Dudley, MA has a A safety grade (85/100) with a violent crime rate of 141 per 100,000, 60% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Dudley (12,053 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then MA and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Dudley, MA is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 60% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Dudley, MA shows violent crime at 141 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 149.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 60% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 48.6% of the 35 Part I offenses reported in Dudley for 2024, against a median of 21.4% across comparable Massachusetts cities — a gap of 27.2 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.
Small-count caution
Dudley reported 17 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 12,053. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Dudley's 141.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are West Bridgewater (140.7), Lancaster (142.8), North Andover (138.6), Danvers (137.4). 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
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 178.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 141.0 in 2024 (-21.1%). The highest observed value was 203.8 in 2021 and the lowest 141.0 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 61.1% of reported property offenses in Dudley, against a cohort median of 78.1%. The remainder is burglary (7) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 141.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Dudley ranks 161 of 317 — above 156 of the 316 other Massachusetts cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -2.8% against the cohort median of 145.1. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Dudley's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row keeps violent and property totals in a closer balance. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Based on 17 reported violent incidents in a population of 12,053. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 20.8 Census sq mi, Dudley logged 0.9 property and 0.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Dudley leans on aggravated assault at 37% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,857.
Violent offenses are 49% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a mid-size city.
Dudley offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (20.8 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 18 | 149.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 11 | 91.3 |
| Burglary | 7 | 58.1 |
| Arson | 1 | 8.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 17 | 141 |
| Aggravated Assault | 13 | 107.9 |
| Rape | 3 | 24.9 |
| Robbery | 1 | 8.3 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 11,745 | 178.8 | 306.5 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 11,778 | 203.8 | 271.7 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 11,914 | 176.3 | 209.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 11,864 | 168.6 | 202.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 12,053 | 141 | 149.3 |
Dudley Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Dudley's 35 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Massachusetts cities closest to Dudley in population. Their populations run from 11,824 to 12,343, against 12,053 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Dudley sits at 141/100K violent (grade A); the Massachusetts cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Dudley at 141/100K violent and 149.3/100K property - matched below outside Massachusetts (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
141/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
149.3/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Dudley reported 17 violent crimes and 18 property crimes, for a total of 35 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Dudley's violent crime rate decreased by 16.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 26.2%.
The most common crime type in Dudley is aggravated assault, accounting for 37.1% of all reported crimes (13 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Dudley 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Dudley's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Dudley, MA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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