Brookline, MA Crime Rate & Safety

FBI UCR Data Snapshot: Brookline, MA

Brookline, MA — reporting population 64,122 in 2024 — recorded 64 violent crimes and 574 property crimes in the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program's Table 8 city-level submissions. The city's violent crime rate works out to 99.8 per 100,000 residents, while the property crime rate reaches 895.2 per 100,000. Combining those two rates against national benchmarks yields a composite safety grade of F (High Risk), scoring 21 out of 100.

Within the violent crime count, aggravated assault accounted for 51 incidents, robbery 10, murder 0, and rape 3 in 2024. Property crime splits into larceny-theft (503), burglary (55), motor vehicle theft (16), and arson (1). Larceny-theft and other property offenses typically dominate city crime counts, and larceny-theft leads Brookline's mix at 78.8% of all Part I offenses.

Against the national violent crime average, Brookline runs 41% above the US benchmark, and 68% below the Massachusetts statewide rate. Translated to per-capita risk, the 2024 figures imply roughly a 1 in 101 statistical chance of being named in a crime report that year, narrowing to 1 in 1,002 for a violent offense. UCR figures reflect offenses reported to and submitted by local law enforcement and may undercount unreported crime.