City Population Violent / 100K Property / 100K Grade
Granville 1,553 0 257.6 A+
New Marlborough 1,495 133.8 133.8 A
Egremont 1,371 218.8 364.7 A
Royalston 1,308 152.9 0 A
Chilmark 1,266 158 237 A
Pelham 1,259 79.4 0 A+
Chester 1,231 0 0 A+
Worthington 1,175 0 0 A+
Chesterfield 1,169 0 171.1 A+
New Braintree 1,012 98.8 0 A+
Goshen 939 0 0 A+
Montgomery 828 0 0 A+
Warwick 774 129.2 0 A
Savoy 647 0 0 A+
Tolland 477 0 209.6 A+
Aquinnah 456 219.3 0 A
Rowe 420 0 238.1 A+
Tyringham 417 0 719.4 A+
Showing cities 301–318 of 318 in Massachusetts, by population. See the Massachusetts safest and most dangerous city rankings, or the Massachusetts crime overview.

How These City Grades Are Calculated

Each grade weighs a city's violent crime rate (70%) and property crime rate (30%) against the national averages, drawn from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States, Table 8 for 2024. Rates use (offenses ÷ population) × 100,000.

UCR participation is voluntary, so not every Massachusetts city reports every year, and small-population cities can show volatile rates where a single incident moves the per-capita figure sharply. Read the full methodology for the scoring formula and limitations.