Taunton, MA has a C safety grade (48/100) with a violent crime rate of 448 per 100,000, 27% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Taunton, MA Crime Rate & Safety
At 61,874 residents, Taunton 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.
Taunton, MA is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 27% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Taunton, MA shows violent crime at 447.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 834 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 27% 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.
C safety grade
447.7/100K violent
834/100K property
+27% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Taunton, MA
Position in the state cohort
Taunton reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Massachusetts cities
At 447.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Taunton ranks 21 of 317 — above 296 of the 316 other Massachusetts cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +211.3% 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
Taunton's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Massachusetts cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Taunton's 447.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Northampton (445.1), Revere (444.8), Gill (450.7), Athol (452.1). 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 make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 34.9% of the 793 Part I offenses reported in Taunton for 2024, against a median of 21.4% across comparable Massachusetts cities — a gap of 13.6 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 413.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 447.7 in 2024 (+8.3%). The highest observed value was 513.6 in 2023 and the lowest 387.4 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Taunton'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.
Taunton's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 46.7 Census sq mi, Taunton logged 11 property and 5.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Taunton leans on larceny-theft at 49% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,535.
Violent offenses are 35% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (46.7 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
-12.8%
513.6 → 447.7/100K
Property Crime Rate
-8%
906.3 → 834/100K
Property offenses lead Taunton's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
516
834
1711
Larceny-Theft
391
631.9
-
Burglary
72
116.4
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
53
85.7
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
277
447.7
352
Aggravated Assault
247
399.2
-
Robbery
17
27.5
-
Rape
12
19.4
-
Murder
1
1.6
-
Taunton Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Taunton 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
Taunton Police Department
Reporting agency for Taunton NIBRS-participating
Taunton Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Taunton's 793 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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In 2024, Taunton reported 277 violent crimes and 516 property crimes, for a total of 793 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Taunton?
From 2023 to 2024, Taunton's violent crime rate decreased by 12.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 8%.
What is the most common crime in Taunton?
The most common crime type in Taunton is larceny-theft, accounting for 49.3% of all reported crimes (391 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Taunton'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 Taunton, MA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.