Crime in North Adams, Massachusetts
Major crime in North Adams is 2.2 times the U.S. rate per resident: 3.7 times for persons crimes and 1.9 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 6.7% 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 4.5 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in North Adams 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 North Adams
The middle half of North Adams residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 107 and 333; the typical (median) resident's is 117. The citywide figure (221) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–1000.0%
- 100–20066.1%
- 200–40024.8%
- 400+9.1%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest in the daytime
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 6.7% 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.
North Adams against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
85 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than North Adams; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
North Adams 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, Adams (4 mi), is 57% below North Adams's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in North Adams
What are the most common crimes in North Adams?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 153 a year), aggravated assault (about 129 a year) and other larceny (about 122 a year). Compared with the U.S., aggravated assault stands out most: 4.5 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. North Adams's figures add up its 10 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- North Adams has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 0.0% 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: 12,349. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in North Adams, Massachusetts." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ma/north-adams
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