East Brookfield, MA has a B safety grade (62/100) with a violent crime rate of 358 per 100,000, 2% above the national average.
East Brookfield's UCR row covers a small municipal population (2,236). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to MA and U.S. averages.
East Brookfield, MA carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 2% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, East Brookfield, MA shows violent crime at 357.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 268.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 2% above 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.
The verdict
East Brookfield earns a B safety grade: violent crime runs 2% above the U.S. average, placing it higher-crime than most U.S. cities.
Based on 8 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,236. 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 57.1% of the 14 Part I offenses reported in East Brookfield for 2024, against a median of 21.4% across comparable Massachusetts cities — a gap of 35.8 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 181.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 357.8 in 2024 (+96.8%). The highest observed value was 498.2 in 2022 and the lowest 90.7 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
East Brookfield reported 8 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 2,236. 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 357.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, East Brookfield ranks 39 of 317 — above 278 of the 316 other Massachusetts cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +148.8% 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
The nearest comparable 2024 records to East Brookfield's 357.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are New Bedford (353.2), Oak Bluffs (364.8), Southbridge (366.5), Everett (347.9). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 50.0% of reported property offenses in East Brookfield, against a cohort median of 78.1%. The remainder is burglary (2) and motor vehicle theft (1). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
East Brookfield'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 8 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,236. 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.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Violent Crime | 8 | 357.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 6 | 268.3 |
| Rape | 1 | 44.7 |
| Robbery | 1 | 44.7 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Property Crime | 6 | 268.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 3 | 134.2 |
| Burglary | 2 | 89.4 |
| Arson | 2 | 89.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 44.7 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 2,200 | 181.8 | 181.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 2,215 | 135.4 | 270.9 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 2,208 | 498.2 | 362.3 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 2,204 | 90.7 | 181.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 2,236 | 357.8 | 268.3 |
East Brookfield's crime figures on this page originate from East Brookfield Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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 Brookfield in population. Their populations run from 1,876 to 2,608, against 2,236 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
These Massachusetts cities report the closest violent-crime rates to East Brookfield's 357.8/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Micro-municipal read: East Brookfield's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how East Brookfield's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 East Brookfield, MA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. East Brookfield is scored as a small municipal UCR reporter (2,236 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.