East Bridgewater, MA has a A safety grade (86/100) with a violent crime rate of 123 per 100,000, 65% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
East Bridgewater (14,671 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
East Bridgewater, MA is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 65% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, East Bridgewater, MA shows violent crime at 122.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 231.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 65% 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.
Small-count caution
East Bridgewater reported 18 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 14,671. 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 East Bridgewater's 122.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Brewster (122.6), Chelmsford (122.3), Mendon (123.3), Sutton (124.4). 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 82.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 122.7 in 2024 (+48.3%). The highest observed value was 190.2 in 2021 and the lowest 82.7 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 34.6% of the 52 Part I offenses reported in East Bridgewater for 2024, against a median of 21.4% across comparable Massachusetts cities — a gap of 13.2 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 67.6% of reported property offenses in East Bridgewater, against a cohort median of 78.1%. The remainder is burglary (4) and motor vehicle theft (7). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 122.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, East Bridgewater ranks 177 of 317 — above 140 of the 316 other Massachusetts cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -15.4% 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.
Property counts dominate East Bridgewater'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.
Based on 18 reported violent incidents in a population of 14,671. 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 17.2 Census sq mi, East Bridgewater logged 2 property and 1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
East Bridgewater leans on larceny-theft at 44% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,273.
Violent offenses are 35% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
East Bridgewater offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (17.2 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 | 34 | 231.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 23 | 156.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 7 | 47.7 |
| Burglary | 4 | 27.3 |
| Arson | 1 | 6.8 |
| Violent Crime | 18 | 122.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 17 | 115.9 |
| Rape | 1 | 6.8 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 14,503 | 82.7 | 365.4 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 14,725 | 190.2 | 380.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 14,570 | 151 | 363.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 14,352 | 153.3 | 320.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 14,671 | 122.7 | 231.7 |
East Bridgewater Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind East Bridgewater's 52 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 East Bridgewater in population. Their populations run from 14,215 to 15,008, against 14,671 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
East Bridgewater sits at 122.7/100K violent (grade A); the Massachusetts cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
East Bridgewater at 122.7/100K violent and 231.7/100K property - matched below outside Massachusetts (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
122.7/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
231.7/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, East Bridgewater reported 18 violent crimes and 34 property crimes, for a total of 52 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, East Bridgewater's violent crime rate decreased by 20%, and the property crime rate decreased by 27.7%.
The most common crime type in East Bridgewater is larceny-theft, accounting for 44.2% of all reported crimes (23 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: East Bridgewater 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 East Bridgewater's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 East Bridgewater, MA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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