Haverhill, MA has a C safety grade (51/100) with a violent crime rate of 411 per 100,000, 17% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Haverhill, MA Crime Rate & Safety
At 68,602 residents, Haverhill 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.
Haverhill, MA is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 17% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Haverhill, MA shows violent crime at 411.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 924.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 17% above 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
411.1/100K violent
924.2/100K property
+17% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Haverhill, MA
Position in the state cohort
Haverhill reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Massachusetts cities
At 411.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Haverhill ranks 30 of 317 — above 287 of the 316 other Massachusetts cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +185.8% 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
Haverhill's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Massachusetts cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Haverhill's 411.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Barnstable (410.4), Auburn (408.8), West Springfield (415.3), Marlborough (421.2). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 30.8% of the 916 Part I offenses reported in Haverhill for 2024, against a median of 21.4% across comparable Massachusetts cities — a gap of 9.4 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 474.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 411.1 in 2024 (-13.4%). The highest observed value was 579.0 in 2022 and the lowest 411.1 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Haverhill'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.
Haverhill's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 33 Census sq mi, Haverhill logged 19.2 property and 8.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Haverhill's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (57% of 916 offenses; mix index 4,193).
Violent offenses are 31% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (33 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
-19.5%
510.9 → 411.1/100K
Property Crime Rate
+10.8%
834.2 → 924.2/100K
Property offenses lead Haverhill's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
634
924.2
1711
Larceny-Theft
523
762.4
-
Burglary
80
116.6
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
31
45.2
-
Arson
6
8.7
-
Violent Crime
282
411.1
352
Aggravated Assault
266
387.7
-
Robbery
9
13.1
-
Rape
7
10.2
-
Murder
0
0
-
Haverhill Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Haverhill 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
Haverhill Police Department
Reporting agency for Haverhill NIBRS-participating
Haverhill Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Haverhill's 916 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, Haverhill reported 282 violent crimes and 634 property crimes, for a total of 916 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Haverhill?
From 2023 to 2024, Haverhill's violent crime rate decreased by 19.5%, and the property crime rate increased by 10.8%.
What is the most common crime in Haverhill?
The most common crime type in Haverhill is larceny-theft, accounting for 57.1% of all reported crimes (523 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Haverhill'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 Haverhill, MA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.