Crime in Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Updated ·Vorp Labs
The model puts major crime in Yarmouth at 48% below the U.S. rate per resident: 12% lower for persons crimes and 56% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.7% from a year earlier.
- Modeled from FBI crime data for the police agencies serving Yarmouth. Where an agency didn't report to the FBI, its totals are estimated from its past reports or similar agencies.
- The model estimates about 8.9 major crimes per 1,000 residents a year (2.8 violent, 6.1 property), against 17.2 for the U.S.
- By the model's major-crime rate per resident, Yarmouth is lower than 44% of the 193 other Massachusetts places and 57% of the 8,446 other places nationwide on CrimeMetric.
Where these numbers come from
The estimates start from what police agencies report to the FBI, modeled across Yarmouth's 22 census block groups for 25,113 residents. How Massachusetts residents' crime totals reach the FBI: detailed incident reports for 98.4%, summary counts only for 0.2% and no reporting agency of their own for 1.3% (shares of 2020 residents). Sources · Method
- Year: many show an agency's last full FBI year (often two years back). These figures are the model's estimate for the current year, release 2026-11-10.
- Crimes counted: some add simple assault, vandalism or drug offenses to "violent" or "property" crime; here major crime is persons plus property crime, and social disorder is separate.
- Area: an agency's totals cover its jurisdiction, which can differ from the city's limits; these are summed over the block groups inside Yarmouth.
- Scale: a grade or a 1-to-100 score ranks places against each other; a rate per 1,000 residents and an index against the U.S. rate don't.
Rates are the model's estimates of reported crime per 1,000 residents a year. Index: 100 is the U.S. rate per resident; 200 is twice it. How we calculated this
How crime varies across Yarmouth
Half of residents live where the major-crime index is between 25 and 82.
- 0–5066.4%
- 50–10019.6%
- 100–20014.1%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+0.0%
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Rape / sexual assault stands out most, at 33% above the U.S. rate
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
Highest on weekday daytimes
100 is the U.S. rate, same hours.
Expected major crime fell 9.7% in a year; across Massachusetts it fell 5.7%
Change in the model's expected crimes, not a count of reports; Massachusetts in gray. 2031 is a model projection, not tested against past years.
Yarmouth against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
691 of the 1,120 other places of this size have a major-crime index at least 15% above Yarmouth's, and 168 are within 15% of it; the middle of the group is 73. The 9 nearest in population:
U.S. = 100. Residents in gray.
Yarmouth's major-crime index is higher than 1, lower than 3 and within 15% of 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The closest, South Yarmouth (1 mi), is about Yarmouth's rate.
U.S. = 100. Miles between population centers.
Questions about crime in Yarmouth
Is Yarmouth safe?
Yarmouth's major-crime index is 52, 48% below the U.S. rate per resident and lower than 44% of the 193 other Massachusetts places on CrimeMetric: violent crimes against people are 12% below the U.S. rate, and property crimes 56% below the U.S. rate.
What is the crime rate in Yarmouth?
The model expects about 224 major crimes a year in Yarmouth, about 8.9 per 1,000 residents, 48% below the U.S. rate.
Is crime going up or down in Yarmouth?
Expected major crimes in Yarmouth are down 9.7% from a year earlier; across Massachusetts they're down 5.7%.
What are the most common crimes in Yarmouth?
By the model's expected count, the most common crimes against people and property are other larceny (about 85 a year), aggravated assault (about 56 a year) and shoplifting (about 27 a year).
Are car break-ins common in Yarmouth?
The model expects about 10 thefts from vehicles a year in Yarmouth, 85% below the U.S. rate per resident.
Are car thefts common in Yarmouth?
The model expects about 8 motor vehicle thefts a year in Yarmouth, 81% below the U.S. rate per resident.
Is Yarmouth safe at night?
The model's major-crime index is 38 on Sunday to Thursday nights from 6pm to 6am, against 67 at its highest in the daytime; 100 is the U.S. rate for the same hours. That's a citywide estimate per resident for those hours: it can't speak to a particular street, venue or evening. For one address, use the address lookup on this page.
Is crime in Yarmouth higher than the Massachusetts average?
Yarmouth's major-crime index is 52, 29% below the Massachusetts rate per resident. Massachusetts as a whole is 74, where 100 is the U.S. rate.
How does crime in Yarmouth compare with South Yarmouth?
South Yarmouth, 1 mile away, has a major-crime index of 54, about Yarmouth's rate per resident. Yarmouth's is 52.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI or estimated where it didn't report, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Yarmouth's figures add up its 22 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Yarmouth has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 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: 25,113. Model updated Nov 10, 2026. Release 2026-11-10
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Yarmouth, Massachusetts." Vorp Labs, updated November 9, 2026 (model Nov 10, 2026). https://crimemetric.com/ma/yarmouth
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