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Safety in Conway · FBI data, 2023–2025

Reported crime per resident in Conway fell 34% from 2023 to 2025

Overall, Conway grades C for safety (#117 of 124 graded towns in New Hampshire): more crime per resident than 66% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported to the FBI in 2023–2025.

Violent crime
1.6
per 1,000 a year · Above rest of NH (1.1)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 3.6
Property crime
19.6
per 1,000 a year · Well above rest of NH (8.8)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 17.6
Crimes reported
662
49 violent · 613 property
2023–2025
Trend
▼ Falling
2023 to 2025
beyond ordinary swings

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of NH” is every other New Hampshire 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 · In brief

What stands out about safety in Conway

2 of the 2 graded towns next door report less crime

Of the 2 New Hampshire towns on Conway’s borders, 2 have a Safety Grade: Madison (A), Bartlett (B+). Neighbors ↓

Among New Hampshire towns, lower

New Hampshire’s cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Conway’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 6% of the 124 New Hampshire towns we grade, against 34% nationally. Safety Grade ↓

A job center

Conway has 6,553 jobs based in town for 10,308 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.

Safety Grade

What’s behind Conway’s grade

Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds Conway’s grade up; property crime pulls it down.

Where Conway sits
B− Violent 1.6C− Property 19.6
All U.S. towns we grade (7,426)Less crime than 34%
More reported crimeLess reported crime
New Hampshire towns we grade (124)Less crime than 6% · #117 of 124
Places of 5,000–25,000 people (3,282)Less crime than 33%
A fairly firm grade. Built on 662 reported crimes over three years. Ordinary swings could put Conway anywhere from C to C+.
A note on the data.2023 figures come from the FBI's Crime Data Explorer; the FBI's published 2023 table doesn't include this department; the grade uses the figures as published.

How TownRatings grades safety →

Trend

Reported crime is falling

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 New Hampshire.

Show as a table
YearConway propertyRest of New Hampshire propertyConway violentRest of New Hampshire violent
202220.710.31.61.3
202322.69.01.51.1
202421.59.12.01.0
202514.78.21.21.1

Crimes per 1,000 residents

Violent crime

Violent crime, by year and by type

Conway’s police reported 49 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.6 per 1,000 residents a year, against 1.1 in the rest of New Hampshire and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.

1,000 neighbors · one year

For every 1,000 residents, about 15 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 (14.7)Violent crime (1.2)Everyone else

Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Conway1.2
Rest of NH1.1
U.S. (FBI)3.3

Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Conway14.7
Rest of NH8.2
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.

What gets reported

165 crimes reported in 2025

12 violent and 153 property, as reported to the FBI by Conway’s police.

2025 offenses reported

Larceny / theft146
Burglary4
Vehicle theft3
Aggravated assault5
Robbery3
Rape4
Homicide0
Arson0
12
violent crimes
153
property crimes

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

On the roads

11 people died in crashes on Conway’s roads in 2019–2023

Conway had 11 fatal crashes in five years, in which 11 people died; 4 were pedestrians.

That is 21.7 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for New Hampshire towns of 5,000–25,000 people (6.6, 75 towns).

11
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
4
pedestrians among them
0
cyclists among them
21.7
per 100,000 a year · New Hampshire towns of 5,000–25,000: 6.6

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

Conway 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
ConwayC1.619.6
BartlettB+0.97.3
MadisonA0.42.7

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

New Hampshire towns of a similar size

TownGradeViolentProperty
ConwayC1.619.6
BarringtonA0.43.2
NewmarketA0.53.3
WeareA1.01.6
RaymondA0.73.6
BerlinC+2.113.7

The five graded New Hampshire towns closest to Conway’s population (10,308), by grade.

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 Conway. 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 Conway’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
  • Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (10,413 in 2025); our figure for Conway is 10,308 (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 Conway

Is Conway, NH safe?

On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Conway reports more crime per resident than 66% of U.S. towns, a C Safety Grade and #117 of 124 in New Hampshire. Its police reported 1.6 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 1.1 in the rest of New Hampshire and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.

What is the crime rate in Conway?

1.6 violent and 19.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of New Hampshire reports 1.1 and 8.8; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.

Is crime going up or down in Conway?

Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings.

Is Conway safer than Bartlett?

Bartlett reports less crime per resident than Conway: Bartlett grades B+ for safety and Conway C. Bartlett’s police reported 0.9 violent and 7.3 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

Who polices Conway?

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