Crime in Adams, Massachusetts
Major crime in Adams is 6% below the U.S. rate per resident: about the same for persons crimes and 7% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.1% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
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Rape / sexual assault stands out most, at 1.8 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Adams for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Adams
The middle half of Adams residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 59 and 138; the typical (median) resident's is 99.
- 0–5014.8%
- 50–10057.1%
- 100–20028.1%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.1% in a year; across Massachusetts it fell 5.7%
Change in expected crimes, with Massachusetts as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Adams against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
607 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Adams; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Adams has a higher major-crime index than 3 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, North Adams (4 mi), is 2.3 times Adams's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Adams
What are the most common crimes in Adams?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 34 a year), shoplifting (about 18 a year) and burglary (about 17 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 1.8 times the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Adams's figures add up its 6 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Adams has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 29.8% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 6,137. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Adams, Massachusetts." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ma/adams
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- North Adams4 mi221
- Williamstown7 mi45
- Pittsfield14 mi98
- Bennington, VT17 mi107
- Greenfield26 mi119
- Wynantskill, NY27 mi63
- Turners Falls29 mi67
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