How Safe is North Branford?

North Branford ranked 27 on a new list highlighting the safest communities in Connecticut.

A study conducted by Value Penguin gave the city the ranking, which included a total of 90 cities.

The town received an overall crime score of 171 while the state average was 336.

The methodology of the study included data from the 2012 FBI Crime in the U.S. Report (although the FBI recently released 2013 statistics). The raw data included violent crimes and property crimes from all law enforcement agencies that participate in the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting program. To calculate the crime score, violent crime was weighted at 90 percent and property crime was weighted at 10 percent.

ValuePenguin describes itself as a website that conducts research, largely on consumer topics, to help people make decisions about automobile insurance, health insurance, credit cards and similar products and services.

Only communities that participate in the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting program were included in the study.

View the full report here to see how other municipalities ranked.

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