Woonsocket, RI has a C safety grade (48/100) with a violent crime rate of 391 per 100,000, 11% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Woonsocket (43,776 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then RI and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Woonsocket, RI carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 11% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Woonsocket, RI shows violent crime at 390.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,500.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 11% 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 390.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Woonsocket ranks 1 of 35 — above 34 of the 34 other Rhode Island cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +471.5% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Woonsocket's 390.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Central Falls (323.4), Pawtucket (307.6), Providence (276.7), West Warwick (198.9). 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 20.7% of the 828 Part I offenses reported in Woonsocket for 2024, against a median of 10.3% across comparable Rhode Island cities — a gap of 10.4 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
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 501.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 390.6 in 2024 (-22.1%). The highest observed value was 538.6 in 2021 and the lowest 390.6 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Woonsocket'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 7.7 Census sq mi, Woonsocket logged 84.8 property and 22.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Woonsocket leans on larceny-theft at 60% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,967.
Violent offenses are 21% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Woonsocket offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (7.7 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 657 | 1500.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 495 | 1130.8 |
| Burglary | 81 | 185 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 81 | 185 |
| Arson | 16 | 36.5 |
| Violent Crime | 171 | 390.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 108 | 246.7 |
| Robbery | 35 | 80 |
| Rape | 26 | 59.4 |
| Murder | 2 | 4.6 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 41,693 | 501.3 | 1839.6 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 43,072 | 538.6 | 1764.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 42,925 | 449.6 | 1807.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 42,973 | 435.2 | 1608 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 43,776 | 390.6 | 1500.8 |
Woonsocket Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Woonsocket's 828 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 Rhode Island cities closest to Woonsocket in population. Their populations run from 24,957 to 47,555, against 43,776 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Woonsocket sits at 390.6/100K violent (grade C); the Rhode Island cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Woonsocket at 390.6/100K violent and 1,500.8/100K property - matched below outside Rhode Island (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
390.6/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,500.8/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-10.2% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Woonsocket reported 171 violent crimes and 657 property crimes, for a total of 828 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Woonsocket's violent crime rate decreased by 10.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 6.7%.
The most common crime type in Woonsocket is larceny-theft, accounting for 59.8% of all reported crimes (495 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Woonsocket 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 Woonsocket's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Woonsocket, RI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Woonsocket is scored in the mid-size municipal band (43,776 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.