Crime rates for Old Saybrook, CT

Old Saybrook has an overall crime rate of 24 per 1,000 residents, making the crime rate here near the average for all cities and towns of all sizes in America. According to our analysis of FBI crime data, your chance of becoming a victim of crime in Old Saybrook is 1 in 42. How does Old Saybrook fare compared to other communities in Connecticut of all population sizes? Old Saybrook's crime rate is lower than approximately 30% of Connecticut communities.

How does the crime rate in Old Saybrook compare to similar sized town across America? When NeighborhoodScout compared Old Saybrook with other communities its size, we found that the crime rate was near the average for all other communities of similar size. So, whether Old Saybrook's crime rate is high or low compared to all places in the US, when we control for population size and compare it to places that are similar in size, it is near the middle of the pack in crime rate – not much more or less dangerous, and about what we would expect from the statistics.

The crime data that NeighborhoodScout used for this analysis are the seven offenses from the uniform crime reports, collected by the FBI from 17,000 local law enforcement agencies, and include both violent and property crimes, combined.

Now let us turn to take a look at how Old Saybrook does for violent crimes specifically, and then how it does for property crimes. This is important because the overall crime rate can be further illuminated by understanding if violent crime or property crimes (or both) are the major contributors to the general rate of crime in Old Saybrook.

For Old Saybrook, NeighborhoodScout found that the violent crime rate is well below the national average for all communities of all population sizes. Violent crimes such as assault, rape, murder and armed robbery happen less often in Old Saybrook than in most of America. One's chance of becoming a victim of a violent crime here is one in 3456, which is a violent crime rate of 0 per one thousand inhabitants.

Significantly, based on the number of murders reported by the FBI and the number of residents living in the town, NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that Old Saybrook experiences one of the higher murder rates in the nation when compared with cities and towns for all sizes of population, from the largest to the smallest.

Moreover, the rate of property crime in Old Saybrook – burglary, larceny ($50 or more), grand theft auto, and arson – is 23 per 1,000 residents. This is about average for all cities and towns in America of all population sizes.