CrimeMetric

Crime in Rockport, Massachusetts

Major crime in Rockport is 83% below the U.S. rate per resident: 73% lower for persons crimes and 86% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.7% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
17
83% below the U.S. rate
77% below the Massachusetts rate
down 7.7% in a year
Persons crimes
27
73% below the U.S. rate
72% below the Massachusetts rate
down 4.7% in a year
Property crimes
14
86% below the U.S. rate
79% below the Massachusetts rate
down 8.8% in a year
Social disorder
21
79% below the U.S. rate
68% below the Massachusetts rate
down 5.8% in a year

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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Crime by type

Every crime type in Rockport is near or below the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Rockport for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Rockport

The middle half of Rockport residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 8 and 26; the typical (median) resident's is 17.

Map of Rockport, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–50100.0%
  • 50–1000.0%
  • 100–2000.0%
  • 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.

When it happens

Highest on weekday daytimes

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm20
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am14
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm18
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am13
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.7% in a year; across Massachusetts it fell 5.7%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.7%MA -5.7%-11.2%MA -11.5%
Persons crimes-4.7%MA +0.2%-0.5%MA -0.8%
Property crimes-8.8%MA -7.4%-15.6%MA -14.9%
Social disorder-5.8%MA -1.6%-5.0%MA -4.6%

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.

Similar-size places

Rockport against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents

1,745 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Rockport; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:

Avondale, LA4,913102
Tulia, TX4,91760
Rockport, MA4,91317

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Rockport has a lower major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Gloucester (3 mi), is 2.5 times Rockport's rate.

Danvers17 mi88
Salem17 mi64
Swampscott19 mi58
Salisbury17 mi38
Beverly14 mi32
Marblehead16 mi31
Ipswich11 mi24
Rockport17

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Rockport

What are the most common crimes in Rockport?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 4 a year), aggravated assault (about 3 a year) and shoplifting (about 2 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 68% below 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. Rockport's figures add up its 5 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Rockport 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: 4,913. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Rockport, Massachusetts." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ma/rockport

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100