Crime in Peabody, Massachusetts
Major crime in Peabody is 51% below the U.S. rate per resident: about the same for persons crimes and 62% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.9% 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 14% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Peabody 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 Peabody
The middle half of Peabody residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 23 and 52; the typical (median) resident's is 35. The citywide figure (49) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5071.2%
- 50–10020.0%
- 100–2008.9%
- 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 9.9% 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.
Peabody against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
471 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Peabody; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Peabody has a higher major-crime index than 3 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Danvers (3 mi), is 1.8 times Peabody's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Peabody
What are the most common crimes in Peabody?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 159 a year), aggravated assault (about 149 a year) and shoplifting (about 73 a year). Compared with the U.S., aggravated assault stands out most: 14% above 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. Peabody's figures add up its 34 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Peabody has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 3.1% 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: 56,667. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Peabody, Massachusetts." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ma/peabody
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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