New Canaan Among Top 10 Safest Communities In Connecticut For 2017: Study

When it comes to safety, Connecticut ranks high and was recently named the seventh safest state in the county, according to a Wallethub study. Niche.com has drilled down further and has found what it says are the top 100 safest places to live in Connecticut.

The list has a lot of the usual suspects, with Fairfield County taking seven of the top 10 safest communities to live in Hartford County had two of the top 10, and New Haven County had one town.

Niche.com says that it determined the safest places to live by using crime rates for murder, assault, rape, burglary and other crime statistics from the FBI and U.S. Census.

“The 2017 Safest Places ranking provides a comprehensive assessment of the overall safety in an area. This grade takes into account key indicators of a location's safety, including violent and property crime rates as well as resident reviews, in an attempt to measure an area's safety and security,” Niche.com says.

To review more of the methodology click here.

According to Niche.com the top 5 safest places to live in the entire United States are: 1. Roosevelt Island in New York, 2. Horse Cave in Kentucky, 3. Palmer Lake in Colorado, 4. Mayfield in Pennsylvania, 5. Thomson Township in Minnesota.

No Connecticut community made the national top 100 list. (To sign up for free, local breaking news alerts from more than 100 Connecticut communities click here.)

Here is the Connecticut top 100 list via Niche.com:

1. Easton
2. Madison
3. Bethel
4. Weston
5 Ridgefield
6 Canton
7. Wilton
8. New Canaan
9. Granby
10. Redding
11. Avon
12. Newtown
13. Monroe
14. North Branford
15. Rocky Hill
16. Simsbury
17. Darien
18. Coventry
19. East Hampton
20. Greenwich
21. Suffield
22. Westport
23. Brookfield
24. Cheshire
25. Guilford
26. Thomaston
27. Winchester
28. Middlebury
29. Portland
30. Glastonbury
31. New Milford
32. Old Saybrook
33. Farmington
34. South Windsor
35. Fairfield
36. Plainfield
37. Wolcott
38. Southington
39. Woodbridge
40. Berlin
41. Orange
42. Wallingford
43. Trumbull
44. Cromwell
45. Seymour
46. North Haven
47. Plymouth
48. Shelton
49. Newington
50. Stonington
51. Naugatuck
52. Vernon
53. Windsor
54. West Hartford
55. Branford
56. Windsor Locks
57. Clinton
57. Groton
59. Watertown
60. Milford
61. Wethersfield
62. Enfield
63. South West Neighborhood in Hartford, CT
64. Danbury
65. Putnam
66. Waterford
67. Plainville
68. Stratford
69. Ansonia
70. Middletown
71. Willimantic
72. Bristol
73. Torrington
74. Manchester
75. East Windsor
76. Derby
77. East Haven
78. Stamford
79. Bloomfield
80. Norwalk
81. West Haven
82. Blue Hills, Neighborhood in Hartford, CT
83. Meriden
84. South Meadows, Neighborhood in Hartford, CT
85. Hamden
86. Norwich
87. West End Neighborhood in Hartford, CT
88. East Hartford
89. Behind The Rocks Neighborhood in Hartford, CT
90. Parkville Neighborhood in Hartford, CT
91. New Britain
92. Waterbury
93. New London
94. South End Neighborhood in Hartford, CT
95. South Green Neighborhood in Hartford, CT
96. Bridgeport
97. Asylum Hill Neighborhood in Hartford, CT
98. Barry Square Neighborhood in Hartford, CT
99. New Haven
100. Downtown Neighborhood in Hartford, CT

— By BRIAN MCCREADY (Patch National Staff)

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