Crime in Lawrence, Massachusetts
Major crime in Lawrence is 35% below the U.S. rate per resident: 38% higher for persons crimes and 51% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 11.9% 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 1.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Lawrence 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 Lawrence
The middle half of Lawrence residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 41 and 74; the typical (median) resident's is 58.
- 0–5038.6%
- 50–10050.8%
- 100–20010.6%
- 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 11.9% 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.
Lawrence against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
397 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Lawrence; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Lawrence 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, Methuen Town (2 mi), is 24% below Lawrence's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Lawrence
What are the most common crimes in Lawrence?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 326 a year), theft from vehicle (about 254 a year) and other larceny (about 166 a year). Compared with the U.S., aggravated assault stands out most: 1.6 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. Lawrence's figures add up its 56 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Lawrence has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 25.4% 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: 89,916. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Lawrence, Massachusetts." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ma/lawrence
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Methuen Town2 mi50
- Andover4 mi38
- Haverhill6 mi62
- Lowell9 mi98
- Wilmington10 mi42
- Pinehurst12 mi25
- Reading12 mi34
- Lynnfield14 mi38