gas City (A−)
1,000 neighbors · one year

For every 1,000 residents, about 2 property crimes reported

Property crime (2.1)Violent crime (3.8)Everyone else

Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2022

Hartford City3.8
Rest of IN4.8
U.S. (FBI)4.0

Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2022

Hartford City2.1
Rest of IN23.2
U.S. (FBI)20.0

Crimes reported to police in 2022 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.

And about 4 violent crimes, in 2022. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.

By year

The years Hartford City’s police reported

Show as a table
YearHartford CityRest of IndianaHartford CityRest of Indiana
20222.123.23.84.8
2023not reported22.2not reported4.9
2024not reported20.2not reported4.6
2025not reported15.0not reported3.5

Crimes per 1,000 residents

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

What gets reported

36 crimes reported in 2022

2022 offenses reported

Larceny / theft3
Burglary8
Vehicle theft2
Aggravated assault21
Robbery0
Rape0
Homicide2
Arson0
23
violent crimes
13
property crimes

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

23 violent and 13 property, as reported to the FBI by Hartford City’s police.

Nearest with figures

The nearest Indiana towns with a Safety Grade

TownGradeDistanceViolentProperty
Gas CityA−12 mi0.36.7
MarionC+16 mi1.515.8
MuncieD18 mi5.121.8
BlufftonB23 mi1.86.6
ElwoodA−27 mi1.24.8
AndersonC−30 mi4.123.5

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

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

On the roads

No one died in a crash on Hartford City’s roads in 2019–2023

That is about what is typical for Indiana towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (8.6 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Hartford City’s size would see about 2 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Hartford City’s own rate (0.0) is context, not a ranking.

0
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
0
pedestrians among them
0
cyclists among them
0.0
per 100,000 a year · Indiana towns of 5,000–25,000: 8.6

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

Hartford City and its neighbors

Hartford City
A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

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

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 Hartford City. 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 Hartford City’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
  • Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (6,060 in 2022); our figure for Hartford City is 5,898 (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 Hartford City

Is Hartford City, IN safe?

There is no Safety Grade for Hartford City. Hartford City has no FBI crime figures of its own for 2023–2025, so there is nothing to grade it on. The nearest Indiana towns with a grade are Gas City (A−, 12 mi), Marion (C+, 16 mi), Muncie (D, 18 mi).

Who polices Hartford City?

Hartford City’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Hartford City”. 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, 2022, 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.