Provincetown, MA has a C safety grade (45/100) with a violent crime rate of 369 per 100,000, 5% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Provincetown is a small municipal reporter (3,795 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with MA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Provincetown, MA is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 5% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Provincetown, MA shows violent crime at 368.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,055.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 5% 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.
Small-count caution
Provincetown reported 14 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 3,795. 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 368.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Provincetown ranks 36 of 317 — above 281 of the 316 other Massachusetts cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +156.5% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 746.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 368.9 in 2024 (-50.6%). The highest observed value was 746.5 in 2020 and the lowest 158.9 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 Provincetown's 368.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Southbridge (366.5), Oak Bluffs (364.8), Palmer (375.0), East Brookfield (357.8). 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 15.2% of the 92 Part I offenses reported in Provincetown for 2024, against a median of 21.5% across comparable Massachusetts cities — a gap of 6.3 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 89.7% of reported property offenses in Provincetown, against a cohort median of 78.1%. The remainder is burglary (7) and motor vehicle theft (1). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Provincetown'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 14 reported violent incidents in a population of 3,795. 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 1.8 Census sq mi, Provincetown logged 43.6 property and 7.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Provincetown's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (76% of 92 offenses; mix index 5,985).
Violent offenses are 15% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Provincetown offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1.8 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 | 78 | 2055.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 70 | 1844.5 |
| Burglary | 7 | 184.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 26.4 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 14 | 368.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 10 | 263.5 |
| Rape | 4 | 105.4 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 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 | 2,947 | 746.5 | 1527 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 2,982 | 503 | 1777.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 3,775 | 158.9 | 794.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 3,766 | 451.4 | 1301.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 3,795 | 368.9 | 2055.3 |
Provincetown Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Provincetown's 92 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 Provincetown in population. Their populations run from 3,544 to 3,924, against 3,795 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Provincetown sits at 368.9/100K violent (grade C); the Massachusetts cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Provincetown reported 14 violent crimes and 78 property crimes, for a total of 92 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Provincetown's violent crime rate decreased by 18.3%, and the property crime rate increased by 58%.
The most common crime type in Provincetown is larceny-theft, accounting for 76.1% of all reported crimes (70 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Provincetown 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 Provincetown's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Provincetown, MA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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