Crime in South Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Major crime in South Yarmouth is 45% below the U.S. rate per resident: 7% lower for persons crimes and 53% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.8% 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 stands out most, at 36% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in South Yarmouth 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 South Yarmouth
The middle half of South Yarmouth residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 25 and 94; the typical (median) resident's is 29. The citywide figure (55) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5062.5%
- 50–10017.8%
- 100–20019.8%
- 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 9.8% 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.
South Yarmouth against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,376 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than South Yarmouth; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
South Yarmouth has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, West Yarmouth (2 mi), is 28% above South Yarmouth's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in South Yarmouth
What are the most common crimes in South Yarmouth?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 42 a year), aggravated assault (about 27 a year) and shoplifting (about 15 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 36% 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. South Yarmouth's figures add up its 9 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- South Yarmouth 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: 11,806. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in South Yarmouth, Massachusetts." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ma/south-yarmouth
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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