Crime Rate in Massachusetts (2025)
The FBI-based Crime Index for 26 cities in Massachusetts, plus the statewide average. Scores run 0–100 (higher = safer) and are built from FBI Crime Data Explorer reports for 2025.
Crime Index
Crime trend in Massachusetts
All 26 cities in Massachusetts
Ranked safest to most dangerous by Crime Index.
- 1WorcesterA264per 100k0.9homicide
- 2NewtonA581per 100k0.0homicide
- 3MethuenA703per 100k1.8homicide
- 4BrooklineA847per 100k1.6homicide
- 5MedfordB1,113per 100k0.0homicide
- 6WeymouthB837per 100k0.0homicide
- 7WalthamB976per 100k0.0homicide
- 8FraminghamB1,042per 100k0.0homicide
- 9MaldenB1,405per 100k0.0homicide
- 10PeabodyB919per 100k0.0homicide
- 11HaverhillB1,003per 100k0.0homicide
- 12SomervilleB1,775per 100k0.0homicide
- 13RevereB1,422per 100k0.0homicide
- 14LawrenceB1,260per 100k2.2homicide
- 15QuincyB1,499per 100k1.0homicide
- 16EverettB1,592per 100k0.0homicide
- 17TauntonC1,437per 100k1.6homicide
- 18New BedfordC1,901per 100k4.0homicide
- 19ChicopeeC1,883per 100k3.6homicide
- 20LowellC1,896per 100k1.6homicide
- 21LynnC1,668per 100k3.9homicide
- 22BrocktonC1,941per 100k7.6homicide
- 23CambridgeC3,037per 100k1.6homicide
- 24BostonD2,496per 100k3.6homicide
- 25Fall RiverD2,324per 100k3.2homicide
- 26SpringfieldE3,327per 100k11.0homicide
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A high Crime Index score means lower reported crime relative to other US cities — it is not a guarantee of safety. Reported crime is not the same as actual crime. Research on the gap between crime that occurs and crime that gets reported to police — often called the "dark figure" of crime — estimates that roughly 40% of violent crime and about a third of property crime go unreported each year. Every index built on official statistics, including this one, necessarily undercounts real crime. That gap is exactly why homicide — the offense with the smallest dark figure — anchors the calculation instead of a more commonly reported but less reliable category like theft.
Scores on this page reflect FBI-reported data for 2025. See the full methodology →