Falmouth, MA is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 19% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Falmouth, MA shows violent crime at 283.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 841.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 19% 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
283.4/100K violent
841.3/100K property
-19% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Falmouth, MA
Comparable rate records
Falmouth's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Massachusetts cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Falmouth's 283.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Braintree (284.5), Foxborough (282.0), Milford (285.7), Agawam (287.0). 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
Falmouth reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Massachusetts cities
At 283.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Falmouth ranks 62 of 317 — above 255 of the 316 other Massachusetts cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +97.0% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 25.2% of the 381 Part I offenses reported in Falmouth for 2024, against a median of 21.4% across comparable Massachusetts cities — a gap of 3.8 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 292.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 283.4 in 2024 (-3.1%). The highest observed value was 332.1 in 2021 and the lowest 242.1 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Falmouth'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.
Falmouth's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 44.1 Census sq mi, Falmouth logged 6.5 property and 2.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Falmouth leans on larceny-theft at 57% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,875.
Violent offenses are 25% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (44.1 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
+12.8%
746 → 841.3/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-2.1%
289.4 → 283.4/100K
Property offenses lead Falmouth's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
285
841.3
1711
Larceny-Theft
217
640.6
-
Burglary
56
165.3
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
12
35.4
-
Arson
1
3
-
Violent Crime
96
283.4
352
Aggravated Assault
74
218.4
-
Rape
20
59
-
Robbery
2
5.9
-
Murder
0
0
-
Falmouth Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Falmouth 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
Falmouth Police Department
Reporting agency for Falmouth NIBRS-participating
Falmouth Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Falmouth's 381 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 Falmouth in population. Their populations run from 31,973 to 34,992, against 33,877 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Falmouth reported 96 violent crimes and 285 property crimes, for a total of 381 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Falmouth?
From 2023 to 2024, Falmouth's violent crime rate decreased by 2.1%, and the property crime rate increased by 12.8%.
What is the most common crime in Falmouth?
The most common crime type in Falmouth is larceny-theft, accounting for 57.0% of all reported crimes (217 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Falmouth 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 Falmouth, MA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.