These Fairfield County Locales Rank Among Safest In State

Background Checks analyzed the most recent FBI crime report and put together this resource, which shows that Connecticut is home to some of the country's safest communities.

The state's second safest city is Greenwich which has a violent crime rate of 34 per 1,000 and a property crime rate of 7.53 per 1,000, some of the lowest crime rates in the country for a community its size, according to the report.

New Canaan came in third on the list. The town of 20,364 recorded just two violent crimes in 2017, said Background Checks.

The rankings for Fairfield County are as follows:

2. Greenwich

3. New Canaan 

4. Monroe

5. Brookfield 

6. Westport 

7. Wilton 

10. Darien 

11. Bethel 

13. Ridgefield 

22. Newtown 

27. Weston 

43. New Milford 

56. Fairfield

60. Shelton 

61. Stamford

63. Trumbull 

71. Norwalk

72. Danbury

83. Bridgeport 

Full list

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