Warwick, RI has a A safety grade (82/100) with a violent crime rate of 80 per 100,000, 77% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Warwick, RI Crime Rate & Safety
At 84,297 residents, Warwick is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against RI and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Warwick, RI carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 77% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Warwick, RI shows violent crime at 79.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,147.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 77% 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
79.5/100K violent
1147.1/100K property
-77% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Warwick, RI
Comparable rate records
Warwick's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Rhode Island cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Warwick's 79.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Narragansett (82.2), Barrington (75.2), East Providence (73.6), Lincoln (85.8). 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
Warwick sits mid-pack among comparable Rhode Island cities
At 79.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Warwick ranks 15 of 35 — above 20 of the 34 other Rhode Island cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +16.3% against the cohort median of 68.4. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 6.5% of the 1,034 Part I offenses reported in Warwick for 2024, against a median of 10.7% across comparable Rhode Island cities — a gap of 4.2 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 lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 81.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 79.5 in 2024 (-2.9%). The highest observed value was 81.9 in 2020 and the lowest 70.8 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Warwick'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.
Warwick's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 35 Census sq mi, Warwick logged 27.6 property and 1.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Warwick's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (78% of 1,034 offenses; mix index 6,286).
Violent offenses are only 6% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (35 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
+12.3%
70.8 → 79.5/100K
Property Crime Rate
-7.2%
1235.5 → 1147.1/100K
Property offenses lead Warwick's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
967
1147.1
1711
Larceny-Theft
811
962.1
-
Burglary
85
100.8
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
71
84.2
-
Arson
7
8.3
-
Violent Crime
67
79.5
352
Aggravated Assault
42
49.8
-
Rape
15
17.8
-
Robbery
8
9.5
-
Murder
2
2.4
-
Warwick Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Warwick 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 averages
Warwick Police Department
Reporting agency for Warwick NIBRS-participating
Warwick Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Warwick's 1,034 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 Rhode Island
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Rhode Island cities closest to Warwick in population. Their populations run from 31,675 to 83,815, against 84,297 here. Or use our
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Warwick at 79.5/100K violent and 1,147.1/100K property - matched below outside Rhode Island (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Warwick reported 67 violent crimes and 967 property crimes, for a total of 1,034 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Warwick?
From 2023 to 2024, Warwick's violent crime rate increased by 12.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 7.2%.
What is the most common crime in Warwick?
The most common crime type in Warwick is larceny-theft, accounting for 78.4% of all reported crimes (811 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Warwick'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 Warwick, RI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.