Springfield, MA has a F safety grade (5/100) with a violent crime rate of 891 per 100,000, 153% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Springfield, MA Crime Rate & Safety
At 155,491 residents, Springfield is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against MA and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Springfield, MA carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 153% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Springfield, MA shows violent crime at 891.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,835.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 153% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
F safety grade
891.4/100K violent
2835.5/100K property
+153% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Springfield, MA
Position in the state cohort
Springfield reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Massachusetts cities
At 891.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Springfield ranks 4 of 317 — above 313 of the 316 other Massachusetts cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +519.8% 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.
Comparable rate records
Springfield's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Massachusetts cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Springfield's 891.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Chelsea (978.9), Fall River (742.9), Holyoke (1041.0), Ware (694.7). 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.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 65.5% of reported property offenses in Springfield, against a cohort median of 78.1%. The remainder is burglary (488) and motor vehicle theft (1,034). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 968.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 891.4 in 2024 (-7.9%). The highest observed value was 968.1 in 2020 and the lowest 864.3 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Springfield'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Springfield's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 31.9 Census sq mi, Springfield logged 138.3 property and 43.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Springfield leans on larceny-theft at 50% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,186.
Violent offenses are 24% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (31.9 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-5.5%
3001.6 → 2835.5/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+0.6%
885.8 → 891.4/100K
Property offenses lead Springfield's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs MA
Property Crime
4,409
2835.5
1101.2
Larceny-Theft
2,887
1856.7
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
1,034
665
-
Burglary
488
313.8
-
Arson
45
28.9
-
Violent Crime
1,386
891.4
308.8
Aggravated Assault
971
624.5
-
Robbery
325
209
-
Rape
73
46.9
-
Murder
17
10.9
-
Springfield Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Springfield property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Springfield Police Department
Reporting agency for Springfield NIBRS-participating
Springfield Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Springfield's 5,795 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
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Massachusetts cities closest to Springfield in population. Their populations run from 95,573 to 212,425, against 155,491 here. Or use our
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Springfield at 891.4/100K violent and 2,835.5/100K property - matched below outside Massachusetts (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Springfield reported 1,386 violent crimes and 4,409 property crimes, for a total of 5,795 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Springfield?
From 2023 to 2024, Springfield's violent crime rate increased by 0.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 5.5%.
What is the most common crime in Springfield?
The most common crime type in Springfield is larceny-theft, accounting for 49.8% of all reported crimes (2,887 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Springfield's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Springfield, MA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.