Tisbury, MA has a F safety grade (20/100) with a violent crime rate of 681 per 100,000, 94% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Tisbury is a small municipal reporter (4,990 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with MA and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Tisbury, MA is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 94% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Tisbury, MA shows violent crime at 681.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,402.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 94% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 389.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 681.4 in 2024 (+74.9%). The highest observed value was 681.4 in 2024 and the lowest 389.5 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 681.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Tisbury ranks 8 of 317 — above 309 of the 316 other Massachusetts cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +373.8% 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
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Tisbury's 681.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Greenfield (694.6), Ware (694.7), Webster (637.7), Boston (627.9). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 32.7% of the 104 Part I offenses reported in Tisbury for 2024, against a median of 21.4% across comparable Massachusetts cities — a gap of 11.3 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 64.3% of reported property offenses in Tisbury, against a cohort median of 78.1%. The remainder is burglary (23) and motor vehicle theft (2). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Tisbury'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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 6.5 Census sq mi, Tisbury logged 10.7 property and 5.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Tisbury leans on larceny-theft at 43% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,259.
Violent offenses are 33% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Tisbury offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (6.5 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 | 70 | 1402.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 45 | 901.8 |
| Burglary | 23 | 460.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 2 | 40.1 |
| Arson | 1 | 20 |
| Violent Crime | 34 | 681.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 31 | 621.2 |
| Rape | 2 | 40.1 |
| Robbery | 1 | 20 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 4,108 | 389.5 | 925 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 4,198 | 595.5 | 1071.9 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 5,079 | 669.4 | 807.2 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 4,958 | 645.4 | 887.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 4,990 | 681.4 | 1402.8 |
Tisbury Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Tisbury's 104 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 Tisbury in population. Their populations run from 4,798 to 5,204, against 4,990 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Tisbury sits at 681.4/100K violent (grade F); the Massachusetts cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Tisbury reported 34 violent crimes and 70 property crimes, for a total of 104 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Tisbury's violent crime rate increased by 5.6%, and the property crime rate increased by 58.1%.
The most common crime type in Tisbury is larceny-theft, accounting for 43.3% of all reported crimes (45 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Tisbury is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Tisbury's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Tisbury, MA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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