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
Reported crime by offense
Statewide rates per 100,000 residents vs the US average.
Each bar is scaled to the US average for that offense — the dashed line marks 1×. Bars past it run above the national norm; hover a row for detail.
Violent crime
- Massachusetts
- 1.3 /100k · 96 total
- US average
- 4.1 /100k
- Massachusetts
- 26.4 /100k · 1,890 total
- US average
- 35.2 /100k
- Massachusetts
- 31.5 /100k · 2,253 total
- US average
- 47.9 /100k
- Massachusetts
- 225 /100k · 16,100 total
- US average
- 228 /100k
Property crime
- Massachusetts
- 107 /100k · 7,648 total
- US average
- 187 /100k
- Massachusetts
- 799 /100k · 57,186 total
- US average
- 1,099 /100k
- Massachusetts
- 83.2 /100k · 5,954 total
- US average
- 192 /100k
- Massachusetts
- 4.4 /100k · 314 total
- US average
- 9.4 /100k
How Massachusetts compares
Massachusetts against the US average for 2025.
| Metric | Massachusetts | United States |
|---|---|---|
| Crime Index (higher = safer) | 79B | 73C |
| Violent crime /100k | 284 | 315 |
| Property crime /100k | 994 | 1,487 |
| Homicide /100k | 1.3 | 4.1 |
| Total reported /100k | 1,278 | 1,802 |
Grade shown per index band (88–100 = A … 0–29 = F). Rates are reported offenses per 100,000 residents.
Reported crime rate since 2021
Reported crime rate since 2021
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 →