Crime in Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Major crime in Pittsfield is about the U.S. rate per resident: 2.0 times for persons crimes and 24% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 2.1% 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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Rape / sexual assault and aggravated assault stand out most, at about 2.2 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Pittsfield 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 Pittsfield
The middle half of Pittsfield residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 39 and 123; the typical (median) resident's is 71. The citywide figure (98) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5039.5%
- 50–10025.5%
- 100–20027.2%
- 200–4006.3%
- 400+1.5%
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 rose 2.1% 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.
Pittsfield against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
327 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Pittsfield; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Pittsfield has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Adams (14 mi), is about Pittsfield's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Pittsfield
What are the most common crimes in Pittsfield?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 213 a year), burglary (about 136 a year) and shoplifting (about 129 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 2.2 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. Pittsfield's figures add up its 45 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Pittsfield's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 36.6% 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: 42,742. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Pittsfield, Massachusetts." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ma/pittsfield
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Adams14 mi94
- North Adams18 mi221
- Williamstown18 mi45
- Great Barrington19 mi86
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- Rensselaer, NY28 mi57
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