What is the crime rate in Bennington, VT?

In 2025, the Bennington Police Department reported 83 violent crimes and 243 property crimes to the FBI.

That is 551 violent and 1,612 property crimes per 100,000 of the 15,075 residents it serves.

Across Vermont the rates were 220 and 1,446.

Nationally they were 330 and 1,552.

Figures last updated on November 12, 2026.

Violent per 100,000: 551
Property per 100,000: 1,612
Violent crimes: 83
Property crimes: 243

Crime reported by the Bennington Police Department, 2023 to 2025

Offenses known to law enforcement, reported to the FBI; rates per 100,000 residents of the area the department serves
Year	Violent crimes	Violent per 100,000	Property crimes	Property per 100,000	Residents served
2023	69	451	381	2,488	15,314
2024	60	396	377	2,486	15,165
2025	83	551	243	1,612	15,075

Violent crimes reported went from 69 in 2023 to 83 in 2025.

Property crimes reported went from 381 in 2023 to 243 in 2025.

In a small town a handful of incidents moves these numbers a long way, so one year’s change says little on its own.

Bennington against Vermont and the nation

Crimes per 100,000 residents, 2025
	Violent crime	Property crime
Bennington	551	1,612
Bennington County	262	859
Vermont	220	1,446
United States	330	1,552

These are rates per resident; they are not adjusted for visitors, commuters or the size of the area, which raise or lower a town’s figures without changing anybody’s risk.

Crime reported in places near Bennington, 2025

Each place’s own police department; rates per 100,000 residents served
Place	Distance	Violent per 100,000	Property per 100,000
Bennington	—	551	1,612
Village of Hoosick Falls	7.0 mi	128	479
Village of Cambridge	13 mi	56	389
Williamstown	13 mi	21	569
North Adams	15 mi	1,183	2,543
Wilmington	18 mi	174	87

Neighboring departments count the same offenses the same way, but their areas, populations and visitors differ, so a difference between two towns is a starting point for a question, not an answer.

How to read these numbers

These are offenses known to the police and reported to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program: crimes nobody reported, or that a department did not record, are not in them.

Violent crime is murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault; property crime is burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft and arson.

A department reports the crimes in the area it polices, which can differ from the town’s boundaries, and the FBI estimates the population it serves.

The FBI asks that these figures not be used to rank places or to judge how safe a neighborhood is: crime depends on many local factors, and the counts describe a whole town, not any street or home.

A year is shown only when the department reported all twelve months.

FBI: Uniform Crime Reporting statistics and their proper use

The figures for Bennington include the places inside it that have pages of their own: Bennington (community), North Bennington, Old Bennington.

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