Cranston, RI has a A safety grade (82/100) with a violent crime rate of 93 per 100,000, 74% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Cranston, RI Crime Rate & Safety
At 83,815 residents, Cranston is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against RI and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Cranston, RI carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 74% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Cranston, RI shows violent crime at 93.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,052.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 74% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
A safety grade
93.1/100K violent
1052.3/100K property
-74% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Cranston, RI
Comparable rate records
Cranston's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Rhode Island cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Cranston's 93.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Lincoln (85.8), Narragansett (82.2), North Providence (104.8), Warwick (79.5). 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 lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 139.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 93.1 in 2024 (-33.0%). The highest observed value was 139.0 in 2020 and the lowest 93.1 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Cranston sits mid-pack among comparable Rhode Island cities
At 93.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Cranston ranks 12 of 35 — above 23 of the 34 other Rhode Island cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +36.1% against the cohort median of 68.4. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property counts dominate Cranston'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.
Cranston's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 28.3 Census sq mi, Cranston logged 31.1 property and 2.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Cranston's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (76% of 960 offenses; mix index 5,996).
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (28.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-20.8%
117.6 → 93.1/100K
Property Crime Rate
-8%
1143.3 → 1052.3/100K
Property offenses lead Cranston's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
882
1052.3
1711
Larceny-Theft
734
875.7
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
79
94.3
-
Burglary
69
82.3
-
Arson
11
13.1
-
Violent Crime
78
93.1
352
Aggravated Assault
47
56.1
-
Rape
17
20.3
-
Robbery
13
15.5
-
Murder
1
1.2
-
Cranston Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Cranston 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
Cranston Police Department
Reporting agency for Cranston NIBRS-participating
Cranston Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Cranston's 960 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 Rhode Island
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Rhode Island cities closest to Cranston in population. Their populations run from 31,675 to 84,297, against 83,815 here. Or use our
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Cranston at 93.1/100K violent and 1,052.3/100K property - matched below outside Rhode Island (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Cranston reported 78 violent crimes and 882 property crimes, for a total of 960 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Cranston?
From 2023 to 2024, Cranston's violent crime rate decreased by 20.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 8%.
What is the most common crime in Cranston?
The most common crime type in Cranston is larceny-theft, accounting for 76.5% of all reported crimes (734 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Cranston'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 Cranston, RI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.