East Providence, RI has a A safety grade (87/100) with a violent crime rate of 74 per 100,000, 79% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
East Providence (47,555 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then RI and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
East Providence, RI carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 79% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, East Providence, RI shows violent crime at 73.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 681.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 79% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 235.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 73.6 in 2024 (-68.8%). The highest observed value was 235.6 in 2020 and the lowest 66.4 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to East Providence's 73.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Barrington (75.2), Coventry (68.7), Tiverton (68.0), 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 73.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, East Providence ranks 17 of 35 — above 18 of the 34 other Rhode Island cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +7.7% 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 East Providence'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.
Across 13.3 Census sq mi, East Providence logged 24.4 property and 2.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
East Providence's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (72% of 359 offenses; mix index 5,376).
Violent offenses are only 10% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
East Providence offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (13.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 324 | 681.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 258 | 542.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 37 | 77.8 |
| Burglary | 29 | 61 |
| Arson | 2 | 4.2 |
| Violent Crime | 35 | 73.6 |
| Rape | 18 | 37.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 13 | 27.3 |
| Robbery | 4 | 8.4 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 47,542 | 235.6 | 746.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 49,064 | 134.5 | 723.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 46,655 | 66.4 | 850.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 46,663 | 94.3 | 900.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 47,555 | 73.6 | 681.3 |
East Providence Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind East Providence's 359 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 Rhode Island cities closest to East Providence in population. Their populations run from 24,957 to 43,776, against 47,555 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
East Providence sits at 73.6/100K violent (grade A); the Rhode Island cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
East Providence at 73.6/100K violent and 681.3/100K property - matched below outside Rhode Island (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
73.6/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
681.3/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-22% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, East Providence reported 35 violent crimes and 324 property crimes, for a total of 359 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, East Providence's violent crime rate decreased by 22%, and the property crime rate decreased by 24.3%.
The most common crime type in East Providence is larceny-theft, accounting for 71.9% of all reported crimes (258 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: East Providence 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 Providence's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 East Providence, RI 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 Providence is scored in the mid-size municipal band (47,555 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.