Framingham, MA has a C safety grade (58/100) with a violent crime rate of 326 per 100,000, 8% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Framingham, MA Crime Rate & Safety
At 73,123 residents, Framingham is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against MA and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Framingham, MA carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 8% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Framingham, MA shows violent crime at 325.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,054.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 8% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
325.5/100K violent
1054.4/100K property
-8% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Framingham, MA
Comparable rate records
Framingham's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Massachusetts cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Framingham's 325.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Freetown (326.6), Plymouth (322.6), Gardner (328.8), Barre (318.9). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Framingham reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Massachusetts cities
At 325.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Framingham ranks 45 of 317 — above 272 of the 316 other Massachusetts cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +126.3% 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.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 54.0% of reported property offenses in Framingham, against a cohort median of 78.1%. The remainder is burglary (274) and motor vehicle theft (81). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 356.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 325.5 in 2024 (-8.6%). The highest observed value was 356.2 in 2020 and the lowest 292.7 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Framingham'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Framingham's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 25 Census sq mi, Framingham logged 30.8 property and 9.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Framingham leans on larceny-theft at 41% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,943.
Violent offenses are 24% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (25 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+10.5%
294.5 → 325.5/100K
Property Crime Rate
-6.5%
1127.1 → 1054.4/100K
Property offenses lead Framingham's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
771
1054.4
1711
Larceny-Theft
416
568.9
-
Burglary
274
374.7
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
81
110.8
-
Arson
2
2.7
-
Violent Crime
238
325.5
352
Aggravated Assault
211
288.6
-
Robbery
20
27.4
-
Rape
7
9.6
-
Murder
0
0
-
Framingham Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Framingham 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
Framingham Police Department
Reporting agency for Framingham NIBRS-participating
Framingham Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Framingham's 1,009 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
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In 2024, Framingham reported 238 violent crimes and 771 property crimes, for a total of 1,009 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Framingham?
From 2023 to 2024, Framingham's violent crime rate increased by 10.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 6.5%.
What is the most common crime in Framingham?
The most common crime type in Framingham is larceny-theft, accounting for 41.2% of all reported crimes (416 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Framingham's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Framingham, MA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.