Chicopee, MA has a D safety grade (28/100) with a violent crime rate of 567 per 100,000, 61% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Chicopee, MA Crime Rate & Safety
At 55,770 residents, Chicopee 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.
Chicopee, MA is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns a D PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 61% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Chicopee, MA shows violent crime at 566.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,760.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 61% 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
566.6/100K violent
1760.8/100K property
+61% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Chicopee, MA
Position in the state cohort
Chicopee reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Massachusetts cities
At 566.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Chicopee ranks 13 of 317 — above 304 of the 316 other Massachusetts cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +294.0% 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
Chicopee's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Massachusetts cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Chicopee's 566.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Lynn (574.6), Brockton (599.2), Lowell (532.5), Pittsfield (511.3). 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 539.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 566.6 in 2024 (+5.1%). The highest observed value was 579.5 in 2023 and the lowest 482.5 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Chicopee'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.
Chicopee's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 22.9 Census sq mi, Chicopee logged 42.9 property and 13.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Chicopee leans on larceny-theft at 58% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,860.
Violent offenses are 24% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (22.9 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
-5.2%
1856.7 → 1760.8/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-2.2%
579.5 → 566.6/100K
Property offenses lead Chicopee's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs MA
Property Crime
982
1760.8
1101.2
Larceny-Theft
750
1344.8
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
119
213.4
-
Burglary
113
202.6
-
Arson
2
3.6
-
Violent Crime
316
566.6
308.8
Aggravated Assault
241
432.1
-
Rape
48
86.1
-
Robbery
23
41.2
-
Murder
4
7.2
-
Chicopee Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Chicopee 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
Chicopee Police Department
Reporting agency for Chicopee NIBRS-participating
Chicopee Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Chicopee's 1,298 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
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Massachusetts cities closest to Chicopee in population. Their populations run from 50,928 to 61,874, against 55,770 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Chicopee reported 316 violent crimes and 982 property crimes, for a total of 1,298 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Chicopee?
From 2023 to 2024, Chicopee's violent crime rate decreased by 2.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 5.2%.
What is the most common crime in Chicopee?
The most common crime type in Chicopee is larceny-theft, accounting for 57.8% of all reported crimes (750 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Chicopee'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 Chicopee, MA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.