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These Fairfield County Locales Rank Among Safest In State

These Fairfield County Locales Rank Among Safest In State

These Fairfield County Locales Rank Among Safest In State A new report from Backgroundchecks.org named several Fairfield County municipalities among the "safest cities" in Connecticut. 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 …

by Donna Christopher

09/02/2019