Crime in Lowell, Massachusetts
Major crime in Lowell is about the U.S. rate per resident: 1.9 times for persons crimes and 22% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 13.4% 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 2.3 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Lowell 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 Lowell
The middle half of Lowell residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 55 and 117; the typical (median) resident's is 80. The citywide figure (98) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5019.9%
- 50–10049.0%
- 100–20026.0%
- 200–4004.3%
- 400+0.8%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 13.4% 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.
Lowell against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
160 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Lowell; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Lowell 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, Pinehurst (8 mi), is 75% below Lowell's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Lowell
What are the most common crimes in Lowell?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 627 a year), theft from vehicle (about 405 a year) and other larceny (about 351 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. Lowell's figures add up its 81 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Lowell's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 42.2% 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: 120,746. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Lowell, Massachusetts." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ma/lowell
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Pinehurst8 mi25
- Lawrence9 mi65
- Andover9 mi38
- Wilmington9 mi42
- Methuen Town9 mi50
- Hudson, NH10 mi117
- Burlington11 mi96
- Nashua, NH11 mi56