Crime in Brockton, Massachusetts
Major crime in Brockton is 28% above the U.S. rate per resident: 1.9 times for persons crimes and 14% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 7.6% 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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Burglary stands out most, at 2.7 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Brockton 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 Brockton
The middle half of Brockton residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 75 and 157; the typical (median) resident's is 110.
- 0–507.1%
- 50–10038.0%
- 100–20037.6%
- 200–40015.9%
- 400+1.4%
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 rose 7.6% 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.
Brockton against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
101 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Brockton; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Brockton has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Abington (4 mi), is 43% below Brockton's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Brockton
What are the most common crimes in Brockton?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 653 a year), aggravated assault (about 494 a year) and burglary (about 472 a year). Compared with the U.S., burglary stands out most: 2.7 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. Brockton's figures add up its 73 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Brockton has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 99.0% 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: 106,607. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Brockton, Massachusetts." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ma/brockton
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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