Weymouth, MA has a B safety grade (71/100) with a violent crime rate of 224 per 100,000, 36% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Weymouth, MA Crime Rate & Safety
At 60,802 residents, Weymouth 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.
Weymouth, MA carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 36% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Weymouth, MA shows violent crime at 223.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 819.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 36% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
B safety grade
223.7/100K violent
819.1/100K property
-36% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Weymouth, MA
Comparable rate records
Weymouth's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Massachusetts cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Weymouth's 223.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Burlington (224.9), Great Barrington (222.3), Westborough (225.8), Somerville (221.4). 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
Weymouth sits mid-pack among comparable Massachusetts cities
At 223.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Weymouth ranks 89 of 317 — above 228 of the 316 other Massachusetts cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +55.5% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window close to where it started
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 224.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 223.7 in 2024 (-0.5%). The highest observed value was 324.8 in 2023 and the lowest 223.7 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Weymouth'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.
Weymouth's 2024 municipal footprint
Weymouth's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 634 offenses; mix index 4,210).
Violent offenses are 21% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (when validated); 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
-31.1%
324.8 → 223.7/100K
Property Crime Rate
-23.1%
1064.6 → 819.1/100K
Property offenses lead Weymouth's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
498
819.1
1711
Larceny-Theft
388
638.1
-
Burglary
57
93.7
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
53
87.2
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
136
223.7
352
Aggravated Assault
111
182.6
-
Rape
13
21.4
-
Robbery
12
19.7
-
Murder
0
0
-
Weymouth Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Weymouth 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
Weymouth Police Department
Reporting agency for Weymouth NIBRS-participating
Weymouth Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Weymouth's 634 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, Weymouth reported 136 violent crimes and 498 property crimes, for a total of 634 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Weymouth?
From 2023 to 2024, Weymouth's violent crime rate decreased by 31.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 23.1%.
What is the most common crime in Weymouth?
The most common crime type in Weymouth is larceny-theft, accounting for 61.2% of all reported crimes (388 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Weymouth'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 Weymouth, MA rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.