Smithfield, RI has a A safety grade (88/100) with a violent crime rate of 36 per 100,000, 90% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Smithfield (22,414 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then RI and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Smithfield, RI carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 90% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Smithfield, RI shows violent crime at 35.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 928 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 90% 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
Smithfield reported 8 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 22,414. 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 95.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 35.7 in 2024 (-62.8%). The highest observed value was 95.9 in 2020 and the lowest 35.7 in 2024. 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 Smithfield's 35.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are East Greenwich (33.4), Burrillville (41.8), Little Compton (27.8), Bristol (27.0). 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 35.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Smithfield ranks 29 of 35 — above 6 of the 34 other Rhode Island cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -49.8% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 3.7% of the 216 Part I offenses reported in Smithfield for 2024, against a median of 10.7% across comparable Rhode Island cities — a gap of 7.0 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 93.3% of reported property offenses in Smithfield, against a cohort median of 79.8%. The remainder is burglary (9) and motor vehicle theft (5). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Smithfield'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 8 reported violent incidents in a population of 22,414. 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 26.2 Census sq mi, Smithfield logged 7.9 property and 0.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Smithfield's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (90% of 216 offenses; mix index 8,096).
Violent offenses are only 4% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Smithfield offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (26.2 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 | 208 | 928 |
| Larceny-Theft | 194 | 865.5 |
| Burglary | 9 | 40.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 5 | 22.3 |
| Arson | 2 | 8.9 |
| Violent Crime | 8 | 35.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 4 | 17.8 |
| Rape | 3 | 13.4 |
| Robbery | 1 | 4.5 |
| Murder | 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 | 21,893 | 95.9 | 653.2 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 22,676 | 39.7 | 714.4 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 21,762 | 41.4 | 523.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 21,997 | 50 | 731.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 22,414 | 35.7 | 928 |
Smithfield Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Smithfield's 216 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 Smithfield in population. Their populations run from 16,728 to 24,957, against 22,414 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Smithfield sits at 35.7/100K violent (grade A); the Rhode Island cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Smithfield at 35.7/100K violent and 928/100K property - matched below outside Rhode Island (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
35.7/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
928/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Smithfield reported 8 violent crimes and 208 property crimes, for a total of 216 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Smithfield's violent crime rate decreased by 28.6%, and the property crime rate increased by 26.8%.
The most common crime type in Smithfield is larceny-theft, accounting for 89.8% of all reported crimes (194 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Smithfield 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 Smithfield's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Smithfield, RI 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. Smithfield is scored in the mid-size municipal band (22,414 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.