Dartmouth, MA is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 29% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Dartmouth, MA shows violent crime at 250.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,095.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 29% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
B safety grade
250.1/100K violent
1095.1/100K property
-29% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Dartmouth, MA
Comparable rate records
Dartmouth's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Massachusetts cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Dartmouth's 250.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Saugus (250.2), Waltham (252.0), Tewksbury (254.5), Peabody (254.7). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Dartmouth reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Massachusetts cities
At 250.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Dartmouth ranks 77 of 317 — above 240 of the 316 other Massachusetts cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +73.9% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 214.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 250.1 in 2024 (+16.4%). The highest observed value was 260.3 in 2022 and the lowest 166.9 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 89.2% of reported property offenses in Dartmouth, against a cohort median of 78.1%. The remainder is burglary (25) and motor vehicle theft (16). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Dartmouth'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Dartmouth's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 60.9 Census sq mi, Dartmouth logged 6.3 property and 1.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Dartmouth's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (73% of 468 offenses; mix index 5,549).
Violent offenses are 19% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (60.9 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+6.9%
234 → 250.1/100K
Property Crime Rate
-5.2%
1155.7 → 1095.1/100K
Property offenses lead Dartmouth's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
381
1095.1
1711
Larceny-Theft
340
977.2
-
Burglary
25
71.9
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
16
46
-
Arson
4
11.5
-
Violent Crime
87
250.1
352
Aggravated Assault
70
201.2
-
Rape
10
28.7
-
Robbery
7
20.1
-
Murder
0
0
-
Dartmouth Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Dartmouth 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
Dartmouth Police Department
Reporting agency for Dartmouth NIBRS-participating
Dartmouth Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Dartmouth's 468 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 Dartmouth in population. Their populations run from 32,779 to 36,795, against 34,792 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Dartmouth reported 87 violent crimes and 381 property crimes, for a total of 468 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Dartmouth?
From 2023 to 2024, Dartmouth's violent crime rate increased by 6.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 5.2%.
What is the most common crime in Dartmouth?
The most common crime type in Dartmouth is larceny-theft, accounting for 72.6% of all reported crimes (340 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Dartmouth figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Dartmouth, MA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.