CrimeMetric

Crime in Somerset, Massachusetts

Major crime in Somerset is 64% below the U.S. rate per resident: 41% lower for persons crimes and 69% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.6% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
36
64% below the U.S. rate
51% below the Massachusetts rate
down 7.6% in a year
Persons crimes
59
41% below the U.S. rate
39% below the Massachusetts rate
down 4.2% in a year
Property crimes
31
69% below the U.S. rate
54% below the Massachusetts rate
down 8.9% in a year
Social disorder
42
58% below the U.S. rate
37% below the Massachusetts rate
down 5.0% 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 Somerset is near or below the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Somerset 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 Somerset

The middle half of Somerset residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 21 and 39; the typical (median) resident's is 27. The citywide figure (36) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Somerset, 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.
  • 0–5084.8%
  • 50–10015.2%
  • 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 in the daytime

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm46
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am25
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm46
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am23
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.6% in a year; across Massachusetts it fell 5.7%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.6%MA -5.7%-10.6%MA -11.5%
Persons crimes-4.2%MA +0.2%+1.0%MA -0.8%
Property crimes-8.9%MA -7.4%-15.4%MA -14.9%
Social disorder-5.0%MA -1.6%-3.7%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

Somerset against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents

1,831 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Somerset; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Stafford, TX18,814164
Pinewood, FL18,861163
Coolidge, AZ18,915100
Tahlequah, OK18,842100
Liberal, KS18,87966
Somerset, MA18,86036

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

Nearby places

Somerset 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, Fall River (4 mi), is 3.7 times Somerset's rate.

Smith Mills12 mi360
Fall River4 mi133
Taunton11 mi75
Somerset36

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

Questions about crime in Somerset

What are the most common crimes in Somerset?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 46 a year), aggravated assault (about 27 a year) and shoplifting (about 13 a year). Compared with the U.S., intimidation stands out most: about 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. Somerset's figures add up its 12 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Somerset 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: 18,860. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100