West End Crime Rate, Boston (2024)
West End is a neighborhood in Boston. Boston's open crime data doesn't include a reliable neighborhood-level population figure, so this page shows reported incident VOLUME relative to other Boston neighborhoods for 2024 — not a population-adjusted safety rate.
Volume, not a safety rate. Boston neighborhood resident population is not reliably available for a per-100k rate, so no safety grade is published for any zone (see /crime-rate/methodology §6.6). The geographic unit is the Boston neighborhood (a policing/analysis boundary, not a resident-population neighborhood). relativeIndex ranks each zone by its VIOLENCE-WEIGHTED reported-incident volume (violent incidents weighted 3x property) against the other Boston zones — it is NOT population-adjusted and must not be read as a safety rate. Offenses are grouped into three coarse buckets (violent / property / other) via a keyword classifier.
Reported crime mix
Reported-incident counts for 2024, grouped violent / property / other via a keyword classifier. A within-zone composition of reported volume — not a population-adjusted rate.
Nearby neighborhoods in Boston
Closest reported-volume to West End.
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Is West End safe?
What is the most common type of crime in West End?
How does West End rank in Boston?
Why isn't there a safety grade for West End?
No area has zero risk
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 2024. See the full methodology →