CrimeMetric

Crime in Stoneham, Massachusetts

Major crime in Stoneham is 49% below the U.S. rate per resident: 64% lower for persons crimes and 46% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.2% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
51
49% below the U.S. rate
30% below the Massachusetts rate
down 8.2% in a year
Persons crimes
37
64% below the U.S. rate
62% below the Massachusetts rate
down 4.3% in a year
Property crimes
54
46% below the U.S. rate
21% below the Massachusetts rate
down 8.7% in a year
Social disorder
25
75% below the U.S. rate
62% 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 Stoneham is near or below the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Stoneham 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 Stoneham

The middle half of Stoneham residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 22 and 53; the typical (median) resident's is 35. The citywide figure (51) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Stoneham, 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. Tap one to compare it. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5072.1%
  • 50–10021.6%
  • 100–2000.0%
  • 200–4006.3%
  • 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 6pm67
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am34
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm63
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am29
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 8.2% in a year; across Massachusetts it fell 5.7%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-8.2%MA -5.7%-12.3%MA -11.5%
Persons crimes-4.3%MA +0.2%+3.3%MA -0.8%
Property crimes-8.7%MA -7.4%-14.6%MA -14.9%
Social disorder-5.8%MA -1.6%-1.7%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

Stoneham against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents

709 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Stoneham; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:

Culpeper, VA25,09081
Clifton, CO25,02864
Stoneham, MA25,01751
Imperial, CA25,12019

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

Nearby places

Stoneham 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, Wakefield (2 mi), is 41% below Stoneham's rate.

Saugus5 mi78
Medford4 mi65
Malden4 mi64
Woburn3 mi59
Stoneham51
Melrose2 mi39
Lynnfield5 mi38
Reading3 mi34
Wakefield2 mi30

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

Questions about crime in Stoneham

What are the most common crimes in Stoneham?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 87 a year), burglary (about 43 a year) and shoplifting (about 37 a year). Compared with the U.S., burglary 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. Stoneham's figures add up its 17 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Stoneham 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: 25,017. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100