Photo: Ascended Dreamer · CC BY-SA 4.0On property crime, St. Johnsbury has a higher rate per resident than four in five U.S. towns
The crimes the grade counts fell 41% per resident from 2023 to 2025. By contrast, it grades C− for safety on crimes St. Johnsbury’s police reported from 2023 to 2025: #25 of 38 graded towns in Vermont. In a usual year, 3.1 violent crimes and 22.8 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the rest of Vermont, 2.7 and 24.7.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of VT” is every other Vermont 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 St. Johnsbury
Among Vermont towns, closer to the middle
Vermont’s cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so St. Johnsbury’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 34% of the 38 Vermont towns we grade, against 21% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
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.
What’s behind St. Johnsbury’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 higher than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its violent rate (3.1) is below the FBI’s national estimate (3.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | St. Johnsbury property | Rest of Vermont property | St. Johnsbury violent | Rest of Vermont violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 36.7 | 26.3 | 3.5 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 29.8 | 27.8 | 4.7 | 2.6 |
| 2024 | 19.8 | 24.0 | 3.0 | 2.7 |
| 2025 | 18.7 | 22.2 | 1.8 | 2.7 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
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 Vermont.
Crime in St. Johnsbury 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 about 2 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | St. Johnsbury | Rest of Vermont | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3.5 | 2.9 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 4.7 | 2.6 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 3.0 | 2.7 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.8 | 2.7 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
St. Johnsbury’s police reported 70 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 3.1 per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.7 in the rest of Vermont and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
151 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.
13 violent and 138 property, as reported to the FBI by St. Johnsbury’s police.
Four people died in crashes on St. Johnsbury’s roads in 2019–2023
St. Johnsbury had 4 fatal crashes in five years, in which four people died. 1 died in crash on an Interstate.
That is more than is typical for Vermont towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (3.9 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of St. Johnsbury’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so St. Johnsbury’s own rate (10.9) is context, not a ranking.
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.
St. Johnsbury and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Johnsbury | C− | 3.1 | 22.8 |
| Danville | — | — | — |
| Lyndon | — | — | — |
| Waterford | — | — | — |
| Barnet | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Danville, Lyndon, Waterford and Barnet have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025.
Vermont towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Johnsbury | C− | 3.1 | 22.8 |
| Shelburne | B− | 0.6 | 14.5 |
| Montpelier | C− | 2.9 | 23.2 |
| Winooski | C− | 3.3 | 26.8 |
| Barre | D | 5.5 | 32.8 |
| St. Albans | D− | 8.3 | 82.4 |
The five graded Vermont towns closest to St. Johnsbury’s population (7,354), 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 St. Johnsbury. 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 St. Johnsbury’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (7,398 in 2025); our figure for St. Johnsbury is 7,354 (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 St. Johnsbury
Is St. Johnsbury, VT safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, St. Johnsbury reports more crime per resident than 79% of U.S. towns, a C− Safety Grade and #25 of 38 in Vermont. Its police reported 3.1 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 2.7 in the rest of Vermont and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in St. Johnsbury?
3.1 violent and 22.8 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Vermont reports 2.7 and 24.7; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Who polices St. Johnsbury?
St. Johnsbury’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “St. Johnsbury”. 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.