Marshfield, MA has a A safety grade (84/100) with a violent crime rate of 145 per 100,000, 59% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Marshfield (26,238 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 2026-08-24
Marshfield, MA carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 59% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Marshfield, MA shows violent crime at 144.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 167.7 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 77.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 144.8 in 2024 (+87.3%). The highest observed value was 144.8 in 2024 and the lowest 77.3 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 46.3% of the 82 Part I offenses reported in Marshfield for 2024, against a median of 21.4% across comparable Massachusetts cities — a gap of 25.0 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Marshfield's 144.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Marblehead (145.3), Easton (146.5), Lancaster (142.8), Dudley (141.0). 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 144.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Marshfield ranks 159 of 317 — above 158 of the 316 other Massachusetts cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +0.5% against the cohort median of 144.1. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Marshfield's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row keeps violent and property totals in a closer balance. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters 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 5.1 Census sq mi, Marshfield logged 8.7 property and 7.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Marshfield leans on larceny-theft at 39% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,147.
Violent offenses are 46% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a mid-size city.
Marshfield offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (5.1 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 | 44 | 167.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 32 | 122 |
| Burglary | 9 | 34.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 3 | 11.4 |
| Arson | 2 | 7.6 |
| Violent Crime | 38 | 144.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 31 | 118.1 |
| Rape | 6 | 22.9 |
| Murder | 1 | 3.8 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 25,866 | 77.3 | 278.4 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 26,291 | 98.9 | 235.8 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 26,042 | 126.7 | 238.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 25,770 | 100.9 | 124.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 26,238 | 144.8 | 167.7 |
Marshfield Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Marshfield's 82 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 Marshfield in population. Their populations run from 25,181 to 27,280, against 26,238 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Marshfield sits at 144.8/100K violent (grade A); the Massachusetts cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Marshfield at 144.8/100K violent and 167.7/100K property - matched below outside Massachusetts (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
144.8/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
167.7/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+43.5% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Marshfield reported 38 violent crimes and 44 property crimes, for a total of 82 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Marshfield's violent crime rate increased by 43.5%, and the property crime rate increased by 35%.
The most common crime type in Marshfield is larceny-theft, accounting for 39.0% of all reported crimes (32 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Marshfield 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 Marshfield's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Marshfield, MA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Marshfield is scored in the mid-size municipal band (26,238 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.