Freetown, MA has a B safety grade (64/100) with a violent crime rate of 327 per 100,000, 7% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Freetown is a small municipal reporter (9,493 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with MA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Freetown, MA is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 7% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Freetown, MA shows violent crime at 326.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 453 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 7% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 41.9% of the 74 Part I offenses reported in Freetown for 2024, against a median of 21.4% across comparable Massachusetts cities — a gap of 20.5 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 212.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 326.6 in 2024 (+53.5%). The highest observed value was 326.6 in 2024 and the lowest 177.7 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 326.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Freetown ranks 44 of 317 — above 273 of the 316 other Massachusetts cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +127.1% 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 Freetown's 326.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Framingham (325.5), Gardner (328.8), Plymouth (322.6), 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 67.4% of reported property offenses in Freetown, against a cohort median of 78.1%. The remainder is burglary (10) and motor vehicle theft (4). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Freetown'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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 34.5 Census sq mi, Freetown logged 1.2 property and 0.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Freetown leans on larceny-theft at 39% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,099.
Violent offenses are 42% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small city.
Freetown offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (34.5 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 | 43 | 453 |
| Larceny-Theft | 29 | 305.5 |
| Burglary | 10 | 105.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 4 | 42.1 |
| Arson | 1 | 10.5 |
| Violent Crime | 31 | 326.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 27 | 284.4 |
| Rape | 3 | 31.6 |
| Robbery | 1 | 10.5 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
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 | 9,401 | 212.7 | 414.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 9,567 | 177.7 | 418.1 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 9,247 | 259.5 | 638 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 9,283 | 312.4 | 570.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 9,493 | 326.6 | 453 |
Freetown Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Freetown's 74 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 Freetown in population. Their populations run from 9,139 to 9,721, against 9,493 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Freetown sits at 326.6/100K violent (grade B); the Massachusetts cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Freetown reported 31 violent crimes and 43 property crimes, for a total of 74 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Freetown's violent crime rate increased by 4.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 20.7%.
The most common crime type in Freetown is larceny-theft, accounting for 39.2% of all reported crimes (29 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Freetown is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Freetown's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Freetown, MA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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