Brockton, MA has a D safety grade (29/100) with a violent crime rate of 599 per 100,000, 70% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Brockton, MA Crime Rate & Safety
At 106,650 residents, Brockton is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against MA and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Brockton, MA is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns a D PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 70% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Brockton, MA shows violent crime at 599.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,345.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 70% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
D safety grade
599.2/100K violent
1345.5/100K property
+70% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Brockton, MA
Position in the state cohort
Brockton reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Massachusetts cities
At 599.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Brockton ranks 11 of 317 — above 306 of the 316 other Massachusetts cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +316.6% against the cohort median of 143.8. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Comparable rate records
Brockton's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Massachusetts cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Brockton's 599.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Lynn (574.6), Boston (627.9), Chicopee (566.6), Webster (637.7). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 55.8% of reported property offenses in Brockton, against a cohort median of 78.1%. The remainder is burglary (249) and motor vehicle theft (385). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 30.8% of the 2,074 Part I offenses reported in Brockton for 2024, against a median of 21.4% across comparable Massachusetts cities — a gap of 9.4 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 796.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 599.2 in 2024 (-24.7%). The highest observed value was 796.0 in 2020 and the lowest 599.2 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Brockton's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Brockton's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 21.3 Census sq mi, Brockton logged 67.3 property and 30 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Brockton leans on larceny-theft at 39% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,564.
Violent offenses are 31% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (21.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-35.1%
2073.6 → 1345.5/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-10%
665.5 → 599.2/100K
Property offenses lead Brockton's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,435
1345.5
1711
Larceny-Theft
801
751.1
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
385
361
-
Burglary
249
233.5
-
Arson
16
15
-
Violent Crime
639
599.2
352
Aggravated Assault
491
460.4
-
Robbery
72
67.5
-
Rape
68
63.8
-
Murder
8
7.5
-
Brockton Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Brockton property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Brockton Police Department
Reporting agency for Brockton NIBRS-participating
Brockton Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Brockton's 2,074 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Similar-Size Cities in Massachusetts
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In 2024, Brockton reported 639 violent crimes and 1,435 property crimes, for a total of 2,074 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Brockton?
From 2023 to 2024, Brockton's violent crime rate decreased by 10%, and the property crime rate decreased by 35.1%.
What is the most common crime in Brockton?
The most common crime type in Brockton is larceny-theft, accounting for 38.6% of all reported crimes (801 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Brockton's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Brockton, MA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.