Stoneham, MA has a A safety grade (80/100) with a violent crime rate of 151 per 100,000, 57% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Stoneham (23,173 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 2026-09-05
Stoneham, MA is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 57% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Stoneham, MA shows violent crime at 151 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 612.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 57% 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 78.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 151.0 in 2024 (+93.4%). The highest observed value was 211.8 in 2022 and the lowest 78.1 in 2020. 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 Stoneham's 151.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Dover (151.1), Somerset (151.2), Stockbridge (150.9), Salem (152.3). 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 151.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Stoneham ranks 153 of 317 — above 164 of the 316 other Massachusetts cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +5.0% 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.
Property counts dominate Stoneham'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.
Across 6 Census sq mi, Stoneham logged 23.6 property and 5.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Stoneham's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (59% of 177 offenses; mix index 4,105).
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Stoneham offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (6 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 | 142 | 612.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 105 | 453.1 |
| Burglary | 28 | 120.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 9 | 38.8 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 35 | 151 |
| Aggravated Assault | 31 | 133.8 |
| Rape | 3 | 12.9 |
| Robbery | 1 | 4.3 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 24,329 | 78.1 | 657.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 24,439 | 118.7 | 593.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 22,660 | 211.8 | 825.2 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 22,554 | 115.3 | 833.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 23,173 | 151 | 612.8 |
Stoneham Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Stoneham's 177 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 Stoneham in population. Their populations run from 22,591 to 24,946, against 23,173 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Stoneham sits at 151/100K violent (grade A); the Massachusetts cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Stoneham at 151/100K violent and 612.8/100K property - matched below outside Massachusetts (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
151/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
612.8/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Stoneham reported 35 violent crimes and 142 property crimes, for a total of 177 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Stoneham's violent crime rate increased by 31%, and the property crime rate decreased by 26.5%.
The most common crime type in Stoneham is larceny-theft, accounting for 59.3% of all reported crimes (105 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Stoneham 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 Stoneham's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Stoneham, MA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
Bulk download: city crime dataset (CSV/JSON)
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