Crime in Worcester, Massachusetts
Major crime in Worcester is 5% above the U.S. rate per resident: 1.8 times for persons crimes and 11% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.4% 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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Aggravated assault stands out most, at 2.0 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Worcester 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 Worcester
The middle half of Worcester residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 53 and 119; the typical (median) resident's is 79. The citywide figure (105) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5022.8%
- 50–10042.6%
- 100–20027.2%
- 200–4005.1%
- 400+2.3%
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 7.4% 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.
Worcester against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
143 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Worcester; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Worcester has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Westborough (10 mi), is 47% below Worcester's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Worcester
What are the most common crimes in Worcester?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 1,004 a year), other larceny (about 779 a year) and shoplifting (about 728 a year). Compared with the U.S., aggravated assault stands out most: 2.0 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. Worcester's figures add up its 146 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Worcester has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 4.9% 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: 216,412. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Worcester, Massachusetts." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ma/worcester
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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- Spencer10 mi24
- Oxford11 mi57
- Whitinsville13 mi28
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- Hudson15 mi47
- Webster16 mi79
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