Crime in Fall River, Massachusetts
Major crime in Fall River is 33% above the U.S. rate per resident: 2.6 times for persons crimes and 6% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 2.2% 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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Aggravated assault stands out most, at 2.8 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Fall River 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 Fall River
The middle half of Fall River residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 88 and 150; the typical (median) resident's is 113. The citywide figure (133) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10042.8%
- 100–20045.9%
- 200–4008.6%
- 400+2.7%
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 2.2% 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.
Fall River against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
124 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Fall River; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Fall River has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Somerset (4 mi), is 73% below Fall River's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Fall River
What are the most common crimes in Fall River?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 620 a year), other larceny (about 478 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 414 a year). Compared with the U.S., aggravated assault stands out most: 2.8 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. Fall River's figures add up its 79 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Fall River has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 77.3% 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: 95,855. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Fall River, Massachusetts." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ma/fall-river
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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