Little Compton, RI has a A+ safety grade (92/100) with a violent crime rate of 28 per 100,000, 92% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Little Compton is a small municipal reporter (3,592 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with RI and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Little Compton, RI carries a PlainCrime A+ safety grade with violent crime 92% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Little Compton, RI shows violent crime at 27.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 612.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 92% 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.
Small-count caution
Little Compton reported 1 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 3,592. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 144.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 27.8 in 2024 (-80.7%). The highest observed value was 167.4 in 2021 and the lowest 0.0 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 27.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Little Compton ranks 31 of 35 — above 4 of the 34 other Rhode Island cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -60.9% against the cohort median of 71.2. 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 Little Compton's 27.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Bristol (27.0), East Greenwich (33.4), Foster (21.9), Smithfield (35.7). 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 are 4.3% of the 23 Part I offenses reported in Little Compton for 2024, against a median of 10.7% across comparable Rhode Island cities — a gap of 6.4 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.
Property counts dominate Little Compton'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.
Based on 1 reported violent incidents in a population of 3,592. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
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 20.5 Census sq mi, Little Compton logged 1.1 property and 0 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Little Compton's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (78% of 23 offenses; mix index 6,333).
Violent offenses are only 4% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Little Compton offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (20.5 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 | 22 | 612.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 18 | 501.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 3 | 83.5 |
| Burglary | 1 | 27.8 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 1 | 27.8 |
| Rape | 1 | 27.8 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
| Aggravated Assault | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 3,463 | 144.4 | 259.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 3,584 | 167.4 | 613.8 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 3,599 | 0 | 250.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 3,588 | 55.7 | 278.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 3,592 | 27.8 | 612.5 |
Little Compton Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Little Compton's 23 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 Little Compton in population. Their populations run from 4,569 to 11,286, against 3,592 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, Little Compton reported 1 violent crimes and 22 property crimes, for a total of 23 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Little Compton's violent crime rate decreased by 50.1%, and the property crime rate increased by 119.8%.
The most common crime type in Little Compton is larceny-theft, accounting for 78.3% of all reported crimes (18 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Little Compton 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 Little Compton's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Little Compton, RI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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