South Hadley, MA is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 45% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, South Hadley, MA shows violent crime at 193.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 714 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 45% 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.
A safety grade
193.3/100K violent
714/100K property
-45% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for South Hadley, MA
Comparable rate records
South Hadley's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Massachusetts cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to South Hadley's 193.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Sunderland (192.8), Westfield (191.4), Avon (187.6), Nantucket (202.9). 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
South Hadley sits mid-pack among comparable Massachusetts cities
At 193.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, South Hadley ranks 108 of 317 — above 209 of the 316 other Massachusetts cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +34.4% 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 232.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 193.3 in 2024 (-17.0%). The highest observed value was 232.8 in 2020 and the lowest 136.6 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate South Hadley'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.
South Hadley's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 17.7 Census sq mi, South Hadley logged 7.5 property and 2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
South Hadley's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 169 offenses; mix index 4,304).
Violent offenses are 21% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (17.7 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+41.5%
136.6 → 193.3/100K
Property Crime Rate
-10.6%
798.7 → 714/100K
Property offenses lead South Hadley's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
133
714
1711
Larceny-Theft
103
553
-
Burglary
21
112.7
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
9
48.3
-
Arson
2
10.7
-
Violent Crime
36
193.3
352
Aggravated Assault
34
182.5
-
Rape
1
5.4
-
Robbery
1
5.4
-
Murder
0
0
-
South Hadley Crime Trend (2020-2024)
South Hadley property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
South Hadley: 193 violent, 714 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Pembroke: 91 violent, 355 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Somerset: 151 violent, 567 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Sharon: 37 violent, 240 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Foxborough: 282 violent, 617 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Ashland: 95 violent, 679 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Winthrop: 158 violent, 523 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Concord: 49 violent, 540 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Southbridge: 367 violent, 635 property per 100,000 (grade C)
South Hadley Police Department
Reporting agency for South Hadley NIBRS-participating
South Hadley Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind South Hadley's 169 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Massachusetts
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South Hadley at 193.3/100K violent and 714/100K property - matched below outside Massachusetts (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, South Hadley reported 36 violent crimes and 133 property crimes, for a total of 169 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in South Hadley?
From 2023 to 2024, South Hadley's violent crime rate increased by 41.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 10.6%.
What is the most common crime in South Hadley?
The most common crime type in South Hadley is larceny-theft, accounting for 60.9% of all reported crimes (103 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: South Hadley 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 South Hadley, MA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.