Crime in Fitchburg, Massachusetts
Major crime in Fitchburg is 13% above the U.S. rate per resident: 2.0 times for persons crimes and 7% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 1.6% 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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Aggravated assault and vandalism stand out most, at about 2.3 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Fitchburg 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 Fitchburg
The middle half of Fitchburg residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 68 and 121; the typical (median) resident's is 100.
- 0–5011.3%
- 50–10033.8%
- 100–20045.7%
- 200–4009.3%
- 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 1.6% 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.
Fitchburg against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
248 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Fitchburg; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Fitchburg 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, Leominster (4 mi), is about Fitchburg's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Fitchburg
What are the most common crimes in Fitchburg?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 227 a year), other larceny (about 201 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 200 a year). Compared with the U.S., aggravated assault stands out most: 2.3 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. Fitchburg's figures add up its 33 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Fitchburg has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 34.9% 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: 42,362. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Fitchburg, Massachusetts." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ma/fitchburg
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Leominster4 mi107
- Gardner9 mi57
- Ayer11 mi55
- Winchendon14 mi60
- Hudson18 mi47
- Milford, NH19 mi26
- Nashua, NH20 mi56
- Maynard20 mi47