Marblehead, MA has a A safety grade (80/100) with a violent crime rate of 145 per 100,000, 59% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Marblehead (20,645 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then MA and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Marblehead, MA is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 59% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Marblehead, MA shows violent crime at 145.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 576.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 59% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 73.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 145.3 in 2024 (+98.8%). The highest observed value was 145.3 in 2024 and the lowest 69.0 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Marblehead's 145.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Marshfield (144.8), Easton (146.5), Lancaster (142.8), Medfield (148.9). 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
At 145.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Marblehead ranks 158 of 317 — above 159 of the 316 other Massachusetts cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +1.0% 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.
Property counts dominate Marblehead'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.
Across 4.4 Census sq mi, Marblehead logged 27.2 property and 6.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Marblehead's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (66% of 149 offenses; mix index 4,760).
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Marblehead offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4.4 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 | 119 | 576.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 99 | 479.5 |
| Burglary | 14 | 67.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 6 | 29.1 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 30 | 145.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 22 | 106.6 |
| Rape | 7 | 33.9 |
| Robbery | 1 | 4.8 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 20,525 | 73.1 | 618.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 20,791 | 72.1 | 514.6 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 20,289 | 69 | 453.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 20,222 | 118.7 | 623.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 20,645 | 145.3 | 576.4 |
Marblehead Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Marblehead's 149 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 Marblehead in population. Their populations run from 20,171 to 21,304, against 20,645 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Marblehead sits at 145.3/100K violent (grade A); the Massachusetts cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Marblehead at 145.3/100K violent and 576.4/100K property - matched below outside Massachusetts (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
145.3/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
576.4/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Marblehead reported 30 violent crimes and 119 property crimes, for a total of 149 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Marblehead's violent crime rate increased by 22.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 7.5%.
The most common crime type in Marblehead is larceny-theft, accounting for 66.4% of all reported crimes (99 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Marblehead 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Marblehead's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Marblehead, MA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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