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Safest Places to Live in Vermont of February 2025

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Last Update: December 1, 2024 • Living •

Located in the New England region of the northeastern United States, the Green Mountain State is bordered by Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, and the Canadian province of Quebec.

With approximately 624,000 residents, Vermont is the second least populous state, but it is also the sixth smallest state by area. Its capital is Montpelier, while the largest city is Burlington, which has around 43,000 residents. Vermont is well known for its production of maple syrup.

After being home to indigenous people for centuries, Vermont was claimed by the French. After that, it became a British territory and then became an independent state in 1777 during the American Revolutionary War. In 1791, Vermont was the first state to join the Union after the original thirteen colonies.

Ranking Criteria

ElitePersonalFinance extracted the latest data from the FBI crime statistics in the United States. We took violent crime as the main criteria. To get our score, we used this formula:

Crime Score = ( Total Number of Violent Crimes / Population ) * 1,000

This way, safer cities got the lowest score, and those more vulnerable to crimes got higher scores.

The cities that did not report crimes to the FBI and those under 3,000 residents were not included in the list.

10 Safest Places in Vermont of February 2025

Rank:	City:	Population:	Total Number of Crimes:	Crime Score:
1	Shelburne	7 857	1	0,13
2	Stowe	4 452	1	0,22
3	Richmond	4 178	1	0,24
4	Bristol	3 883	1	0,26
5	Norwich	3 307	1	0,30
6	Castleton	4 507	3	0,67
7	Barre Town	7 679	6	0,78
8	Williston	10 026	8	0,80
9	Essex	22 213	19	0,86
10	Windsor	3 324	3	0,90

Crime Score in All Cities in Vermont of February 2025

If your city didn’t make our list, you could see our full list of Vermont cities.

We can’t compare crime rates in small and large cities. That’s why ElitePersonalFinance made a detailed analysis and narrowed the results according to population segments:

Under 3,000 Residents
3,000 – 10,000 Residents
Over 10,000 Residents

(Other sites don’t include places with under 3,000 residents, but we included them.)

These are the results that we got:

Under 3,000 Residents

Rank:	City:	Population:	Total Number of Crimes:	Crime Score:
1	Winhall	731	0	0,00
2	Killington	757	0	0,00
3	Brighton	1 184	0	0,00
4	Bradford	2 701	0	0,00
5	Pittsford	2 786	0	0,00
6	Royalton	2 864	0	0,00
7	Woodstock	2 925	2	0,68
8	Weathersfield	2 753	2	0,73
9	Thetford	2 545	2	0,79
10	Fair Haven	2 554	4	1,57
11	Hardwick	2 852	5	1,75
12	Vergennes	2 596	5	1,93
13	Bellows Falls	2 988	7	2,34
14	Lyndonville	1 160	3	2,59
15	Dover	1 057	3	2,84
16	Berlin	2 789	9	3,23
17	Wilmington	1 801	6	3,33
18	Ludlow	1 876	7	3,73

3,000 – 10,000 Residents

Rank:	City:	Population:	Total Number of Crimes:	Crime Score:
1	Shelburne	7 857	1	0,13
2	Stowe	4 452	1	0,22
3	Richmond	4 178	1	0,24
4	Bristol	3 883	1	0,26
5	Norwich	3 307	1	0,30
6	Castleton	4 507	3	0,67
7	Barre Town	7 679	6	0,78
8	Windsor	3 324	3	0,90
9	Hinesburg	4 601	5	1,09
10	Manchester	4 242	6	1,41
11	Montpelier	7 386	11	1,49
12	Swanton	6 595	10	1,52
13	Brandon	3 744	6	1,60
14	Rutland Town	4 096	7	1,71
15	Middlebury	8 776	16	1,82
16	Chester	3 018	6	1,99
17	Northfield	5 990	13	2,17
18	St. Johnsbury	7 158	17	2,37
19	Morristown	5 465	14	2,56
20	Springfield	8 900	25	2,81
21	Winooski	7 346	23	3,13
22	Hartford	9 654	38	3,94
23	Barre	8 551	64	7,48
24	St. Albans	6 800	51	7,50
25	Newport	4 216	34	8,06

Over 10,000 Residents

Rank:	City:	Population:	Total Number of Crimes:	Crime Score:
1	Williston	10 026	8	0,80
2	Essex	22 213	19	0,86
3	Milton	11 064	11	0,99
4	South Burlington	19 687	22	1,12
5	Colchester	17 548	26	1,48
6	Burlington	42 958	174	4,05
7	Brattleboro	11 401	48	4,21
8	Bennington	14 912	63	4,22
9	Rutland	15 191	67	4,41

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